When ICE ramped up enforcement, US-born workers didn’t see any economic gainsChloe N. East, University of Colorado Boulder and Elizabeth Cox, University of Colorado Boulder
It’s not just high gas prices – inflation is now spreading through the US economyD. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State University
How employers can support workers when they take medical leaveLiza Barnes, Drexel University; Ashley Hardin, Washington University in St. Louis, and Christina Lacerenza, University of Colorado Boulder
You’ve been trying to get around Amazon – but it’s not that easyYuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Coastal Carolina University and Patrick van Esch, Coastal Carolina University
America’s nonprofit sector is pushing back against an ‘authoritarian playbook’Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University
New SNAP rules requiring that benefits be used at stores selling healthier food could backfireBenjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University
War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder storyEzgi Canpolat, Harvard University
UAE’s OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignmentKristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University
Global supply chains cause environmental harm, but they can help repair it tooMinelle Silva, University of Manitoba; Jia Yen Lai, Monash University, and Lee Matthews, University of Nottingham
Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are comingAya S. Chacar, Florida International University
Why Kevin Warsh might still prove to be an independent Federal Reserve chairCristina Bodea, Michigan State University and Andrew Kerner, Michigan State University
Food aid doesn’t make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobsClaudia Strauss, Pitzer College
How Trump plans to keep tariffs at the center of his economic policy despite stinging court lossesKent Jones, Babson College
Canada is kicking its US booze habit as trade tensions persistAndrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee
Would a $1 rideshare fee affect wealthier or working-class Philadelphians more? 2 Chicago studies offer some perspectiveParth Vaishnav, University of Michigan and Miki Tsuchiya, University of Michigan
Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix thatSuvrat Dhanorkar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patientsSukhun Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ivan Lin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sungyong Chang, Cornell University
AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don’t use the same kindsVidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University
Perseverance doesn’t always pay off for companies – sometimes it’s better to ‘fail fast’Scott Friend, University of Dayton and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, EDHEC Business School
Why women in groups face a ‘collaboration penalty’ that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escapeDavid Hekman, University of Colorado Boulder and Mallory Decker, University of Colorado Boulder
So your new ‘co-worker’ is an AI agent – here’s how to make the best of your human-machine relationship Nigel Melville, University of Michigan
For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers’ expectations of a healthy body can lead to shameBeth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell
Big beautiful refund? 5 tax code changes that may put more money in your pocketJim Franklin, Western Governors University School of Business
Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in PhillyAnn Juliano, Villanova University
Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working momsAlexandra Killewald, University of Michigan
What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might lastDaniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London
How personal finance advice is getting political, thanks to ‘finfluencers’Maximilian Brichta, University of Virginia
How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction marketsParker Bach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating betterSarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University
Trump administration’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoingBeth Gazley, Indiana University
Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosityGeorge E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY
Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025 − Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates and the estate of Paul Allen lead a list of the biggest giversDavid Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Hans Peter Schmitz, North Carolina State University, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University - Newark
With less charitable giving flowing directly to charities, a tax policy scholar suggests some policy fixesRay Madoff, Boston College
Getting $750 a month didn’t end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless peopleBenjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California