Jordan Weissmann

Why worry about Match.com? Let's talk about about America's dearth of educated men. More »

Everyone needs a little ray of hope. More »

The downturn didn't wreck the value of a college degree. In fact, it barely dented it. More »

How the unpatented research of a brilliant food sciences professor may have helped make the fast-food icon possible. More »

Governor Bob McDonnell has come up with a wrongheaded fix for a serious long-term budget problem. More »

Online learning may have had a breakout year in 2012, but the professoriate is still skeptical of its value. More »

Price tag: $18 billion a year. More »

Business schools are handing out more diplomas than ever while pay for grads is stagnating. More »

The 2012 job market looked a whole lot like the 2011 job market, except for one huge difference. More »

Their prices have risen faster than healthcare, housing, or college tuition itself. More »

Are you a liberal? Are you disappointed in the fiscal cliff deal? Here's a little bit of solace. More »

Northwestern economist Robert Gordon caused a stir this year by arguing that America's best days of economic growth were well behind it. Here's his argument. More »

Barring some sort of last minute fix, you'll be paying more for your pizza, latte, and pretty much anything else that uses dairy. More »

It would help weed out irresponsible gun owners and force the others to bear the cost of violence. More »

Consumers kept their wallets closed during Christmas as they fretted over Washington's dysfunction. More »

Jobs are just one piece of the formula. More »

We kid, mostly. More »

...or maybe it just makes you more rational. More »

The group bills itself as the voice of America's gun owners, but it also has deep and growing financial ties to the firearms industry. More »

Today's tragedy in Connecticut comes at the end of a significant ten-year pop in sales of the sorts of guns that tend to get used in crimes. More »