If an intervention produces tens of millions of dollars in demonstrable public savings, is the capital that enables it “philanthropy”? The SAFE Alliance’s approximately $28 million annual operating ...

John Arnold’s philanthropy focuses on criminal justice, health, and other societal initiatives.

The interlinked crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are slipping down political agendas just as geopolitical ...

With the second Trump administration has come a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign economic policy. Washington is imposing tariffs on partners and rivals alike, slashing foreign aid, aggressively ...

Senior Trump administration officials are forecasting a boom for the U.S. economy in 2026, driven by Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and historically large tax refunds. "This quarter — the first ...

Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Yet the public discussion of climate change is still remarkably ...

Many forecasters and investors misinterpret what is happening in the American economy. Some believe the uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s trade and other economic policies is abating, while ...

For decades, the U.S. operated under a fatal delusion that free trade with China would liberalize its politics and that the global market was a neutral playing field. We were profoundly wrong. In 2000 ...

Americans’ confidence in the economy slipped in November to negative 30, according to the latest Gallup poll, the lowest level recorded since July 2024. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index — which ...

Economic cycles feature expansion, peak, contraction, and trough stages. Investors adjust strategies based on the current economic phase. Government tools like interest rates help manage these cycles.