America has a plastic problem. Everybody knows it. The images are everywhere overflowing landfills, ocean-bound waste, r ...

The economist Arindrajit Dube believes that the answer to fixing America’s wage problem is to empower workers and set ...

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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Despite low inflation and rising wages, Americans remain furious about high prices. There’s an odd but effective solution ...

There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap the grid, their giant batteries ...

Julia R. Cartwright is a senior research fellow in law and economics at the American Institute for Economic Research. Myriad forces are driving America’s housing crunch, but one of the most ...

For more than a decade, drug shortages have been treated as a manufacturing problem. When shortages occur, the conversation usually turns to plant shutdowns, quality observations, ...