As easy as it would be to abandon Somalia, the IS and al Qaeda affiliates in the country pose too great an external attack risk to ignore. The US should carefully engage with more legitimate, local ...

Despite widespread claims to the contrary, institutional investors are not responsible for the housing affordability crisis. The real problem is insufficient supply.

Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few. But we live in a time when too ...

As AI starts to replace mental tasks, it begs the question of whether the transition will come at the cost of thinking skills essential to a healthy human existence. If it does—and evidence is tending ...

I’ll never stand down from hating “artificial intelligence” as a meaningless term, but there is a net positive when people can quickly call on a source that is often going to be generally accurate.

Recent cuts at the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health were less like targeted and strategic restructuring and more like a broad stroke to shrink the federal enterprise ...

Pushing teams past sustainable limits may raise output in the short-term, but it also reduces performance, raises error rates, and increases health risks. Hard-core programming might get a headline ...

Real disruption of the prison communications market is underway. By leveraging modern technology and rejecting the perverse incentives that have long plagued this industry, new entrants are ...

AI’s story will be about productivity. Generative AI is projected to raise labor productivity in advanced economies by roughly 15 percent once integrated into daily work, improving incomes and living ...

America’s highly compromised public finances require that it do everything to promote economic growth to help manage the debt burden. History is likely to harshly judge the Trump 2.0 administration’s ...

Although President Trump accidently misspoke during his August 11th press conference when he said he was “going to Russia” to meet Vladimir Putin on Friday, that is exactly what the Kremlin and ...

Yes, we can. But why don’t journalists do it? The reason this Substack exists is to inform the public and to promote good policy. It’s also to vent my frustrations with bad journalism, particularly ...