Employer preferences for graduates from 34 elite universities harms social mobility and diversity of thought in the workplace.

I wrote about the grid defection discussion circa 2014, motivated by Elisa Wood’s webinar with Seyyed Ali Sadat and Joshua Pearce of Western Ontario University on their new paper in Solar Energy.

Eight years ago, President-elect Donald Trump nominated school choice advocate Betsy DeVos for secretary of education. Within days, major media outlets seemed intent on competing to see who could ...

This report attempts to sketch a trajectory for Indian economic performance over the next decade. As China has faded, a number of analysts have focused on India as a replacement, as if wishing for ...

And why the “Social Security Fairness Act” is anything but. New reports indicate that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer (NY) has promised a vote by December 20 on the Social Security ...

The Syrian civil war decimated the country. It killed over 600,000 people and displaced more than half the population, with 7 million displaced internally and more than 6 million fleeing into ...

Alan Borsuk’s important essay dives deeply into the complexities and challenges of education reform, raising important questions about decades of education policymaking. This topic—how ...

In a shocking development last week, Amnesty International effectively exonerated Israel of genocide. This was easy to miss, and not just because of the recent crush of news. Amnesty’s report ...

In 1947, the College Board opened an office in Berkeley, California. Previously, from the turn of the century onward, the organization had been administering entrance examinations for schools in ...

Co-hosts John Fortier and Don Palmer are joined by Cord Byrd, Florida’s Secretary of State. About the Speakers John C. Fortier Senior Fellow ...

The game of reading political outcomes is more art than science, especially at the national level. Election results turn on hundreds or thousands of policy and campaign margins. There is no one ...

The Middle East has long been a source of misery for Washington. It could be a land of opportunity for Donald Trump. In his first term as president, Trump brokered diplomatic détentes between ...