Risky financial maneuvers and mountains of debt mean the AI economy is in trouble, says Vanderbilt’s Asad Ramzanali.

This week’s momentous Supreme Court decision, and four previous voting rights cases from the past 13 years, eviscerate the ...

Mallory McMorrow faces scrutiny over old posts. Will Democrats apply the same standard they used for Graham Platner?

Despite Trump’s punitive spectacles, criminal justice reform efforts persist across states, and there’s hope for effective policies.

Colleges lobbied against a bill requiring them to use a uniform financial aid offer letter to help families more easily ...

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The Class of 2026 is graduating into a democracy in freefall. Their commencement speakers owe them more than recycled anecdotes.

A new book reframes the affordability debate: the problem isn’t just prices alone, but persistently low wages.

Catholic voters were already likely to swing in the midterms. Trump’s outbursts about the Pope aren’t likely to help.