Born in the Netherlands and raised in Haifa, Joel Mokyr is a world-renowned economic historian, known for his research on the ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

From the Declaration of Independence, to railroads, to the rise of conglomerates: Here are 51 seminal moments in the development of U.S. capitalism.

With the government paralyzed and Americans’ pocketbooks reeling, the White House is giving a $20 billion bailout to an ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the ongoing government shutdown may start costing the economy as much as ...

Pentagon uses $8B in unspent funds for military payroll as 14-day government shutdown may become longest in US history over ...

The federal government shutdown, which began on October 1, is now in its third week with no resolution in sight.

But that thinking changed with the emergence of endogenous growth theory, which aims to explain which forces drive innovation ...

This fall, communities across Michigan and the nation will honor the legacy of Filipinos in the United States. October is Filipino American History Month, a time to uplift the contributions of ...

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

We need a real national museum, not a 1619 museum. But the 1619 Project's fingerprints are all over the Smithsonian's African American museum.

Trump's language about defense -- and the logic behind it -- demonstrates how little America's leaders have learned from ...