In these seven graphs, you see the entire debate. Americans want new background checks. They're supportive of the Senate push, though it's become a partisan issue. But they don't think it will happen.

As Congress works on one of the most important pieces of economic legislation in a generation, a Washington research group has pointed out that more than 8 in 10 members of Congress don't have a ...

The FT's US economics editor Sam Fleming talks to several leading economists on whether being versed in the theory is a basic requirement for a Fed chair. to myFT July 20, 2017 ...

The journal publishes 11 issues containing articles on a broad range of topics. Once composed primarily of college and university professors in economics, the American Economic Association (AEA) now ...

By Anna Cooban and Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for her research into women’s income and ...

When Senator Mark Pryor voted against a gun background check compromise, he was taking a measured political risk. Even as an anti-gun group announces a plan to spend $350,000 on ads criticizing ...