The most important economic effect of artificial intelligence may not be that machines become more capable. It may be that people become more capable when they work alongside AI.

It is true that one swallow does not make a summer. However, Kevin Warsh’s impressive performance yesterday at his first Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as the Fed’s new Chair ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

The Donald Trump era has scrambled the relationship between partisanship and many of the most important social axes of American life—class, gender, region, and now even race and ethnicity. Since 2016, ...

Researchers and decision makers in Beijing and the West pay close attention to many major Chinese population trends, including its pronounced sub-replacement fertility, its shrinking manpower totals, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced Americans across the country to reconsider their community preferences. Today, many Americans would prefer to live in small towns or rural areas rather than denser urban ...

Housing has long been a cornerstone of the American dream and the nation’s economy, but a supply–demand imbalance has pushed the U.S. market into crisis, driving up prices and limiting workforce ...

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 ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is among the largest safety-net programs for low-income households in the US. After beginning as a small program—then titled the Food Stamp Program ...

This volume examines the state of caregiving leave in the United States before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Most adults will be responsible for caregiving during their lifetime, yet little public ...