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.

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

President-elect Trump is right to want Congress to deal with the debt ceiling this week, before he takes office. Congressional Republicans should support Trump and pass a stopgap funding bill that ...

PIAAC survey results show US adults are struggling with fundamental literacy and numeracy skills at a time of transition for the workforce.

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a way that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the proposed presidential advisory group to be led by businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, can be successful. But there ...

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 ...

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 ...

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