Jordan Weissmann

Don't believe the hype: Nobody has figured out how to replace traditional higher education yet, and they're not about to. More »

The music industry's crusade to stop a second-hand market for digital downloads is about more than technophobia More »

Why the only way to ensure we spend less on oil in the future is to use less. More »

Even without the cover of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch's beloved newspapers are still in better financial shape than their More »

Its easy to poke fun at Apple's naysayers in retrospect, but perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to judge. More »

By striking down part of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, the court may have set the stage for new limits on federal power. More »

Great for hospitals, terrible for insurers. More »

Saying we could be oil independent is just a nice way of saying we'll still be oil dependent. More »

A University of Chicago survey finds academics skeptical about Republican orthodoxy. More »

This is your economy on austerity. More »

One chart, three major trends that have reshaped our economy. More »

Apple's retail sales force should unionize -- for their own sake, and maybe the country's. More »

Nobody wants to pay for their products. More »

Looking back at when the apparel industry made offshoring trendy. More »

It might not be possible for too many more undergraduates to find jobs these days. More »

So says a new study from Boston College. More »

Hunger is high. Overpayments are low. The economy is weak, and food stamps are a strong stimulus. What exactly is the problem the GOP is trying to solve? More »

35 years of labor's declining fortunes, in one chart. More »

After decades of killing low-end jobs in retail, software is finally doing the people's bidding by creating a world with fewer lawyers. More »

That is, unless you like the idea of leaving students deeper in debt, cutting off college access to the poor, and increasing dropout rates. More »