Across the United States and in other technology hubs worldwide, employers increasingly point to artificial intelligence as a driver of recent workforce reductions, a trend that is reshaping local economies, real estate markets and civic…
Global markets entered March 2026 on edge as a sudden wave of Middle East hostilities and supply disruptions pushed crude prices sharply higher while major central banks signalled caution in their policy paths. The collision…
In late January 2026, museums and commercial galleries across the United States staged coordinated closures and public actions in solidarity with a nationwide movement calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to withdraw operations from…
After a season marked by unusually severe flooding across multiple regions, philanthropic foundations, multilateral development banks and government grant programs have accelerated funding for nature-based solutions (NBS) to reduce flood risk and strengthen community resilience.…
Across culture and commerce, a quiet reversal is under way: technologies designed to speed, scale and perfect are being counterbalanced by an insistence on the imperfect, the slow and the hand-made. Practitioners and consumers alike…
The four-day workweek is no longer an experimental fringe idea: over the past five years large-scale pilots and peer-reviewed research have put measurable changes in workers’ time use and health on the table. Employers, researchers…
The emergence of privately financed and operated space telescopes is changing not only who points instruments at the sky but who stores, curates and controls the resulting data. Companies such as Blue Skies Space have…
Between March 13 and March 17, 2026, a powerful mid‑March storm complex swept across the central United States, producing a major blizzard in the Upper Midwest and a broad band of severe weather farther south.…
In January 2026, U.S. regulators and TikTok’s parent company reached a long‑running settlement that moved operational control of TikTok’s U.S. business into a new, U.S.-based joint venture. The transaction, closed in late January, was presented…
Financial firms worldwide are accelerating migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) after a series of technical milestones in quantum computing and new government roadmaps sharpen the timing of practical risk. Senior technology and security teams in…