China surprised everyone Tuesday night by acknowledging GDP growth well below 5 percent. The official rate is 4.3 percent for the second quarter and 4.7 percent for the first half, to just over $10.1 ...

I collect books; it’s a big part of my life as an academic. Whenever I travel—whether around New York, across the country, or overseas—I almost always come home with another volume or two. My home and ...

It’s totally understandable that anyone who supports an economic system built around the idea of free enterprise—private businesses making decisions based on price and profit signals in a competitive ...

Even as the Chinese government intensifies supply-chain coercion, it continues to deepen the trade and investment linkages that sustain its global economic centrality. Audrye Wong’s new book, ...

There is no empirical evidence to support the idea that climate change is causing an increase in either violent tornado incidence or tornado-related damage.

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 ...

Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. Treasury $12.7 billion over the first 12 days of the war.1 If we project that daily cost ...

The legalization of recreational marijuana sale and use has spread dramatically since it was first adopted by Colorado and Washington in 2012. As of 2025, 24 states and the District of Columbia have ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence has officially arrived in state capitals. In 2025 alone, state legislatures considered more than 1,000 AI-related bills, with 38 states enacting roughly 100 new laws. That ...

The China Global Investment Tracker is the most complete public record of the country’s investment and construction worldwide, with more than 4,300 transactions from 2005 through 2022.