Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

The California Forever project envisions a new metropolis—but not everyone is on board.

California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...

Earlier this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu endorsed a restrictive version of rent control that supporters are pushing for a ...

Data centers in outer space? It makes sense, according to Elon Musk, hence the recent tectonic, trillion-dollar merger ...

How bad was President Trump’s loss last week at the Supreme Court in the tariffs case? Really bad. How does this defeat compare with other losses suffered by presidents at the Court? There is no ...

Donald Trump is everywhere; that’s true for his country and for the world. At home, Trump is engaged in an astonishing number of high-visibility battles with institutions once controlled by the ...

Americans are using more and more medical care, but the need to pay for it all is a drag on employment in other sectors.

The public scandals and internal disagreements engulfing the Labour Party provide an all-pervasive soundtrack to life in Britain today. But it's not just the governing party that is stuck in a ...

The Mellon Foundation, the country’s largest private funder of the arts and humanities, offers the clearest example. The foundation directs much of its funding to developing the academic talent ...

During last year’s mayoral campaign, Zohran K. Mamdani came off as an economic and fiscal fabulist, but at least he seemed politically astute. He was the only candidate who focused on rising costs, ...