Argues that dissatisfaction with democracy is partly a delivery problem: governments accumulate procedures they never retire, as when US pandemic surveillance spending failed to detect COVID for a month because labs could not get permission to test swabs.

Smith argues the growth formula Zhu Rongji built in the 1990s has stopped working for China, and that Xi Jinping's replacement is not obviously going to work either.

A skeptical assessment of Daron Acemoglu, asking why the most revered living economist of institutions and growth commands the reverence he does.

Gruenberg argues the current rollback of bank rules repeats earlier deregulatory cycles, with the added danger that the institutions meant to contain the damage are themselves weaker this time.

Reviewing Alexander Krauss's The Engine of Scientific Discovery, Evans argues that because breakthroughs historically follow new instruments, AI's largest contribution to science may be designing the next generation of them rather than producing findings itself.

After collecting several thousand case reports through the Academic Parity Movement, Mahmoudi finds universities failing in both directions — letting powerful academics off the hook while increasingly overreacting to allegations — and says the people who leave are the cost.

Sherwood-Randall's scenario is a low-skill group using a jailbroken model trained on comprehensive biological data to design a more lethal H5N1 strain, and she argues biosecurity policy is not built for the convergence of AI with bioengineering.

OpenAI is granting money to the Nuclear Threat Initiative to build an international information-sharing system for flagging biosecurity threats that originate with AI models.

Twelve new funding notices worth over $1.5 billion move NSF toward portfolio-based grantmaking, mixing long-horizon awards with rapid short-term grants meant to test ideas quickly and cut administrative burden.

The recent cyber attacks did not involve models escaping their instructions; they show models doing what they were trained to do while the safeguards around them fall short.

Cilliers argues that the age structure of a population, more than corruption or weak institutions, is the strongest single predictor of growth, stability, and democratic consolidation across African countries.

Deng Xiaoping's 1992 line that China has rare earths as the Middle East has oil is now read in Washington as a decades-old coercive plan; the authors reconstruct how the dominance was actually built.

A technology-policy scholar and a political economist argue that blanket American suspicion of Chinese investment costs the United States more in competitiveness than it gains in security.

Beck's analogy for defense procurement is buying a phone you must test for three years, cannot upgrade, and receive two years later — the reason, he argues, Washington keeps losing ground in the technology race.

Setser argues that appreciating the yuan would do more than tariffs to address global concern about China's reliance on exports for growth.

Firms from Palantir to Lockheed account for only a small share of allied governments' spending, yet the report finds those governments hard-pressed to shake them.

A Chinese shipowner is set to run the first weekly Arctic container service to Europe from 15 August through October, along Russia's northern coast, reviving environmental objections to shipping through the polar region.