
Italy's farmers lobbied hard for a law banning meat grown in laboratory bioreactors from stem cells. In November, Italy enacted the law.
Italy's farmers lobbied hard for a law banning meat grown in laboratory bioreactors from stem cells. In November, Italy enacted the law.
The seven-decade conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a good example of what happens when people refuse to accept that their maximalist goals are unachievable.
Liberals and conservatives aren't as far apart on teaching American history as partisan politicians and pundits would have us believe.
There are economic consequences to China's return to less pragmatic, more Marxist-Leninist policies.
There's an emerging consensus that the Fed won't be raising interest rates much more. On the other hand, interest rates look likely to remain near current highs for a while.
In the view of this blog's author, who's leaving Washington, D.C., in favor of Washington state, there's more to the capital than political dysfunction.
The labor market is tight, in part because of the pandemic, but mostly because long-term demographic trends are squeezing the labor pool.
What the striking auto workers are demanding makes perfect sense from their point of view, but they risk pricing themselves out of their jobs.
Here are some reasons not to get too worked up about ag trade's swing into negative territory.
Inflation has come down, but it's not clear the Federal Reserve's interest-rate increases are responsible.
Between the torrid climate and the after-effects of the pandemic, restaurants are being forced to adjust.
The economic news from China is bad and some analysts think China's problems are practically unfixable.
Congress takes a lot of recesses, but the better reason to be critical of some Congressmen is their lack of seriousness.
In addition to food and fellowship, the nation's 8,600 farmers markets help bridge the urban-rural divide.
A boom in construction of new factories indicates Washington's latest industrial-policy forays are working -- so far.
Despite agreements between beef producers and Brazilian prosecutors, tropical-forest clearcutting is on the rise.
Whether you call it de-risking or decoupling, the U.S. is likely to go further in disentangling from China than its allies. How far anyone will go is unclear.
That the Federal Reserve didn't raise interest rates at its June meeting is good news, but it could be well into next year before the Fed starts lowering them.
The debt-ceiling deal shows compromise is still possible in polarized Washington. It does little to address the nation's fiscal challenges.
The Biden administration tries to dissuade South Korean advocates of developing nuclear weapons with a promise to consult.