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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

The artificial intelligence revolution is seemingly everywhere except in the economic statistics. That’s the conclusion from JPMorgan strategists, who have scoured the macro data for green ...

Generative AI may live up to the hype. Such is the hopeful verdict from a new Federal Reserve paper evaluating whether AI models are economic fads or foundational breakthroughs. The authors ask ...

While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation safeguards an individual’s right to be digitally “forgotten”, what assurances exist regarding an individual’s—or a society’s—“right to be ...