Eduardo Porter

Investment and jobs from the repatriation of profits held abroad have been promised in the past. But the incentives to executives will need to change.

The president has abandoned a policy consensus that alleviating poverty around the world is a key to reducing the chances of instability and conflict.

A Stanford professor’s vision of an economy wholly powered by renewable fuels has drawn a heated rebuttal from scholars who question many of its assumptions.

By reversing the Medicaid expansion and leaving millions unable to pay for coverage, the bill would be a landmark retreat in American social welfare.

In a time of populist policy making and popular anger, the central bank faces a renewed struggle over its independence.

Rejecting the premise of international accords is one thing. But displaying irrationality for effect, without a rational objective, can end in war.

The poverty rate has improved, but inequality is still dragging our economy down.

The United States can choose what kind of low-skilled immigration it will have, legal or illegal, and specialists say legal is undoubtedly better.

Hillary Clinton wants to increase tax credits to fight child poverty, but the Russell Sage Foundation has a bolder plan: providing each child with $250 a month.

The most promising way to improve the nation’s standard of living, some academics argue, is to expand the work of government.