Later this week here at THB I’ll be publishing two important pieces — one a guest post from a climate scientist on how his ...

It would a threat to our prosperity if the Department of Commerce reported suspect trade and investment data but, if it happens, we can check Eurostat and Canada’s trade numbers. Data falsification ...

To address the classical teacher pipeline challenge, policymakers should remove credentialing barriers, and schools should expand teacher fellowship programs, recruit from a wider range of colleges ...

It was always a mistake to trust that colleges would honor the Supreme Court’s ruling that race-based preferences in admissions are unconstitutional.

The people we live near have long been the first line of support during a crisis, the ones we lean on when institutions falter. But that foundational sense of mutual reliance is fraying.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will reduce federal spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $186.7 billion over ...

Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private ...

Kent’s career in higher education policy renders him ideally suited to confront the unique challenges the Department of Education faces today.

Steve Kamin says EMEs are likely to escape the worst outcomes from capricious and chaotic trade policy Since president Trump declared ‘Liberation Day’ on April 2, the dark clouds already looming on ...

The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...

From an economic perspective, unintended consequences turn tidy government plans into costly messes. Such interventions often create economic distortions that government planners couldn't foresee ...

The reactions to the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) report released last week have been just as interesting as the report itself. The degree of vitriol and freak-out by activist climate scientists ...