For decades, certain regions of the world have organized much of their foreign policy around a single assumption: that a dominant outside power would guarantee their security. When that assumption starts to look shaky — whether due to a change in strategy, a costly conflict, competing domestic priorities, or a simple loss of confidence — […]
If you’ve ever opened an email from your student loan servicer and felt a jolt of panic at a subject line like “Your repayment plan is changing,” you’re not alone. Federal student loan repayment plans aren’t permanent. They get created, phased out, challenged in court, and replaced with new versions on a fairly regular basis […]
Once a month, headlines like “job growth slows more than expected” or “hiring cools” show up across every major news outlet. For most people, these stories raise more questions than they answer. Slowed compared to what? Is this bad news? Should I be worried about my job, my mortgage rate, or my next raise? The […]
Somewhere in New York City right now, there is a pizzeria smaller than most studio apartments, smaller than most food trucks, and arguably smaller than a typical New York City parking spot — because that pizzeria is, quite literally, a Smart Car. Inside it: a working pizza oven, a trained chef with two decades of […]