Two veteran public high-school teachers parse new books about what they do every weekday.

A reflection on Jerome Kern, the man who created the American standard.

Chinese manufacturing is underperforming expectations. We may be seeing signs of the storm that Xi has been preparing for by consolidating power.

Three new studies show employers responding to the ACA by cutting jobs, moving jobs to part time, or passing on new costs to workers. So much for “Affordable.”

In cities and towns across America, debtor’s prisons in all but name are locking the less fortunate into cycles of poverty and dysfunction.

Indonesia struggled through decades of tumult and quasi-military rule to forge an unlikely democracy. Now it is closer than ever to achieving its potential as a geopolitical and economic powerhouse.

The Ebola outbreak has killed over one thousand people to date. While the infected countries fight to contain it with varied rates of success, it is draining their economies.

A new report from CO₂ Scorecard claims that the U.S. shale boom has increased net global emissions, but seems to employ questionable methodologies to reach that conclusion.

For a Thursday evening pick-me-up, here’s a list of our favorite links.

Ukraine’s economy is taking a beating from the war. If Ukraine is to build a real state if and when the conflict dies down, it needs to get its economic and political house in order.