Justin Fox

Since 2016, the US has been seeing declines in the number of new foreign students coming to study at colleges and universities here. Still, there didn’t seem to be too much cause for alarm. The sharp rise in foreign-student enrollments in the first half of the 2010s had been the product in part…

The coronavirus pandemic, and the accompanying mass shift to doing white-collar work from home, has led to reports of real estate frenzies in scenic places. The Kingston, New York, metropolitan area — aka Ulster County — which stretches from the Hudson River into the Catskill Mountains, had the…

Last year, there were 38 days when US utilities got more electricity from hydroelectric, wind and solar generation than from coal, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. So far this year, according to the IEEFA and my own crunching of US Energy Information…

If voters opt in November to toss Donald Trump out of the White House, as polls seem to indicate they will, he will probably leave office with the worst economic growth record of any president since Herbert Hoover. That is, if real gross domestic product grows at a spectacular 18% annual pace…

The US has reached a landmark of sorts in its so far not very successful battle with the virus that causes Covid-19. Most Americans now know someone who has been infected. This is according to tracking surveys conducted by Navigator Research, a polling project with ties to various left-leaning…

After much back and forth in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a consensus is emerging that the overall risk of dying for those infected with the disease — at least so far, in a population with an age distribution roughly similar to that of the US or Europe — is about 6 or 7 in 1,000. …

The Covid-19 epidemic that raged through New York City in late winter and early spring is starting to feel like ancient history. The disease has mostly moved on to other locales. Life in the city is far from normal, but tons livelier than it was in March and April. One of the many advantages to…

During a smallpox outbreak in March 1662, officials in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of New York’s Long Island, tried to cut off movement between the town and surrounding Indian villages. “It is ordered that no Indian shall come to town into the street after sufficient notice upon penalty of…