Europe is warming: ~0.5°C per decade since the 1980s. Figure 1 shows the continent’s annual count of days since 1950 with “strong heat stress” — a feels-like temperature of 32°C or higher. The trend ...

You know what a powerful influence AI could be—on our economy, our military, our society. You probably don’t know there’s something more powerful: China’s drive to steal technology and our utter ...

The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has hit $2.6 trillion. Verifiable investment recovered from COVID and zero-COVID but has not gone back anywhere close to ...

The most important economic effect of artificial intelligence may not be that machines become more capable. It may be that people become more capable when they work alongside AI.

As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock ...

In some quarters of K–12 education, perhaps most, the increased focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) is viewed as an unambiguously positive development—a welcome course correction after more ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Turkey’s blackmail of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over Sweden’s accession is the latest episode to raise questions about whether Turkey’s belongs in the alliance. Certainly, NATO ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

President Donald Trump has set forth an ambitious plan to reform the federal approach to immigration policy and enforcement. This plan can broadly be categorized into two overarching goals: (1) to ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has seen dramatic changes in immigration policy, resulting in a sharp slowdown in net migration to the United States. We expect the pattern of ...