Jordan Weissmann

Jordan Weissmann is an associate editor at The Atlantic. He has written for a number of publications, including The Washington Post and The National Law Journal.

Yes, U.S. Wealth Inequality Is Terrible by Global Standards

Yes, U.S. Wealth Inequality Is Terrible by Global Standards

But we're probably not the worst in the world. More »

How Washington Could Make College Tuition Free (Without Spending a Penny More on Education)

How Washington Could Make College Tuition Free (Without Spending a Penny More on Education)

Washington already spends enough on student aid to cover tuition for each and every public college student in America. Maybe it's time to give that a try? More »

Hugo Chavez's Sad, Oil-Soaked Economic Legacy

Hugo Chavez's Sad, Oil-Soaked Economic Legacy

After a decade drunk on petroleum profits, Venezuela's economy is looking at a dicey future. More »

How Wall Street Devoured Corporate America

How Wall Street Devoured Corporate America

Thirty years ago, the financial sector claimed around a tenth of U.S. corporate profits. Today, it's almost 30 percent More »

Don't Panic: Wall St.'s Going Crazy for Student Loans, but This Is No Bubble

Don't Panic: Wall St.'s Going Crazy for Student Loans, but This Is No Bubble

The market for student debt is far tinier -- and far safer -- than you might expect. More »

Death to Patent Trolls: How a New Bill Could Slay Tech's Worst Parasites

Death to Patent Trolls: How a New Bill Could Slay Tech's Worst Parasites

New legislation would force the tech-world parasites to start paying defense costs when they lose in court, which could go a surprisingly long way toward killing their business model. More »

Groupon's Ousted CEO Writes a Brutally Candid Goodbye Letter

Groupon's Ousted CEO Writes a Brutally Candid Goodbye Letter

"I was fired today. If you're wondering why...you haven't been paying attention." More »

Think Artists Don't Make Anything Off Music Sales? These Graphs Prove You Wrong

Think Artists Don't Make Anything Off Music Sales? These Graphs Prove You Wrong

Artists report that as much as 22 percent of their pay relies on people paying for their work. More »

Here's Exactly How Many College Graduates Live Back at Home

Here's Exactly How Many College Graduates Live Back at Home

A whole lot more than in 2001, for starters. More »

Why Are Gas Prices Are Suddenly So High? Blame the Refineries

Why Are Gas Prices Are Suddenly So High? Blame the Refineries

So says the government. More »

How Many Ph.D.'s Actually Get to Become College Professors?

How Many Ph.D.'s Actually Get to Become College Professors?

Not that many. More »

The Ph.D. Bust, Pt. II: How Bad Is the Job Market for Young American-Born Scientists?

The Ph.D. Bust, Pt. II: How Bad Is the Job Market for Young American-Born Scientists?

U.S. born Ph.D.'s have better job prospects than the immigrant scholars they go to class with -- but they don't exactly have it good either. More »

Why Are Gas Prices So Bizarrely High Right Now?

Why Are Gas Prices So Bizarrely High Right Now?

China's looking good, the Middle East is looking bad, and too many U.S. refineries have shut down for the season. More »

The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young  Scientists—in 7 Charts

The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists—in 7 Charts

Perhaps it's time to start talking about a STEM surplus? More »

The Worst Cities for College-Educated Women Trying to Find a Decent Date

The Worst Cities for College-Educated Women Trying to Find a Decent Date

AKA: The best cities for college-educated men to find college-educated women More »

Helpful, Harmful, or Hype? 5 Economists Weigh In on Obama's Minimum-Wage Proposal

Helpful, Harmful, or Hype? 5 Economists Weigh In on Obama's Minimum-Wage Proposal

Lo and behold, some of the smartest minds in the field find plenty to disagree on. More »

Who Might Get a Raise If Obama Boosts the Minimum Wage?

Who Might Get a Raise If Obama Boosts the Minimum Wage?

Or who might lose their job? More »

The Decade-Long Slowdown in U.S. Healthcare Spending (in a Graph)

The Decade-Long Slowdown in U.S. Healthcare Spending (in a Graph)

In 10 years, the rate of growth has fallen by more than half. More »

A Labor Union Hopes Medical Marijuana Will Cure Its Ills

A Labor Union Hopes Medical Marijuana Will Cure Its Ills

The United Food and Commercial Workers is organizing dispensaries and pushing legalization efforts with the hope that a new industry will become a source of new members. More »

This Graph Explains Why the U.S. Postal Service Is About to Cut Saturday Mail Delivery

This Graph Explains Why the U.S. Postal Service Is About to Cut Saturday Mail Delivery

Delivering mail six days a week to every corner of the country just isn't the business it used to be. More »

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