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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 July 2024 I wrote a five-part series on data center energy use. Two of those posts focused on the thorny question of how data centers would contract for power in settings where utility ...

Too often, the same authoritarians whom Trump praises interpret his admiration as a green light to target Americans on American soil.

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 ...

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 ...

If the EU wants its digital economy to flourish, it should spend less time redistributing data and more time removing the shackles that keep its businesses from competing on a global stage.