State of the Union: Iran announced new plans for control over the Strait of Hormuz, and continuing Israeli strikes left at least twelve dead in Lebanon. The post Iran War Day 192: Americans Have Paid Over $100 Billion in Higher Energy Costs Since War Began appeared first on The American Conservative .
As of Monday, the Iran War has cost Americans over $100 billion in higher energy prices, according to an estimate from Brown University. Brown’s Iran War Energy Cost Tracker , which attempts to measure the burden of increased gasoline and diesel costs on American consumers, shows this figure rising by around $1 million every two minutes. Compared to the prewar baseline, average gas and diesel prices are up by 39 percent and 61 percent, respectively. Mohsen Rezaei, the head of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, said Sunday that Iran would introduce a new “restricted zone” around the Strait of Hormuz. Rezaei said this area will “begin from the U.S. Navy’s blockade line and extend into parts of the Persian Gulf,” and…Open
The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning. Why it matters: Energy inflation shows up across the entire economy, and the recent surge in diesel prices in particular threatens to have a dramatic impact on freight and travel in the weeks and months to come. By the numbers: The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker from Brown's Watson School says higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. - Most of that is gas, though the diesel burden is rising faster of late. - On Friday, diesel hit an all-time record…
The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning. Why it matters: Energy inflation shows up across the entire economy, and the recent surge in diesel prices in particular threatens to have a dramatic impact on freight and travel in the weeks and months to come. By the numbers: The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker from Brown's Watson School says higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. - Most of that is gas, though the diesel burden is rising faster of late. - On Friday, diesel hit an all-time record…Open
A former Justice Department lawyer says Trump administration leaders ignored findings that elite schools, including Brown and Columbia, hadn’t broken the law as they pressed them into deals.
MS NOW exclusively reports that a Department of Justice whistleblower is telling Congress the Trump administration predetermined the outcomes of its antisemitism investigations into Harvard, Columbia and Brown University. MS NOW Justice and Intelligence Reporter Ken Dilanian joins Stephanie Ruhle to share more details.
The president, Christina H. Paxson, led the campus for over a decade, but in recent years faced protests, political pressure and a shooting that killed two students.
A Brown University economics professor says a take-home exam intended to accommodate students traumatized by a campus tragedy instead exposed what he believes is one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted cheating scandals in Ivy League history. According to Inside Higher Ed , Brown economics professor Roberto Serrano said he became convinced that widespread AI use had occurred after students in his Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory course earned unusually high scores on a take-home midterm administered during the spring semester. Serrano had converted the exam from an in-person test to a take-home assignment after the December shooting at Brown University that killed two students, hoping to reduce stress for…Open
The eminent historian died last week. The post Gordon Wood, the Bard of the American Revolution appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Gordon Wood, the Bard of the American Revolution The eminent historian died last week. The preeminent historian of the American Founding, Gordon Wood, died last week as the result of a traffic accident. Wood, a long-time professor at Brown University, had a profound and prolific effect upon the historiography of the American Revolution and the Founding in an academic career spanning six decades. Significantly, he was the first leading historian to emphasize the importance of republican thought and principles, both classical and modern, to 18th-century America, a tradition that later gave way to the totalizing force of equality…Open
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a 14 percent drop in overdose deaths in 2025.
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a 14 percent drop in overdose deaths in 2025. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Preliminary government data shows that approximately 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2025, marking a 14 percent decline compared to the previous year. This is the third consecutive annual drop, bringing the total back to pre-pandemic levels seen in 2019. DETAIL: Health officials said deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids saw some of the steepest drops, but fatalities tied to cocaine and methamphetamine also declined. Experts credited expanded access to naloxone, increased addiction treatment, opioid settlement funding, and shifts in the illegal drug…Open
