Now is the time to pilot a knowledge commons that allows communities to share data and policy advocacy information.

By using a few public policy levers, the federal government can help increase public data use in targeted ways.

Lessons resonate more with students when they can see that what they are learning in class has real, tangible meaning.

In “A New Science Diplomacy in Latin America Embeds Knowledge in Public Institutions” (Issues, Spring 2026), Gabriela Gomes Coelho Ferreira and Claudia Alarcón López offer an intriguing reframing of ...

A lack of standardized infrastructure data is holding back efforts to modernize the nation’s electrical grid. Maintaining the electrical grid is one of the central challenges of our time. The ...

Nigeria’s young and booming capital of Abuja, a place where I spent part of my formative years, is best described as a city of competitive hustling. Opportunities are available, but competition is ...

If she didn’t focus on the building plans, Tamara would think about her mother. She would think she was fine, zooming in on a misspelled text one of her contractors sent, then she’d remember her ...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are easy to underestimate. They make up a fraction—just 3.65%—of the total federal research and ...

As Lars Erik Schönander makes clear in “Reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research Program Isn’t Enough” (Issues, Spring 2026), SBIR is massively improved. But it still fails to adequately ...

The internet—saturated with advertising, tracking, and surveillance; optimized for engagement and attentional capture at any cost; and riddled with spam—was made, not born. With an astute and accurate ...

Communities are increasingly unsatisfied with blanket promises of jobs and economic growth when considering the siting of data centers nearby. Unlike the factories of past industrial eras, data ...