These cities are blanketed with wildfire smoke. Here’s what to know about bad air quality.

In a world where we push people crossing seas in small boats back into dangerous open water and build ever higher walls to keep out people who seek a better life, the commodification of citizenship and residency and the selling of golden visas to the richest raises serious moral concerns. The Golden Visas indicator of…

Oil prices rose and U.S. stock-index futures slipped on Sunday, after the U.S. and Iran continued their tit-for-tat attacks around the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.

Using 380 trillion tokens of realized AI consumption across more than four hundred large language models from the licensed proprietary OpenRouter dataset covering approximately 2 percent of current global monthly AI token consumption, we analyze how AI affects firms, markets, and workers. Leveraging the unprecedented size, scope and granularity of this data, we construct the…

This is part of our educational blog series, “The Short Form,” to simplify taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. issues and explore the world through the lens of tax policy. Learn more…

At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts in public sector digital resilience discussed how governments can boost cybersecurity at scale, develop more robust systems, and adapt and recover when things go wrong The transformation from analogue to digital has seen huge benefits for governments and society, but it also presents challenges – not least the…