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 ...

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.

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 ...

Five Figures. Every month, I will share five (or so) of the most provocative, interesting, or challenging figures to have recently crossed my desk. Five Figures adds to the features and content ...

As India seeks to secure the Indian Ocean basin, it should leverage positive feelings toward India to support former British protectorates like Somaliland and South Yemen in their quests for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 a new Fed chair might immediately lower short-term rates, the longer-term rates that matter to households and businesses – rates for business loans and home mortgages, for example – are ...

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 ...

The U.S. Embassy for Yemen, meanwhile, operates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, almost 850 miles away. Geographically, that is akin to running the U.S. Embassy for the United Kingdom from Zagreb ...