US federal spending during the COVID-19 pandemic was enormous even by Uncle Sam’s standards. With the economy and job market in a free fall, and the severity of the health crisis uncertain, ...

The football coach Bill Belichick, one of only three head coaches to have won six titles or more in the National Football League, ran into trouble in 2007 when he was caught cheating. In the infamous ...

The hollowing out of manufacturing in the United States has been blamed for societal ills ranging from growing drug and alcohol abuse to declining rates of marriage and civic engagement. When Canada, ...

Hiring is, more and more, dominated by artificial intelligence. Standard AI-powered tools can sift through résumés, saving companies time and resources. Newer AI voice agents can also collect ...

One day last spring, I came back to my office from a lunch meeting and found a high-school student camping outside. He was a prospective University of Chicago undergrad, and he said he was passionate ...

Demis Hassabis is not a chemist, yet he was one of three recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize recognized major contributions to the study of protein structures. Hassabis, a ...

After a few years of relatively stagnant viewership in and around the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Super Bowl has reclaimed its status as a perennially record-setting television event. The 2025 ...

Generative artificial intelligence has set off a tremendous amount of excitement, speculation, and anxiety thanks to its ability to convincingly mimic human work, including human writing. Although a ...

Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...

A common currency is a wise and important component of European integration and economic vitality. The euro was set up presciently, but its evolution in a sequence of crises now leaves it in a ...

Financial crises of a sort that may normally hit financial markets once a century struck twice in the past two decades. First there was the 2008–09 financial crisis, then the COVID-19 pandemic. In ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...