Benjamin Giltner Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has Europeans fearful for their own safety and security. To make matters more worrisome, the United States can no longer serve as the continent’s security guarantor. With its fiscal constraints, heightened domestic issues, and a rising China, Europe has dropped down in the pecking order of America’s priorities. Yet, the good news is that ...
Jeffrey A. Singer At the beginning of this month, the Food and Drug Administration approved a second generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone. The agency first approved the drug in 2000 and a generic version in 2019. The drug, used to terminate pregnancies up to the tenth week of gestation, has proven to be safe and effective. Regardless of ...
Jeffrey Miron To moderate economic downturns, [g]overnments frequently issue stimulus payments .… Economic theory suggests [such]… payments should be timely, targeted, and temporary, but elected officials usually decide whether to adopt or repeal these programs. This means that political considerations likely play a role in the design and implementation of fiscal stimulus. New research on Italy’s 80 Euro Bonus, which originally ...
Jeffrey A. Singer AI IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: CURRENT AND EMERGING ROLES Many patients have already received care influenced by artificial intelligence (AI), whether through a radiologist’s diagnostic support or an automated follow-up message from an electronic health record. As AI moves from the lab to the exam room, the question is no longer if it will transform medicine, but how—and who will determine ...
Jai Kedia and Jerome Famularo On October 16, the Fed, FDIC, and OCC rescinded interagency principles for climate-related financial risk management for large financial institutions. This is a positive development and a rare occasion when regulators narrow their scope. There were many problems with the principles, as was pointed out by Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman. Most importantly, the ...
Travis Fisher and Jennifer Huddleston Artificial intelligence doesn’t run on optimism or buzzwords. It runs on electricity. This seems to be a growing concern as the technology advances, with outlets from Teen Vogue and Wired to the Washington Post and Harvard Business Review publishing articles about AI’s alarming energy and water consumption. The previous AI doomerism now seems to be ...
Jeffrey A. Singer and Jennifer Huddleston Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming every corner of society, including health care. Hospitals and clinics are integrating AI into their electronic health record (EHR) systems to organize data, flag potential drug interactions, and assist in diagnosis and treatment decisions. ...
Marcos Falcone On October 15, after five years of negotiations in Congress, Uruguay became the first Latin American country to legalize euthanasia, i.e., the practice of taking medical action to end life at the request of a patient. As with all such laws throughout the world, the measure is intended as a way to eliminate suffering among terminally ill patients. ...
Colleen Hroncich Teacher Jenna Hill loved Montessori education, but she wanted to incorporate other approaches as she worked with students. When the pandemic hit, she and a fellow teacher, Maria Casco, took the opportunity to create a new learning community, CASCO Learning, in St. Louis. “We took the best of Montessori because we are very rooted and have been in ...
Jeffrey Miron Since September 2025, the US has carried out five lethal strikes on small boats off the coast of Venezuela, leaving 27 people dead as of October 14. Even granting the government’s account—that these were traffickers and the strikes were effective interdictions—the policy question remains: does escalating force in prohibited markets reduce violence? In short: no. When prohibition forces a ...