数据中心与中期选举

Every three years the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. Anyone who cares about the young of today should be alarmed at thi

The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show

For the first time in half a century, astronauts are going back to the Moon. Well, almost back there. For NASA’s Artemis II mission will not land. Discover how it could pave the way for the space agency’s future plans

The Economist has partnered with a research and AI firm to measure corporate culture across 900 companies in 19 industries. Does yours feature?

Asians are sensitive to energy prices and are willing to take to the streets over them. What has begun as an energy shock could become a political one:

At -20, Donald Trump’s net approval rating is lower than it has been at any point in his second term. The Iran war is probably responsible. View our interactive poll tracker here:

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling si

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023. That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 1

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and m

NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the rig

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: The gender gap continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall populatio

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour