Dwight Eisenhower’s advice about plans and planning is still relevant today On June 6, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “the…
By Brent Orrell | June 5, 2024
The chip manufacturer Nvidia reported its first-quarter earnings last week—and it was another blockbuster. For the first three months of 2024, Nvidia booked $26 billion in revenue, up 18 percent from the…
By Will Rinehart | June 4, 2024
The practice of think-tankery provides one very little feedback. It’s a bit like shouting into the wind. One can’t be sure of being heard, and the winds of malign policy…
By Jim Harper | June 4, 2024
Today, npj Natural Hazards, a journal in the Nature family of journals, officially published my new paper, “Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters.” The paper shows — irrefutably in my view —…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | June 4, 2024
Technical debt, the accumulation of shortcuts and compromises in software systems, is an issue across industries with consequences ranging from system failures and security breaches to hindered innovation. The Wall…
By Shane Tews | | June 3, 2024
Net neutrality is a sometimes well-intentioned, but always misguided attempt to regulate the internet under the guise of fairness and equality. Except for a brief moment during the Obama administration,…
By Mark Jamison | May 31, 2024
“I’m different from you,” the advanced artificial intelligence chatbot named Samantha tells Joaquin Phoenix’s protagonist in her low, sultry voice in director Spike Jonze’s 2013 hit film Her. “This doesn’t make me love…
By Michael M. Rosen | May 31, 2024
It’s relatively rare to peer directly into the constitutional thinking of sitting US Supreme Court justices. Although such glimpses surface most visibly in the opinions justices join or author, they also are…
By Clay Calvert | May 30, 2024
Oh, what a tangled web they weave when first the managers of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the New York State Common Retirement Fund practice to have it both ways. The problem…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 29, 2024
Last week, I testified before the Senate Committee on the Budget in a hearing titled, Droughts, Dollars, and Decisions: Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate.1 The hearing was the 18th in the Committee’s series…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | May 29, 2024
Reclassification opponents have long warned that net neutrality could be a Trojan horse for broadband rate regulation. Partly in response to this criticism, the Federal Communications Commission’s recent Title II…
By Daniel Lyons | May 29, 2024
Summary The Environmental Protection Agency in its “framing questions” on greenhouse gasemissions from natural gas combustion turbines at electric generating stations asserts that suchGHG emissions are important “pollutants” in the…
By Benjamin Zycher | May 29, 2024
I recently listened to Jacob Siegel’s interview on The Fifth Column podcast and couldn’t help but reflect on the power of stories. I now recognize, some six years later, that the Cambridge Analytica…
By Will Rinehart | May 28, 2024
Blockchain technology has revolutionized global finance, playing a crucial role in bypassing traditional intermediaries to facilitate humanitarian aid in conflict zones like Ukraine. This financial transformation paves the way for…
By Shane Tews | May 27, 2024
How much can we trust artificial intelligence (AI)? How much could AI transform an industry as stodgy as healthcare, where other technologies have failed time and time again? These questions…
By Brian J. Miller | Ted Cho | Robert D. Glatter | May 24, 2024