Magazines of record for industry, technology, and national strategy.
Defense News
Riley Ceder
The four-star officers who lead U.S. military commands have all requested the support of amphibious ready groups and Marine Expeditionary Units.
Defense News
Tanya Noury
The 60-day threshold is delineated in the War Powers Resolution of 1973. The most relevant part of that law makes no mention of a ceasefire.
Defense News
Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters
The comment came one day after Trump announced that Washington was looking at reducing the number of U.S. military personnel in Germany.
Defense News
Hope Hodge Seck
The service is “aggressively pursuing” an operational demo in 2027 for the Aerial Logistics Connector.
Defense News
Eve Sampson
Romania will now be able to acquire counter-unmanned aerial system technology through the U.S.’s counter-drone marketplace, the Army said on Wednesday.
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body. This subscriber-only eBook explores R3 Bio, a small startup that has pitched a startling and ethically charged vision for “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies. by Antonio Regalado March 20,…
Defense News
Michael Scanlon
In a first, the Air Force is asking Congress to fund the purchase of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, marking the beginning of the “loyal wingman" era.
MIT Technology Review
Will Douglas Heaven
The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained…
Compact
Jacob Eisler
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court narrowed the conditions under which states must draw districts with a majority of minority voters.
IEEE Spectrum
Justin Cappos
Transforming a newly discovered software vulnerability into a cyberattack used to take months. Today—as the recent headlines over Anthropic’s Project Glasswing have shown —generative AI can do the job in minutes, often for less than a dollar of cloud computing time. But while la…
IEEE Spectrum
Sujeet Dutta
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tas…
MIT Technology Review
Thomas Macaulay
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past In the past, getting to the North Pole involved a treacherous trip through ice many…
Compact
Susan Pickard
“I was insisting that my fantasies were true—that fantasy, in fact, could be a reality in itself.”
IEEE Spectrum
COMSOL
Laboratory or in-field measurements are often considered the gold standard for certain aspects of power system design; however, measurement approaches always have limitations. Simulation can help overcome some of these limitations, including speeding up the design process, reduc…
Foreign Affairs
Rabah Arezki, Frederick van der Ploeg, Michael L. Ross
Critical minerals will scramble geopolitics.
Foreign Affairs
Peter Reuter, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Keith Humphreys
China might have—but wouldn’t want Washington to know.
MIT Technology Review
Thomas Macaulay
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste Today, nuclear energy enjoys rare support across the political spectrum. Public approv…
Compact
Leila Mechoui
Most parents are familiar with the guilty feeling that goes along with handing their children a digital device.
MIT Technology Review
Casey Crownhart
Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment of support across the political spectrum in the US. Interest from tech companies that are scrambling to meet demand for massive data centers has sparked a resurgence of money and attention in the industry. That newfound interest is exac…
Foreign Affairs
Danny Citrinowicz
The unintended consequences of the U.S.-Israeli assault.
Foreign Affairs
Liana Fix, Michael Kimmage
How Trump misread Europe.
Foreign Affairs
Eyck Freymann
America Is preparing for the wrong kind of crisis
IEEE Spectrum
Olivia Hsu
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a st…
IEEE Spectrum
Willie D. Jones
Many of the world’s most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers , wireless base stations , medical imaging scanners , and some artificial intelligence tools —depend on field-programmable gate arrays . Computer chips with internal hardware circuits, the FPGAs can…
IEEE Spectrum
Danica Radovanović
It started with word, cave, and storytelling, A line scratched on stone walls: “Meet me when the young moon rises.” The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts, Medieval texts hidden from flame. What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II ? Was it God who la…
MIT Technology Review
Thomas Macaulay
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to trial this week in a…
Compact
Stephen G. Adubato
The American dream, according to Slavoj Žižek, amounts to “dematerialization” of real life as it becomes a “spectral show.”
Foreign Affairs
Christopher Hartwell, Tricia D. Olsen
Why wealthy elites come to regret their bargains with authoritarians.
Compact
Felice Basbøll
On April 9, a doctor in Hawaii was found guilty of trying to kill his wife while out on a seemingly romantic mountain hike.
Compact
Alex Hogan
In 1912, dozens of Harvard students skipped their exams in order to help break up one of the biggest labor confrontations of the early twentieth century: the International Workers of the World (IWW)-led textile workers’ strike.
The New Atlantis
Brendan Foht
She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jeans and a collared shirt with a sweater, a preppy and youthful fashion statement consistent with her budding career as an archi…
The New Atlantis
Brendan Foht
“I am departing totally convinced,” the great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote to a professional acquaintance in March of 1890, “that my trip will yield a valuable contribution neither to literature nor to science.” Chekhov prepared to leave for Sakhalin Island, a distant…
The New Atlantis
Brendan Foht
Her oncologist sent her in to the emergency room. The diagnosis was metastatic gallbladder cancer aggressively invading her liver, resulting in liver failure. I went down to the emergency room to see her. She only spoke Bengali, so every conversation required a phone interpreter…
The New Atlantis
Brendan Foht
In war, those with their lives yet to be lived are also those most urgently needed to fight. It is one of the tragic ironies of conflict. In the U.S. Civil War, the average soldier was 26 and approximately 620,000 soldiers died. In World War I, over 2 million German soldiers die…
The New Atlantis
Brendan Foht
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, hospital administrators behaved as cautiously as possible to avoid transmission and dissemination of the virus. They strictly limited or eliminated hospital visitors. This was one of the most devastating policies enacted by healthcare i…
The New Atlantis
Samuel Matlack
The effervescent rays of sunshine spread their warmth across my back as I walk along Omaha Beach in Normandy. French children kick around a soccer ball, shouting and giggling across a fifty-yard stretch of sand. A tranquil ocean extends into the horizon, effortlessly mingling wi…
Magazines of record for industry, technology, and national strategy. 7 sources / 6 live / 1 manual.
Julius Krein
Quarterly print journal for long essays on industrial policy, national strategy, and the political economy of American production.
Compact
A post-liberal magazine covering political economy, labor, manufacturing, and the reorganization of the American order.
Defense News
Trade publication covering Pentagon procurement, defense primes, and the global defense industrial base.
Council on Foreign Relations
The establishment journal of record for American geopolitics — essential for industrial strategy, trade, and national power.
IEEE
The flagship engineering magazine — semiconductors, power systems, robotics, and the working hardware of the American industrial base.
MIT Technology Review
Technology reporting on semiconductors, energy, biotech, and the research behind the next generation of American industry.
Ari Schulman
A journal of technology and society — the philosophical and civilizational questions raised by rebuilding American industrial power.