The latest Yahoo News/YouGov results illustrate the powerful effect that partisanship can have on people’s perception of reality.

The first reading of the S&P U.S. services index climbed to a 32-month high of 57.0 in November from 55 in the prior month. Senior executives said the prospect of lower interest rates and a more pro-business White House made them more optimistic.

The shift in expectations about the economy’s future was driven by Republicans getting happier as Democrats turned sour.

In analyzing the loss, Harris’s team also credits the Trump campaign with reaching sporadic voters, especially young men, through new media channels.

Every four years, we elect a new president to lead our nation. Also referred to as "the leader of the free world," this person is often judged and associated with how the economy is doing when

Liberal journalists are rich and isolated in a bubble full of rich journalists. It is no surprise that they didn't understand how voters viewed the economy.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the economy, not racism or misogyny, was the deciding factor in Donald Trump's electoral victory.

Donald Trump’s trade plan for 2025 would hit China and Mexico hard as well as cause global damage. But he will struggle to implement it in full

"The U.S economy is the envy of the world," said Rutgers Business School finance professor Parul Jain. "Why didn’t that message get through to the electorate?” “There’s always a big lag between objective economic indicators and public opinion ...

Nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants are the backbone of some industries, and they pay billions in taxes for services they never receive.

While the incoming administration may not know exactly how to fix healthcare, the opportunity for substantive, system-wide change may be in front of us.

Howard W. French is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a longtime foreign correspondent. His latest book is Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. X: @hofrench