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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an anti-institutional era, does any institution face more dangerous attacks than our Constitution’s judicial branch? Today, it faces outlandish political attacks from both the right and the ...

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 ...

How Does Semiconductor Trade Work? How is it that South Korea—one of the world’s most important makers of the chips critical for goods from cars to computers—imports more semiconductors from ...

The Trump administration can handle a little more risk—a little more balance—and lead us to airline security policies that save more lives by further opening the skies.

A popular myth peddled by populists on both the left and right is that America has been in steady decline since the 1970s. A more honest accounting of the facts reveals a different story—one of ...