Algorithms dominate our lives because commerce dominates our lives. Competitive companies have a strong economic incentive to ...

The censorship war has hit a flashpoint. Late last month, Brazil banned Elon Musk’s social media site, X, after Musk refused a government order to suppress seven dissident accounts. Brazilian Supreme ...

One of the most surprising suggestions in the economic plan that the Trump campaign rolled out last week was that the United States should start a sovereign wealth fund. Members of President Biden’s ...

Recent U.S. antitrust actions against the newly ascendant tech company only serve Beijing’s geopolitical goals.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program has undercut the nation’s domestic workforce. Mass immigration has caused a backlash ...

For physicists, energy is about the laws of nature; for engineers, it’s about manufacturing prowess. For citizens, however, energy is generally about money. Energy purchases are unavoidable—whether ...

With Beijing menacing Taiwan and its world-leading semiconductor manufacturing sector, American policymakers have converged on the view that the U.S. needs to make more of the chips that run its ...

Artificial intelligence will rapidly alter the global balance of power in the next decade. To retain technological leadership in AI, the U.S. must inhibit the progress of its geopolitical opponents.

In their first decade, Internet services, from Google to Facebook to X, insisted that they were humble platforms designed to serve users. The users, not the platforms, would choose what to post or ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

On 7th Street in northwest Washington, D.C., within sight of a children’s playground, stands a vending machine sponsored by a group called “HIPS” and the city’s health department. The vending machine ...