Jon Talton

The quest of the Oval Office’s far-right occupant to purge what he considers left-wing views from American institutions of higher learning has chilled academia. Although the administration’s attempt to remove $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard Uni... See more

The United States is seeing a change in its regional demographics, and it is not a result of typical mobility and migration driven by work pursuits. The urban scholar Richard Florida recently noted the trend. “The North is losing fewer people, and the Sou... See more

For the first time since December, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee, the 12-member body within the central bank that sets monetary policy, lowered its short-term interest rate Wednesday to about 4.1%, down 0.25 percentage points. Fed officials ... See more