Catherine Rampell / Washington Post Scientists and entrepreneurs are developing new technologies to create meat from animal tissue cultivated in labs. This is different from Beyond Meat ...

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism.

Subsidize U.S. manufacturing? Add training programs? Catherine Rampell / Washington Post Turns out that with One Weird Trick, politicians could massively increase Americans’ earnings ...

Republican vice-presidential nominee JD ... term that typically refers to lying about a military service record. Catherine Rampell / Washington Post But the actual perpetrators of “stolen ...

Catherine Rampell Washington Post The biggest threat to your health isn’t your inability to afford an inhaler or to get that weird mole checked, the GOP argues. It’s everything else about ...

That’s a small miracle — but one that could vanish if lawmakers don’t act soon. Catherine Rampell / Washington Post The share of Americans without health insurance coverage was just 8% in ...

Republican politicians plan to take food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich. That might sound like a stale, Scroogy stereotype. But it’s not an exaggeration ...