Footnotes From the Archives News in Brief The Trump Administration Will Pay Farmers $16 Billion for Its Trade War The announcement comes amid criticism of farm subsidies, which exceed revenue Trump has taken in from tariffs on Chinese imports. Emily Moon
Social Justice #OWS: What Took So Long? Psychologists tie the reluctance to protest Wall Street bailouts to a deep-seated need to justify the status quo. Tom Jacobs
Economics Did the Stimulus Quench America’s Economic Thirst? Washington dumped torrents of stimulus dollars across the American landscape to keep the U.S. economy from dying on the vine, but most of the spending won't bear fruit until 2015. Stanford Kay
Education The Financial Carnage on Campus Amid the destruction wrought by the global financial crisis, should American colleges and universities be seeking a bailout plan of their own? Sameer Pandya