The New York Times

When Ali Faqirzada was detained after a routine asylum hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese tapped their networks to help.

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.

Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.

The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy.

Government employees were expecting to see paychecks again as early as Nov. 20 after six weeks in limbo.

Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, told the university’s board that the choice of a new president, to replace one pushed out by Republicans over the summer, should be delayed until she is in office.

The sharp-tongued architect and professor built Manhattan’s most luxurious towers, but his new book shuttles from Billionaires’ Row to the Bronx. (Plus, what he thinks of Rem and Zaha.)