China’s biotech industry is only barely trailing — and in some areas, is already surpassing — America’s. China now initiates roughly the same number of clinical trials for novel drugs as the United States. Chinese biotechs are far outpacing their American competitors in the stock market. Hong Kong’s biotech index climbed about 80% last year, […]

Companies will not win by turning AI into a fear test. They will win by creating workplaces where human judgment gets more valuable as machine output gets cheaper. 

America’s affordability crisis is not evenly distributed.

Even as the U.S. and Iran inch toward a deal to end the nearly three-months long conflict, tensions are running high. On Monday, the U.S. launched strikes in southern Iran that it described as "defensive," and Iran claimed to have brought down an American drone. President Trump demanded the Islamic Republic immediate turn over its...

Peace deal negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran are on shaky ground Tuesday after the Islamic Republic‘s supreme leader warned U.S. bases in the Middle East are no longer safe. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei delivered this warning in a message to mark the beginning of Hajj — an annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca — a...

Wonks and activists of the conservative-libertarian fusionist flavor are cautiously optimistic that their politics will come back in style in a post-Trump political landscape — and that they can beat back the big-government “conservatives” that have risen in the Trump era. “Ideas and political philosophies are actually a lot more like fashion than we might...

Medicaid fraud has been rampant for decades, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, but a proposed Republican reform of Medicaid block grants could help limit the fraud and ensure that taxpayer dollars are used more efficiently.

There were a number of setbacks that blunted would-be Democratic momentum, further reminding that they have a long way to go.

In today's issue: ▪ Texas votes in key runoffs ▪ Trump defends Iran deal ▪ Clock ticking for GOP ▪ Pope Leo weighs in on AI Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) will attempt today to do what most Republicans this year have been unable to: win a primary in the face of President Trump’s opposition....

The Trump administration is protecting the powerful, and leaving everyone else to fend for themselves.