Tag: economy

Because unions provide a voice on wages, safety, and other issues, they empower workers at a moment when a depressing sense of helplessness haunts many other Americans.

Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.

Russia’s challenge to prevailing IP and copyright norms is central to its pursuit of technological sovereignty. Global fragmentation and Western divisions have given Moscow space to test the system’s limits without fully abandoning it.

The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands.

As administration officials point to consumer spending as evidence of confidence, polling, inflation data, and rising credit card delinquencies suggest many Americans are experiencing a very different economy.

The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.

The United States remains an economy governed by decree and challenged by decree—a superpower struggling to define who is in charge of its checkbook.

While some states will reach a $15 minimum wage for the first time, other states will have a minimum wage of $15 or higher as of January 1, 2026.

While everyday Americans struggle, Trump prefers to party with the rich.

We’re continuing to study how cultural values, social systems and moral intuitions shape people’s judgments of fairness and excess—from views of wealth and ambition to knowledge and AI computing power.