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Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Josh Barro, who writes the newsletter Very Serious, and Olivia Nuzzi, the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIf you were Donald Trump, you would probably summarize the academic paper's finding as follows: China is beating us. A new working paper from the economists David Autor, David [...]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 78.8 years in 2013 -- 76.4 years for men, 81.2 years for [...]

Jeb Bush says he wants to make the American economy grow at 4 percent a year, or nearly 2 percentage points faster than the Congressional Budget Office expects in the [...]

For the last few years, a small but prominent group of conservative writers and thinkers has urged the Republican party to rethink its economic agenda with a greater focus on [...]

Byline: JOSH BARRO There was a bit of good news buried in an update of the Congressional Budget Office's economic projections released on Tuesday. It has increased its estimate of [...]

There was a bit of good news buried in an update of the Congressional Budget Office's economic projections released Tuesday. It has increased its estimate of how many Americans are [...]

A proposed increase in the minimum wage in New York State will be substantial, but that's really not what bothers some economists. It's that the raise would apply only to [...]

Jeb Bush said last week that Americans would ''need to work longer hours'' if we're going to meet his ambitious target of 4 percent real annual economic growth -- nearly [...]

''When everyone's an elite flier, no one is,'' Delta Air Lines explained in an email to frequent fliers last fall. The email included what would seem to be bad news [...]

''Nerds love Orlando,'' according to public relations materials I received this week from the city of Orlando, Fla. But as Orlando seeks to rebrand itself as ''a high tech hub [...]

An awkward truth for politicians looking to help the middle class is that there's much less the government can do for them than for the poor. So, the president has [...]

LOS ANGELES -- A lot of people didn't know they wanted foie gras ice cream sandwiches until California made them illegal. Humphry Slocombe, an ice-cream parlor with two locations in [...]

Taxi medallion prices continue to fall under pressure from new taxi competitors, including Uber. New York City individual taxi medallions, whose owners must drive a taxi for at least part [...]

''The Deadweight Loss of Christmas'' is the sort of academic paper that makes ordinary people think economists are kind of crazy. 'I find that holiday gift giving destroys between one-third [...]

If the stock market is efficient, why would a single Upshot article on taxicab medallion prices help push down Medallion Financial's stock 7 percent in a single day, when most [...]

Kansas' budget problems keep getting worse. State officials said this week that the tax cuts championed by Gov. Sam Brownback would force them to start a new round of substantial [...]

If it feels as if your rental car is always a Chevrolet Impala, there's a reason for that. Rental car companies registered 89,569 new Impalas during 2013, making it America's [...]

Wonder what Washington might look like if it were less polarized? Just look to Rhode Island. Political scientists Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty analyzed state legislative voting records from 1996 [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAuto theft isn't much of a problem anymore in New York City. In 1990, the city had 147,000 reported auto thefts, one for every 50 residents; last year, there [...]

The Federal Highway Trust Fund is set to run out of money. If Congress does not put more money in the fund by Friday, the federal government will start reducing [...]

A public pension fund works like this: The government promises to make payments to its employees after they retire; it invests money now and uses those investments, and the returns [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAbington House, at 500 West 30th Street near the High Line in West Chelsea, is a new luxury residential building and, like a lot of new luxury developments in [...]