Economy

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Over the past 18 months, inflation has dominated our understanding of the pandemic economy. Americans have endured...

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and hybrid work are as popular...

It’s hard to make sense of the often-conflicting economic data we’ve been seeing recently. Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Inflation isn’t under control, and...

Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins — long-tenured moderates — are among the Senate Republicans most likely to support legislation that increases the...

Fourteen states prohibit or restrict foreign ownership of private agricultural land, but that number may soon grow. ROBYN BECK / AFP via Getty Images The...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former Speaker John Boehner both face or faced contentious negotiations over the debt ceiling, but as the leaders...

SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Playing chicken with the national economy is not unusual for Congress and the president. There was the...

Cleveland is one of the poorest cities in the country. It’s far from the expensive coastal cities like New York City and San...

What a year 2022 has been. There was so … much … news. We saw record-high inflation, war in Ukraine, a landmark Supreme...

This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.” Transcript One of the most important numbers of the year that you might...

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES When President Biden signed a bill to prevent a rail-worker strike this past Friday, it was only...

ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER This week, a Siena College/New York Times poll showed President Biden with just a 33 percent approval rating, a result...