School districts are failing to accurately report when their most vulnerable students are being physically restrained or secluded. That’s according to a June 2019 report from the Government...

My neighbor, Billy, has lived for 17 years in a 20-foot-long recreational vehicle parked within a mostly industrial, but now gentrifying, neighborhood in Seattle.

A 68-year-old former carpet layer and handyman, Billy says he...

The week before Independence Day, Chief Justice John Roberts gave the United States two extraordinary rulings on the nature of American democracy. Both cases are about fair elections, and both outcomes are all about John Roberts.

Th...

The meat you eat, if you’re a carnivore, comes from animal muscles. But animals are composed of a lot more than just muscle. They...

Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold.

And even then, they’ve done so while facing tremendousdiscrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers and fans.

This is certainly true in competitive Olympic forms of wrestling. But it’s also been the case for...

Do you feel like nutritionists are always changing their minds? Do you want science-based information about diet but don’t know whom or what to believe?

If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not alone: More than 80% of Americans are befuddled....

Editor’s note: The term “personalized learning” is becoming more common. Indeed, 39 states mention personalized learning in their school improvement plans, as required by the Every...

The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. Since 1990, Indonesia has...

A quarter of a century ago, on July 5, 1994, a company, which shared a name with the world’s largest river, was incorporated. It sold books to customers who got to its website through a dial-up modem.

It wasn’t the first bookstore to sell online. (Books.com...

President Donald Trump’s trade wars have sparkedfierce debate about the role of protectionism versus liberalism in U.S. trade with other countries.

This debate is hardly new. It dates all the way back to America’s founding.

As a political economist interested in the historical...