My girlfriend is 62. Can she claim her late husband’s full Social Security benefit — or does she have to wait?

The new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opened on July 4 in Medora, North Dakota. The location may seem surprising because Roosevelt was a New Yorker: he was born in Manhattan, buried in Oyster Bay, has a memorial along Central Park, and spent most of his adult life at Sagamore Hill on Long Island. A presidential…

One way of examining how mental health has changed over time is to use information available in large national surveys. While these survey-based measures are valuable in principle, and have been widely employed in prior research, a number of challenges may limit their practical usefulness or require considerable care in their application. This study uses…

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Artificial Intelligence Could Improve Critical Infrastructure Services, But It Comes with Risks Artificial intelligence could be used to improve services and utilities we use every day—such as electricity, water, transportation, banking, and more. But AI could also make these systems more vulnerable to cyber threats. In a new report, we looked…

Affordable, secure, and clean energy is a central goal for policymakers worldwide. Against this backdrop, the Council on Economic Policies convened a series of country roundtables in Paris, London, Washington, D.C., New Delhi, and Berlin, followed by a global convening in Zurich to explore policy packages – combining fiscal, regulatory and market design measures –…

Letter Connor Axiotes is right to draw attention to the seriousness of frontier AI and its potential impact on the risk of cyber attacks (‘Humanity is no longer in control of its most awesome creation since the atom bomb’). But his assertion about the Bank of England’s cyber defences being unsophisticated is totally wrong, unfounded…