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Coverage of AI keeps swinging between bubble-talk and singularity-talk, when the more useful question is much narrower: which specific tasks are reliable enough to actually delegate today, and which aren’t.
Read MoreTransit projects in many major cities cost several times more per mile than comparable projects abroad — and the real culprit is a planning process with too many sequential veto points, not any single villain.
Read MorePolling averages get treated as precise predictions when they’re really probabilistic ranges — and the gap between how polls are conducted and how they’re reported is doing real damage to public understanding.
Read MoreThe decline of local news isn’t just a media story — the civic costs, from lower voter turnout to higher municipal borrowing rates, are becoming measurable, and philanthropy alone won’t fill the gap.
Read MoreA string of damaged undersea cables in sensitive waters has drawn new government attention to critical internet infrastructure that’s nearly impossible to physically defend at scale.
Read MoreGlobal displacement has hit record levels, but humanitarian funding hasn’t kept pace, forcing aid agencies into painful triage decisions about which crises get support.
Read MoreWith big multilateral trade talks stalled, countries are increasingly striking smaller, faster bilateral deals — trading a unified framework for speed, and adding a growing patchwork of complexity along the way.
Read MoreDiplomats are racing to update decades-old international agreements for the deep sea, satellite orbits, and the Arctic — even as commercial activity in those spaces moves faster than negotiations can keep up.
Read MoreExport controls on advanced chipmaking technology have reshaped a once-open global semiconductor market, and building genuine self-sufficiency is proving to be a much longer project than the controls themselves.
Read MoreCampaigns are pouring an unprecedented share of ad budgets into creator partnerships and short-form video, chasing voters who’ve largely abandoned traditional television.
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