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As Trump tries to negotiate Ukraine peace deal, European leaders sound alarm that Russia could target their countries next Quick Summary European officials are increasingly warning their citizens to prepare for potential conflict with Russia, a psychological shift for the continent. NATO’s European members plan to increase traditional defense spending to 3.5% of their economies by 2035, up from 2% currently. Russia is suspected of conducting a covert “gray zone” assault on Europe, to try to damage its economy and sow confusion.

Predictions of the duties’ impact on the economy were buoyant or dire. Here’s the reality.

In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.

The U.S. president’s pardon schemes encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.

The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins. Dispicably related

Explore Will Guidara’s approach to a hospitality mindset that engenders customer loyalty in this week's Big Think Class.

Download report Executive summary Visionary thinking about how to build a more stable and secure world flourished in the aftermath of the Cold War, but has largely stalled over the last dozen years in the United States. The shock of 9/11, Russia’s revanchism, China’s rise, and a deteriorating international security environment have made long-term thinking seem like a luxury. Populism in the United States and other countries adds further to the challenge. Yet this paper argues that today’s transnational dangers are too great to let strategic imagination be crowded out by traditional great-power rivalries. It also contends that some of the immediate causes of those rivalries are, in principle, addressable, if policymakers engage them creatively and energetically.

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found.

Grade inflation and the rise of AI are making it impossible for employers to evaluate recent graduates.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell. Excerpt : "However if ideas remain as discoverable as ever, but their economic impact is fading, then we need to look downstream from the laboratory. The decline in allocative efficiency should be more of a main focus — we need to throw more of our intellectual capital at understanding how to increase competitiveness and the market potential for innovative firms and technologies, in the same way that we've focused on understanding how to make better technologies. The narrative that "ideas are getting harder to find" has profoundly shaped how economists and policymakers think about innovation and growth. It implies we're fighting against some fundamental law of diminishing returns in human creativity. But what we’re actually fighting against is a flaw in our markets that prevents that creativity from being rewarded economically. If we want to restore growth, we should stop worrying about whether we've picked all the low-hanging fruit and start taking that fruit to market."

The union movement’s problem isn’t that workers don’t want to fight; it’s that they don’t want to lose.