American Airlines just added a new restriction to basic economy: Its flyers won't earn miles or Loyalty Points on no-frills tickets.

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Join the Americas Program and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce for a discussion on the opportunities to strengthen North American economic security in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. The economies ...

This article appears in the February 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. As America prepares to transition to a new presidential administration, I want to take stock of the ...

Kevin Hoover had his pick of the world’s best universities. A budding economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, he had been accepted into Ph.D. programs at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and ...

One of the most prestigious scholarly associations in the U.S. has barred former Harvard President Larry Summers for life, appearing to condemn him over his ties to late disgraced financier Jeffrey ...

Dr. James Bridgeforth holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech, the University of South Alabama, the University of Southern ...