Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University Five out of the six biggest U.S. airlines have raised their checked bag fees since January 2024. Take American Airlines. In 2023, it cost US$30 to check a standard bag in with the…
The first and most visible test of Republican candidate support in the 2024 presidential election is the Iowa caucuses, which take place on Jan. 15, 2024. This year, even though Democrat Joe Biden is…
Two pundits – Jonah Goldberg, left, and Paul Begala, second from right – discus politics with journalists Kristen Holmes and Jake Tapper. The Conversation, CC BY-SA Mike McDevitt, Professor of journalism and media studies,…
Ali M. Bramson, Assistant Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from…
William Chittenden, Texas State University The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which the George W. Bush administration created in 2007 to encourage people to work for the government and nonprofits, has grown…
Lester Munson, University of Sydney Henry Kissinger was the ultimate champion of the United States’ foreign policy battles. The former US secretary of state died on November 29 2023 after living for…
Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney On Monday US President Joe Biden released a wide ranging and ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) – catapulting the US to the front of conversations about…
Raymond Gibney Jr., Penn State When people go on strike, their employers don’t pay them. That makes it hard for workers who have walked off the job to keep paying their bills.…
Joshua Murray, Vanderbilt University The United Auto Workers union, or UAW, has told workers at three factories to go on strike after failing to agree on new contracts with each of Detroit’s…
John A. Fliter, Kansas State University and Betsy Wood, Bard College A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New…
Kristina M. Lee, University of South Dakota When Utah legislators passed a bill requiring the review and removal of “pornographic or indecent” books in school libraries, they likely did not imagine the…