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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...