Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weather, a variety of factors are causing power bills to climb, including the high cost of natural gas used to generate electricity and soaring demand from data centers.

The debate over how much teachers and parents should be responsible for paying for school supplies is being enflamed this year by rising costs, tariffs and less funding for public education.

In the multi-part documentary “My Undesirable Friends,” filmmaker Julia Loktev follows a group of independent journalists in Moscow who've been labeled "foreign agents" by the Putin regime.

The Inca society kept records by encoding information into a system of knotted strings. A new analysis of hair woven into these strings suggests that this record-keeping wasn't just an activity by rich elites, but that commoners could do it as well.

Stars are starting their own companies and marketing products directly to their fans. We talked to people following and making these deals, including John Legend who started his own skincare brand.

EJ Antoni is the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation and has a history of criticizing the BLS.

Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former US trade representative and Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman about how global trade moves forward in the midst of President Trump's tariffs.

Daron Acemoglu has researched how successful nations rely on strong, reliable institutions.