Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations is still grounded in strong profits and ...

If universities hope to reclaim their essential role, they must lead again: speaking when silence tempts, teaching when slogans seduce, and remembering that genuine neutrality isn't the absence of ...

Rather than asking, "What's your p(doom)?" we should be asking, "Under what conditions does AI risk increase or decrease?" ...

Yesterday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behaved reprehensibly. Their speeches before several hundred assembled military commanders and their senior ...

France, whose public finances have become unsustainable and whose politics have become dysfunctional, could pose an existential threat to the Euro. Being the Eurozone’s second-largest economy and ...

The US Supreme Court’s June ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton wasn’t the first in which the Court avoided applying strict scrutiny to uphold regulations affecting non-obscene, lawful sexual ...

Australia previous set and missed impossible targets for emissions reduction. The outcome for the 2035 emissions reduction targets will inevitably be the same as for the 2020 targets — a big miss. As ...

History suggests diffusion matters as much as invention. Unlike earlier ”general-purpose technologies” that took decades to lift growth, early evidence suggests AI’s lag may be shorter. If so, Walmart ...

Accurately assessing property values is essential for ensuring that localities have the revenue to support public services like schools, roads, and law enforcement. However, traditional assessment ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

On September 16, 2025, the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the purpose and use of the tax-exempt status widespread in the hospital sector. In this ...