President Trump scraps the nation’s most comprehensive food insecurity report − making it harder to know how many Americans struggle to get enough food

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025Tracy Roof, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of RichmondLeave a Comment

The Trump administration announced on Sept. 20, 2025, that it plans to stop releasing food insecurity data. The federal government has tracked and analyzed this data for the past three decades, but it plans to stop after publishing statistics pertaining to 2024 data. The Conversation U.S. asked Tracy Roof, a political scientist who has researched […]

US economy is already on the edge – a prolonged government shutdown could send it tumbling over

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025John W. Diamond, Director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, Rice UniversityLeave a Comment

The economic consequences of the current federal government shutdown hinge critically on how long it lasts. If it is resolved quickly, the costs will be small, but if it drags on, it could send the U.S. economy into a tailspin. That’s because the economy is already in a precarious state, with the labor market struggling, […]

Why Major League Baseball keeps coming back to Japan

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado BoulderLeave a Comment

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. That history was front and center when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs opened their 2025 regular […]

EBRD and EU Back €45 Million Upgrade to Kazakhstan’s Aktau Port

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025Posted by adminLeave a Comment

Aktau, Kazakhstan, 30 September 2025 — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) have announced a joint financial package of up to €45 million to expand and modernise the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s main maritime gateway on the Caspian Sea. The investment is designed to strengthen the Transcaspian Corridor, […]

Even a government shutdown that ends quickly would hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025Gonzalo Maturana, Associate Professor of Finance, Emory UniversityLeave a Comment

The U.S. government shutdown couldn’t come at a worse time for federal workers. With a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been furloughed – sent home without pay until funding resumes. And ahead of the shutdown, President Donald Trump suggested that a prolonged lapse in funding could open the door to “irreversible” […]

Conventional anti-corruption tools often fail to address root causes – but loss of US leadership could still spell trouble for efforts abroad

October 1, 2025October 1, 2025Diana Chigas, Professor of the Practice in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, The Fletcher School, Tufts UniversityLeave a Comment

For nearly half a century, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has made it illegal for U.S. citizens and companies to bribe foreign officials. Since 1998, that has been the case for foreign companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges or acting in the U.S., too. Under the Trump administration, however, expectations are changing. In February 2025, […]

Ending taxes on home sales would benefit the wealthiest households most – part of a larger pattern in Trump tax plans

September 30, 2025September 29, 2025Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt UniversityLeave a Comment

Not long after U.S. housing prices reached a record high this summer – the median existing home went for US$435,000 in June – President Donald Trump said that he was considering a plan to make home sales tax-free. Supporters of the idea, introduced by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the No Tax on Home […]

Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation

September 29, 2025September 28, 2025Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics, UMass AmherstLeave a Comment

Pharmaceutical innovation saves lives. But not every “new” drug is truly new. Patents are designed to reward breakthrough inventions by granting the inventors temporary monopoly rights to recoup the costs of research and development and to encourage future innovation. But firms may also exploit the system in ways that make drugs more expensive and less […]

Minister Welcomes Uptake in SUSI Grant as Application Skyrockets—Find Out If You Qualify

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025Posted by adminLeave a Comment

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless has welcomed a significant increase in applications to Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) following the expansion of eligibility criteria under Budget 2025. He strongly encourages students and their families to visit susi.ie to determine their grant eligibility. Over 7,500 more applications have been […]

Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help

September 28, 2025September 29, 2025Arturo Porzecanski, Research Fellow, Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, American UniversityLeave a Comment

President Donald Trump vowed to help out his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei on Sept. 23, 2025, a day after the U.S. administration said “all options” were on the table in regard to a bailout for the Latin American country’s rocky economy. A day after Trump and Milei’s meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations […]

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