Congressional Democrats keep choosing lawfare over dialogue. It hasn’t worked yet. As the 2025 New York mayoral election played out, President Donald Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani as a “100% Communist ...

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” It’s a great Oscar Wilde line, one policymakers should always keep front of mind. Be ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce this month released its 2025 bulletin on outbound investment, and, surprise, things look good. Outbound investment climbed 11 percent past $213 billion, a new record. You ...

Using detailed revenue-cycle data, we characterize the timing of billing, claims adjudication, and insurer payments across major insurance types. We decompose payment delays into the portions ...

AI is evolving as a technology, as an industry, and as an instrument of national power. The early years of large language models were defined by a race to train ever-larger systems in centralized data ...

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 ...

In 2026, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent estimates, US farmers and ranchers will receive about $55 billion in federal subsidies. A substantial share of these outlays ...

Wars have a way of killing half-truths and lazy cliches. The present conflict in the Middle East is exploding the persistent myth that President Donald Trump’s America is withdrawing from the world.

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

Khamenei’s death creates a power vacuum in Iran: constitutional succession may stall, the IRGC could seize control, and opposition leaders may need protection to govern. Khamenei Is Dead. Who Runs ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...