Blowback I’m really struck by how much tonight’s GOP debacle reflects President Donald Trump’s bad decisions — on policy, on ...

Herbert Hoover. THE NUMBERS: Incumbent party losses – 1930 2026 House -49 -45? Senate   -5   -8? Governors   -9   -5? WHAT ...

Many Americans say higher education is too expensive and not worth the cost. But ask them about a nearby community college and the response often changes. The national numbers on higher education are ...

Maryland is in a similar bind, straddling aggressive climate targets and rising regional electricity costs, made worse by the explosive growth of data centers in neighboring northern Virginia. A paper ...

Consumer anxiety in the United States is at its peak. High inflation due to high prices for food, healthcare, housing and ...

Freedom House — count of ‘electoral democracies’ — down from 125 in 2016 to 106. THE NUMBERS: U.S. rating for “freedom”* – ...

America’s schools have made progress reducing chronic absenteeism since the pandemic. But the problem continues. Across 44 ...

Israeli voters thronged to the polls in record numbers this week, only to produce a frustratingly murky verdict. It may take weeks of haggling among the country’s fragmented political parties to form ...

Tamar Jacoby, director of PPI’s New Ukraine project, has just published her analysis on who won the latest round of escalating tensions between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Donald ...

Merger control is being rethought. The European Commission has opened a major review of its merger framework: the draft revised Merger Guidelines, published in April 2026, were open for public ...