Annie Lowrey

Is this the end of the trade war?

The hurdles facing the incoming mayor’s proposal are as large as its potential rewards.

The president is using the shutdown to shake down blue states.

The ACA worked, but nobody seems to know it.

First Washington, then the nation?

The tax code is becoming more chaotic and less fair.

The Job Market Is Hell

A recent set of cash-transfer programs had lackluster results—but cash is still "near unmatched as a salve for poverty," @AnnieLowrey argues:

Investors can’t do what politicians and voters won’t do.

A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

What else do you call a strategy designed to raise prices and lower productivity?