Subsidizing Higher Education Is Not Creating Widespread External Benefits

“We negotiate with bombs.”— Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary for the Trump Administration The language of modern government is the language of empire. It is the language of domination, retaliation, conquest and control—of enemies to be crushed, nations to be subdued, and dissenters to be silenced. Under the Trump Administration, the language of empire has also […]

USPS Pauses Pension Contributions Amid Looming Cash Shortfall Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has temporarily suspended its employer contributions to a government-wide pension plan after warning Congress that, without changes, it could run out of cash within the next year. On Thursday, USPS told the Office of Personnel Management—the federal government’s human resource division—that it would pause its biweekly employer contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS. The move is expected to conserve about $2.5 billion through Sept. 30, the end of the...

International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Monday that the world is facing a massive energy crisis caused by the war against Iran.  Birol argued that the current energy crunch is worse than those of the 1970s and the impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine combined. “This crisis, as things stand, […]