Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

A Brookings study projects $10.3 trillion in investment through 2032, as data centers reshape the labor market, financial system and energy economy.

Re “Trump’s Politics Are Changing How History and Civics Are Taught” (news article, Nov. 7): As the historian John Hope Franklin once observed, “The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections and even prejudices of a given generation.”

On October 13, 1775, America’s Continental Congress passed a resolution to establish the present-day U.S. Navy with a “swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men.” After the American ...

The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close. President Donald Trump has threatened to use the ...

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The United States has been issuing passports since 1782, but the document has changed significantly in both appearance and function over the centuries, says Arizona State University professor Patrick Bixby, who wrote License to Travel: A Cultural History ...