Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino The compromise to avoid default on the U.S. debt passed muster, eventually. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pulled it off. The nation can breathe, at least for the next two years. And…
Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University and Dennis W. Jansen, Texas A&M University Social Security is in trouble. The retirement and disability program has been running a cash-flow deficit since 2010. Its trust fund, which holds US$2.7 trillion, is rapidly diminishing.…
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Matt Harris, Park University Talking with a friend about the debt ceiling…
Raymond Scheppach, University of Virginia House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the…
Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino The compromise to avoid default on the U.S. debt passed muster, eventually. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pulled it off. The nation…
Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University and Dennis W. Jansen, Texas A&M University Social Security is in trouble. The retirement and disability program has been running a cash-flow deficit since 2010. Its trust…
Matt Harris, Park University Talking with a friend about the debt ceiling negotiations, I mentioned that there were incentives for centrists in Congress to cobble together a deal. My friend said, incredulously,…
Raymond Scheppach, University of Virginia House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis because they wanted deep cuts in government spending. So, based on the tentative deal announced…
Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What really…
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Matt Williams, The Conversation President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on May 27, 2023, agreed in principle to a tentative deal that would raise the…
Jeff Inglis, The Conversation Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on May 25, 2023, in the wake of his November 2022 conviction for…
Jakub Hlávka, University of Southern California and Adam Rose, University of Southern California The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The economic toll of the…
John W. Diamond, Rice University Convening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells: Those are a few of the ways the biggest banks and financial regulators are preparing for…
Raquel Aldana, University of California, Davis The fire-related deaths of at least 39 migrants in a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S. border with Mexico, will likely be found…
