The legislation to rescind $1.1 billion for the public media system means that the CPB is essentially an empty shell. The fact that the system has alienated a large swathe of the country is the ...

In the annals of history, the first half of 2025 will be remembered for many things. I’d venture that very few are aware of ...

The digitization of practically everything makes modernization of the US statistical system—including improvements to data collection and measurement and investment in statistical agencies—imperative.

Few people are aware of the fact that “climate change” means very different things in science and in policy. That difference exposes the fundamental incoherence of climate policy, highlighted by the ...

Amid the current global cycle of populism and polarization, Thailand was one of the first democracies to begin spiraling downward. The polarizing populist at the center of this democracy-damaging ...

Steve Jobs once likened computers to “bicycles for the mind,” tools that amplify human mental capabilities. A new NBER working paper redeploys that famous metaphor to make a compelling argument about ...

Though the 2025 AI Action Plan is ambitious, the plan overlooks several high-stakes gaps—areas where evolving risks may require more proactive federal involvement.

Yesterday, as rumored, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that he would recognize a Palestinian state. “We,” he wrote on X, “will win the peace.” Every word but “the” in that statement is a ...

The Air Force’s next-generation Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program is racked by cost overruns and calls to eliminate its funding. And yet Sentinel’s troubled development ...

Of all his radical ideas, Zohran Mamdani’s proposed government-owned supermarkets exemplify his socialist core. He’s right about the city’s grocery problem: Too many New Yorkers lack ...

Should the world be so dependent on chips made in a country on a geopolitical faultline between China and America?