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 ...

An ambitious look at how the twentieth century’s great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their classic book “This Time Is Different: Eight Hundred Years of Financial Folly,” Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart found that over the centuries, a high public debt level has been ...

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.