Four Southern states are boosting student achievement and offering lessons the nation can’t ignore.

FAIRFAX, Virginia — County prosecutors dropped the lone prostitution-related charge against an apparent brothel on a residential street in Falls Church, instead slapping the proprietor with a ...

On the eve of World War I, when it was already apparent that the geopolitical order was crumbling, the stock market remained buoyant. There is every reason to believe that the US stock market’s ...

Between 1986 and 2024, the Qatari government poured $6.3 billion into American universities, with fully one-third of that lucre handed over since 2021. Is that money related to the antisemitic ...

Two curriculum publishers explain what gets in the way of giving teachers the best materials possible.

AI’s story will be about productivity. Generative AI is projected to raise labor productivity in advanced economies by roughly 15 percent once integrated into daily work, improving incomes and living ...

Research Fellow Arthur Gailes discusses Bureau of Land Management land sale on Courthouse News’ ‘Sidebar’ podcast.

America’s highly compromised public finances require that it do everything to promote economic growth to help manage the debt burden. History is likely to harshly judge the Trump 2.0 administration’s ...

As students begin to head back to school, American higher education is in its most fraught position in recent memory. Most prominent among the challenges is President Trump’s pressure campaign ...

Iraq is at an inflection point; whether or not its new generation of politicians will put the state above their immediate ambitions, however, remains to be seen.

What do cities reveal about us? Not just our engineering or art, but our longings—what we value, what we revere, how we choose to live together. William Frej’s new book, Unforgotten: Ancient ...

Yes, we can. But why don’t journalists do it? The reason this Substack exists is to inform the public and to promote good policy. It’s also to vent my frustrations with bad journalism, particularly ...