One of FiveThirtyEight’s goals has always been to get people to think more carefully about probability. When we’re forecasting an upcoming election or sporting event, we’ll go to great lengths to ...

• Recent census data from the University of Virginia’s Cooper Center shows that about 70 percent of the U.S. population will live in the 15 largest states in 2040. • While population projections need ...

For decades now, both of America's major political parties have been dedicated to cutting taxes for the richest people in the country. They've also been wildly successful in implementing a massive ...

Recent polls have shown that most Americans support increasing taxes on wealthy people but a new survey suggests that they might feel differently about the issue if they suddenly became rich. In ...

In a television interview this month, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez floated the idea of raising the top marginal income tax rate as high as 70 percent, almost double the US’s current top tax rate ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. After a long and painful existence, the “Myth that 70 Percent of Change Initiatives Fail” was laid to rest alongside other tenacious old ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had barely been sworn in before she attracted widespread attention for floating significantly higher maximum tax rates on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Let’s take a closer ...

What contributes to higher levels of workplace stress and isolation, and is strongly correlated with job dissatisfaction and people quitting? According to research by Mental Health America, which ...

There are times when companies move too swiftly into a decision that hurts them. There are also occasions when they’re too slow and they fail. Jeff Bezos lives by a rule that addresses that problem.

Even with rising wages and falling mortgage rates, Americans can't afford a home in more than 70 percent of the country. Out of 473 U.S. counties analyzed in a report, 335 listed median home prices ...

Asked earlier in January by “60 Minutes,” how she might pay for a Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted that top marginal tax rates in the mid-20th century were “as high as 60 percent or ...