After growing up poor with just his single mom, Kent Bausman took deliberate steps to change his circumstances.

Since President Donald Trump began his second term in 2025, the U.S. economy has seen some changes. According to the The Economist, GDP grew 1.4% in the fourth quarter, and the stock market has seen ...

How do some people achieve upper-middle class status by their mid-50s? Learn what it might take to be defined as part of that bracket.

Jordan McGillis writes in “Why the Middle Class Feels Poor” (op-ed, Feb. 12) that middle-class families feel they’re “losing ever more ground to the upper middle class.” He calls this “intensifying ...

"The Gates" (opening Friday), a tense, low-budget thriller from Dallas director/writer John Burr, has an eye-catching premise: what happens when three, twentysomething African American guys find ...

I was deeply saddened about the passing of The Reverend Jesse Jackson. I was a member of his Rainbow Coalition.

American public schools continue to allow students to graduate despite not being able to read beyond an elementary level.

For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

In Berlin in the early 1870s, tourists began visiting a neighborhood called Barackia. It did not have museums, palaces, or ...

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and former state senator passed away on Feb. 17, visited SMC in 1988 to inaugurate a sculpture that stands on campus today.