12+ hour, 59+ min ago   (457+ words) For Concordia University, St. Paul, the college’s biggest competitor isn’t other colleges — it’s students who, considering affordability, decide not to go to college at all. “We believe making it affordable — tuition affordable — and doing it in a way that’s transparent,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (442+ words) In most markets, prices tell consumers where to go, tell sellers what competitors are charging, and tell new entrants where they can win business. Healthcare too often suppresses that signal until after the service is delivered. Patients are rarely given…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (168+ words) Though the new scanners can identify threat items that older X-ray machines may have missed, such as liquid explosives, subjecting all passenger carry-on bags to this technology is misguided. One possible explanation for deploying these new scanners at all checkpoint…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (571+ words) Any genuine efforts to lower high U.S. prescription drug prices should be embraced. But President Donald Trump’s latest deal with drug manufacturers to lower those prices, announced Monday, falls far short of the “real relief” from ballooning healthcare costs he has…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (455+ words) The solution is each other. Just as the World Cup showed millions of visitors how wonderful America can be, a mandatory year of national service would show our own young people the same thing — while equipping them with the civics,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) The U.S. government, steward of the world’s largest economy, faces a darkening fiscal outlook as sovereign borrowing costs surge. Unfortunately, it seems intent on trying any fix except the one that might help. In a trend affecting the entire developed world,…...