Opinion | DeSantis Shrank in Ramaswamy’s Shadow
In a crowded debate, you can tell which candidates are seen as the greatest threat because they take the most incoming fire from their rivals. During the Republican presidential primary…
How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
In China the pension akin to Social Security in the United States pays about $410 a month to seniors who live in cities, and only $25 a month in the…
How a Harvard Professor Became the World’s Leading Alien Hunter
If Loeb’s mother had been around at that point, he said, she would have tried to dissuade him from his late-career turn toward alien hunting. “She would say, ‘Why would…
Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans
For decades, Walla Walla High School in the wheat basket of Washington State has maintained an old red wooden barn on campus where students learn a venerable farming skill: how…
How Schools Can Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive) With A.I. This Fall
Last November, when ChatGPT was released, many schools felt like they’d been hit by an asteroid. In the middle of an academic year, with no warning, teachers were forced to…
Can A.I. Detect Wildfires Faster Than Humans? California Is Trying to Find Out.
For years, firefighters in California have relied on a vast network of more than 1,000 mountaintop cameras to detect wildfires. Operators have stared into computer screens around the clock looking…
How Jackson Hole Became an Economic Obsession
Filmmakers have Cannes. Billionaires have Davos. Economists? They have Jackson Hole. The world’s most exclusive economic get-together takes place this week in the valley at the base of the Teton…
Russia Extends Pretrial Detention of Evan Gershkovich
The pretrial detention of Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who has been held in Russia since March, has been extended by three months, a Moscow…
Jonesing on Carbon | naked capitalism
Yves here. It may not be obvious to readers, but even by the standards of rich person largesse, a Boeing 747 as a private jet is really vile. Note that…
The BRICS Group Announces New Members, Expanding Its Reach
The five-nation BRICS club of emerging economies that came together to tilt the international order away from the West announced plans Thursday to expand its membership, feeding concerns about a…