Jim Epstein

How a new law would screw drivers and riders

In 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act, which gave federal, state, and local governments unprecedented power to shape...

High, persistent unemployment and a sluggish economy underscore what all but the most-dedicated supporters of Barack Obama know to be true: The...

The NYU psychologist on sex and the culture war

Why does a virtual currency need a physical location?

Highlights from this week’s hearings on virtual currency.

Are e-cigs the most important public health breakthrough of our time?

Two hours after it was announced that a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the...

“It’s not all about money!”

The remaking of public education in Camden, New Jersey.

How did Camden, N.J. come to have one of the highest spending AND worst performing school districts in the nation?

D.C. residents breathed a sigh of relief when streetcars disappeared in 1962. Now they’re back.

At the Bitcoin/blockchain industry’s flagship annual conference, blue chip banks were out in force.

Can these millennial activists defeat the left and save Brazil?

Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It’ll make NSA mass data collection impossible.

Cryptocurrency is just code, and code is just speech, which is why in the U.S., at least, it’s protected.

End the subsidies and raise the fare.

Robert Pondiscio’s provocative new book, How the Other Half Learns, challenges supporters and opponents of education reform.

Accusations that a Miami attorney “scammed” Venezuelan asylum seekers speak volumes about the cruelty of the U.S. immigration system.

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela, by William Neuman, St. Martin’s...