Texas looks set to pass America’s biggest school-voucher scheme | Evidence from other states suggests pupils will do worse as a resultApril 7, 2025
What a refugee camp reveals about economics | In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a monthApril 7, 2025
Asia was winning the fight against malaria. Then Trump returned | Medical workers were tantalizingly close to eradicating malaria in much of Southeast Asia. But US cuts to foreign aid have put progress at riskApril 7, 2025
Deep cuts to HIV research could halt decades of progress, scientists say | The Trump administration has shut down government offices devoted to HIV and ended hundreds of millions of dollars in research aimed at preventing infections in high-risk groupsApril 7, 2025
China tells kids to study manufacturing to fill factory jobs | College grads are unemployed even as millions of blue-collar positions remain unfilledApril 7, 2025
One of the silver linings of Trump’s tarrif disaster is that oil prices have crashed down to April 2021 levels, thus hurting Russia and helping oil importing economies like the EUApril 7, 2025
