Is college for everybody? According to Chelsea Waite, a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, the answer is no. And more students, parents, and educators are realizing it.  Waite spent two years speaking to administrators, teachers, parents, and students at six high schools in New England to learn more about post-grad desires. […]

In between jokes about identity politics and the taste of urine, massively popular podcaster Theo Von and his most recent show guest debated President Donald Trump’s tariff and trade policy. Would rising prices in the short term justify the supposed return of manufacturing jobs to America? Or would automation and artificial intelligence end up vaporizing […]

If you paid any attention at all to US politics in the 2010s, you’ll remember the seemingly endless stream of lawsuits seeking to undermine, or even repeal altogether, the Affordable Care Act. Turns out, these suits never ended.  On April 21, the Supreme Court will hear Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, the latest attempt to convince […]

President Donald Trump’s tariff plan has rattled Wall Street, alarmed the United States’ trading partners, and made Americans afraid of checking their retirement accounts.  It’s also been extremely confusing: After announcing that he would implement steep tariffs across the board (for reasons that didn’t make much sense), Trump walked back some of the tariffs before […]

A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star philanthropist Bono gave one of those long interviews to the New York Times Magazine. In between talking about his band’s new albums and the challenge of staying relevant after nearly 50 years […]