A recent federal appellate court decision in favor of a public high school student’s online, off-campus First Amendment speech rights reins in a school’s authority to police and punish offensive ...

Against the background of the parlous state of US and Japanese public finances, there are already clear signs suggesting that next year we will see the return of the bond market vigilantes in a way ...

In this blog post, I briefly discuss its direct costs, its fairness, the fraud it engenders, and its adverse consequences for work incentives and for the cost and functioning of the health care system ...

I have NCAR to thank for my entire career. I worked at NCAR as a FORTRAN programmer in the late 1980s while an undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Colorado, just down the hill. NCAR is ...

President Donald Trump played cheerleader for the US economy in a prime-time address last night. But in the end, facts on the ground will matter more than words on a teleprompter.

In the days and weeks after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Jews around the world were horrified to find that antisemitism—once believed marginalised under the principle of “never again”—was ...

Texas has been taking us all on a wild ride for the midterm elections. There’s obviously the gerrymandering wars that were touched off in Austin by the GOP’s mid-decade land grab. We’re a long way ...

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking the time to look back and analyze some of the most notable developments in tech policy.

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Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s biggest consumer electronics firm—illustrates that most of their ...

Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that is, below the level needed to sustain the population in the long ...