2026-05-28
The Jones Act, the American law that bans ships manufactured outside the US from traveling between US ports, has been an economic burden on the country for decades. The best study on its impact estimates the cost at 0.1 …
Earlier this month NSF announced its new X-Labs program , a $1.5 billion, decade-long initiative to fund independent, milestone-driven research teams working outside of traditional university and corporate structures. Th…
In other news, arXiv’s CS section chair Thomas Dietterich announced that authors who submit papers with “incontrovertible evidence” of unchecked AI content (e.g. hallucinated references or leftover chat content like “her…
It seems obvious that increased demand for electricity from data centers must raise prices. But electricity prices can move in counter-intuitive ways. We’ve talked before about how electricity price increases largely had…
Pew’s Housing Policy Initiative is making a splash with its new video explaining “address chain” filtering: How new market rate construction frees up housing opportunities across incomes and neighborhoods as occupants of…
“The USPS owns over 8,500 properties and leases over 25,000 more. It also needs money.” In a new Brooking Report , Aaron Shroyer, Ben McAdams, and Glen Nuckolls argue we can kill two birds with one stone: the Postal Serv…
What is it like to know that a new drug exists – and has been proven safe and effective – but that it simply isn’t available where you live, and you might die without it? This was the reality for millions of Africans dur…
By now you’ve probably seen the viral clip of Marblehead resident David Modica asking his fellow townspeople the question heard ‘round the internet. Jerusalem Demsas wrote about it in The Argument , making the case that …