Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of...

It looks like any other government website: Just visually unappealing enough to give the impression of fluorescent lights in a waiting...

Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year would make major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)....

On March 6, 1998 Bill Clinton signed the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant College Program, an act providing 33 colleges with...

Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations....

Mobile payment, facilitated by services like Chase QuickDeposit and Citi Electronic Check Deposit (ECD), has exploded recently. It’s...

American universities have become notorious for their price tags. In the last 20 years, private university costs have increased by 157...

The exact origins of the concept of American exceptionalism are difficult to pinpoint. Perhaps it is rooted in John Winthrop’s “City upon...

Federal judges’ conduct is governed by precise ethical codes that ensure their recusal from cases in which they may have financial,...

While both liberals and conservatives have historically drifted from their party’s norms about states rights in order to maneuver their...

Steeped in a climate of Cold War anxiety, the 1983 box office hit WarGames was a satirical product of the doomsdayish-thriller psychology...

On October 26, 2017, the Trump administration began the latest wave of declassifying documents relating to the Kennedy assassination....

No state escaped deindustrialization, but some weathered it better than others. Rhode Island was not one of those states. At the turn of...

The United States Senate is an institution steeped in tradition: From the filibuster to the amendment process, senators on both sides of...

In January of 2016, Walmart announced that it would be closing 154 of its locations in the US. This included all 102 Walmart Express...

From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Americans have long looked west for guidance on what is new and important. It is unsurprising, then,...

The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were...

In the present-day United States, no landmark political decision is insulated from commercial interests: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of...

In the wake of the crisis of 2007-8, central banks became understandably more willing to try out new monetary policies. Quantitative...

The United States announced on October 12th 2017 that it will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2018, because of claims deeming the...