“The purpose of a system is what it does,” British theorist Stafford Beer once observed. For decades, federal and state governments poured tens of billions of dollars into programs to reduce homelessness, providing free housing and treatment later. Thousands of jobs were created at nonprofit organizations in cities across the country, and millions of dollars […]

After months of delays, President Trump’s long-awaited global tariffs are slated to take effect at the end of this week. Trump on April 2 announced “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of other countries, using trade deficits to help calculate the tariff rate. But a week later, he lowered those rates to 10 percent for three months...

The Ohio State University (OSU) President Ted Carter said on Sunday that he thinks Ivy League schools are in “survival mode,” when asked about Columbia University’s settlement with the Trump administration. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked Carter whether he’s troubled by the “precedent” that the settlement sets...