When Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Washington next week, artificial intelligence will be near the top of the agenda. The dialogue that the US and China began earlier this year has gained urgency as ...

Boosting economic growth in any sort of sustained way is really hard. The American public should always be skeptical of policy ideas promising to, say, add a full percentage point to real GDP growth, ...

The best way to raise a child is within a committed marriage. Every marriage is different, but one of the best and most time-tested models is the one associated with the mid-20th century in America: a ...

The dust from major fights takes time to settle. Judging by the fighting that flared in recent days, the US-Iran war is not yet over. And the global implications of that conflict — its effects on ...

Something ominous is happening in the western Pacific, and the US isn’t ready for it. Earlier this month, the Chinese Coast Guard contacted three ships in international waters near eastern Taiwan, ...

Indian policymakers and analysts frequently blame the external environment for economic problems, the dramatic US-Iran war being only the most recent example. In fact, the Indian economy has not ...

Publishing in scholarly journals is a critical driver of tenure and promotion decisions, often making or breaking professors’ careers. Furthermore, these scholarly publications can have a profound ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Social Security retirement Trust Fund is exhausted in 2032, old-age and survivor benefits in total must be cut by 24 percent, according to current projections. This is generally thought to be ...