Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the first Rent Free of the New Year. This week's newsletter includes stories on: Newly inaugurated New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first housing policy moves Congress' ...

Oil markets are oversupplied heading into 2026, pressuring prices and favoring integrated majors and midstream infrastructure over pure upstream exposure. Electricity demand is accelerating for the ...

The new year marks a milestone for the United States as it approaches its 250th anniversary. To honor the occasion, a Boise art exhibition will extend its run into 2026 to invite more locals to ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news ...

Today’s Food and Drug Administration seems to be of two very different minds about oversight. For some things like vaccines, even strong data apparently are not good enough. But for other products, ...

Sanae Takaichi’s economic policies are full of contradictions. She repeats Abenomics-style stimulus despite stagflation and stagnant real wages, weakening the yen while downplaying price pressures.

Americans know they need to make investments to achieve their financial goals, yet the number of net new market participants is dropping. They increasingly claim to be risk-averse, yet many don’t seem ...

First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee that over 25,000 Palestinian ...

You may remember William of Occam, the 14th-century English philosopher who gave us the concept known as Occam’s razor. The razor helps us cut to the heart of seemingly complex questions by suggesting ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...