Adoption of electric cars has taken off globally — electric vehicles (EVs) made up a quarter of new car sales in the world in 2025. The United States was in the lead in launching the modern electric ...

An ongoing dispute between the United States and various European Union countries centers on the latter’s imposing digital services taxes (DSTs). These are taxes on the gross revenues of companies ...

Amid the spike in oil prices and the impact on international supply chains sparked by the Iran War, the Trump Administration announced a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act to “mitigate the short-term ...

The rate of child poverty in the United States precipitously dropped in 2021 only to rise in more recent years. The drop occurred during a period of large temporary expansions of social support ...

Brexit, the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union, is a rare contemporary example of a major developed economy raising trade barriers and more generally pulling back from ...

China finished 2025 with a world record trade surplus of $1.19 trillion. This surplus reflects China’s remarkable dominance as an exporter of manufactured goods. But it is also a result of weak ...

Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on a widespread perception that AI is a truly transformative technology that will drive economic growth for many ...

Available evidence does not support the claim that 70% of undocumented immigrants arrested by ICE were convicted or charged with a crime. According to data compiled by Syracuse University’s ...

College sports is undergoing an era of rapid and profound transformation with a number of major changes taking place concurrently. The settlement of an antitrust suit that opened the door to allowing ...

Immigration has historically been an important driver of U.S. population growth, particularly in recent decades as immigration numbers surged and fertility rates of native-born Americans declined. As ...

There has been growing concern about the affordability of homeownership in the United States, particularly for first-time homebuyers. The rapid rise in house prices during the pandemic has been ...

The U.S. agricultural sector is facing multiple challenges. High input and production costs together with low commodity prices for some of the country’s major crops — including soy, corn and wheat — ...