A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

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The University of California system abandoned its standardized testing requirement. It’s facing an existential crisis in the ...

High growth rates and surging exports in Vietnam mask deep frustrations in one of Asia’s most ambitious countries.

Costco Wholesale Corporation remains egregiously overvalued, with a trailing P/E of 50x and slowing sales/EPS growth rates ...

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Testing of students in several subjects has been used for many years now to determine their level of proficiency in those areas. Beginning around 2013, math and reading scores of the third through ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

The Russian dictator remains obsessed with his war in Ukraine but doesn’t seem to comprehend how badly it’s going.

Forget equity and fairness and reducing so-called wealth gaps. The current “tax-the-rich” movement is driven by an unspoken ...

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Orbital AI data centers face a credibility gap after SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son told shareholders the chip costs, launch ...