New rules from the Office of Management and Budget will change how the federal government weighs costs, enabling new efforts on climate change and poverty. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security ...

One problem: Voters aren't buying it. President Biden recently promised to “modernize” regulatory review, and that includes a major overhaul of how agencies measure the benefits and costs of their ...

Even as countries around the world lift COVID-19 restrictions, China shows no sign of easing its strict zero-COVID policy. A cost-benefit analysis finds that the Chinese strategy may be more ...

The arrival of the palm oil industry in Indonesia’s Papua region has wrought more than five times as much environmental and social damage than the benefits it has delivered, according to a new ...

Toxic and even deadly train wrecks like the one in East Palestine, Ohio, are the high cost of a regulatory system rigged to favor big corporations over the needs of ordinary Americans. One of the ...