The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz

The elemental foe

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 June 2024 English

Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.

Time to think about a second Trump term

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 June 2024 English

What will it mean for the U.S. and the world?

The age of SASEA

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 June 2024 English

South Asia and Southeast Asia are globalization's next frontier.

Yes, of course crime is way down

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 June 2024 English

The people telling you crime isn't falling are feeding you a line.

The triumph of electromagnetism over thermodynamics

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2024 English

How electricity is replacing combustion as humanity's key tool for mastering the physical world.

At least five interesting things for your weekend (#41)

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 June 2024 English

Soviet America (or not); the energy revolution; Trump's tax cuts; the Build-Nothing Country; macro data mysteries

Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips!

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 June 2024 English

A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me

China's demographics will be fine through mid-century

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 June 2024 English

There is no imminent crisis.

Noam Chomsky and the end of "America bad"

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 June 2024 English

One towering intellectual defined our thinking on foreign policy for a generation. He got a lot of things wrong.