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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 ...
Some are treating Mamdani’s rise as a chance to prove the far-left’s ideas don’t work. That posture is wrong. Wishing for the failure of a great city is not the mark of a serious governing movement—it ...
Debating whether SpaceX and similar firms should face higher tax bills is hardly unreasonable. Yet that misses the bigger picture. An important way taxpayers should assess the return on such public ...
Later this week here at THB I’ll be publishing two important pieces — one a guest post from a climate scientist on how his ...
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 ...
If fact checkers want to keep their title, they should return to the craft: testing fact claims against verifiable evidence. If they’d rather referee opinion disputes, they should drop the ...
As students begin to head back to school, American higher education is in its most fraught position in recent memory. Most prominent among the challenges is President Trump’s pressure campaign ...
AOL, as a leading ISP innovating and challenging incumbent providers—and others like it—has played an important role in internet evolution. While dial-up may become a memory, its legacy will live on ...
The GENIUS Act creates stablecoins with near-zero transaction costs but poor privacy protections, where issuers profit while consumers bear hidden costs.
It would a threat to our prosperity if the Department of Commerce reported suspect trade and investment data but, if it happens, we can check Eurostat and Canada’s trade numbers. Data falsification ...