Shane is joined by Milton Mueller and Adam Thierer to discuss AI regulation, the innovation-vs-safety tradeoff, and whether global AI governance is even possible.

A possible corollary to the truism “mo money mo problems” might be “more innovation, more problems.” Technological solutions to existing problems typically create new problems. Fossil fuels are a ...

In The Sun Also Rises, when one of Hemmingway’s characters was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “first gradually and then suddenly”. As 30-year US bond yields climb to their highest level since ...

Released last month, Google’s AI and Economy ATLAS sorts 14.6 million Gemini conversations into jobs and associated tasks. The headline is reassuring: AI is assisting people, not replacing them. Its ...

America is in a baby bust, with birth rates hitting record lows and still falling. Young Americans are getting married later and less. Meanwhile, parents face rising stress, and children suffer an ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, universities with large endowments face a higher tax on their investment income. The new law applies to private non-profit institutions of higher education that ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

In 2026, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent estimates, US farmers and ranchers will receive about $55 billion in federal subsidies. A substantial share of these outlays ...