Detecting Cancer

The Catch in Catching Cancer Early
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/the-catch-in-catching-cancer-early
New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes remains a stubborn challenge. 

The Role of Foreign Students

Foreign Students Help Make America Great
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/international-students-help-make-america-great-higher-education-colleges-universities-8ad3ba1a 

Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Students Threatens to Disrupt Pipeline of Inventors

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-international-student-inventors-6a449fe1

Immigrants who came as students created the USB port and numerous other innovations.

Tariffs and Trade Distortions

Paul Solman reports on the hurdles one man in Alabama faced while trying to make a product entirely in America and what it suggests about the challenges ahead.
https://youtu.be/GTeaQApcwcM

How Weight-Loss Drugs Blew Out the U.S. Trade Deficit
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/how-weight-loss-drugs-blew-out-the-u-s-trade-deficit-2d8c668c
Shipments have propelled Ireland, a country of 5.4 million, to the second-largest goods-trade imbalance with the U.S., behind China. 

Related:

Disentangling trade policy uncertainty and equity market performance
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/disentangling-trade-policy-uncertainty-and-equity-market-performance

Corporate Tax Loopholes

This Loophole Buried in Trump’s Bill Is Anything but Beautiful
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opinion/budget-policy-bill-trump-manufacturing.html 

The Center-Left Now Supports Immigration Controls

A Progressive Future Depends on National Identity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/border-policy-immigration-labour-party.html
Those less affluent voters have questioned the impact of mass migration for years, worried about its impact on housing, public services, wages and communities. The response of urban progressives in Britain, as in other parts of Europe and the United States, has often been to denounce working-class voters as narrow-minded or racist. It should hardly be surprising that voters responded by switching their political allegiances. Immigration, more than any other issue, symbolizes the wedge between center-left parties and their traditional class base. 

A Stuck Housing Market

Why the housing market is so stuck, in 4 charts
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-housing-market-is-so-stuck-in-4-charts-100054853.html
High mortgage rates, high prices and economic uncertainty all play a role in weak home sales. 

Easier Path for Aspiring Accountants

Aspiring CPAs Consider Ditching Grad-School Plans as States Revamp Laws
https://www.wsj.com/articles/aspiring-cpas-consider-ditching-grad-school-plans-as-states-revamp-laws-203c4016
Moves to combat an accountant shortage by allowing less schooling could spur college graduates to skip a master’s to start making money sooner.