THE STANFORD EMERGINGTECHNOLOGY REVIEW 2025

A Preview of the 2025 Report on Ten Key Technologies and Their Policy Implications. In every era, technological discoveries bring both promise and risk. Rarely,however, has the world experienced technological change at the speed andscale we see today. From nanomaterials that are fifty thousand times smallerthan the width of a human hair to commercial satellites …

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Embracing Identity: Broadly shared identity can be the basis for the sense of shared destiny that is at the core of good politics. (Andres Velasco)

What is populism? Economists, unsurprisingly, have defined the phenomenon in exclusively economic terms. The classic definition of populism is “an approach to economics that emphasizes growth and income redistribution and deemphasizes the risks of inflation and deficit finance, external constraints, and the reaction of economic agents to aggressive nonmarket policies” (Dornbusch and Edwards 1991). The …

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A Place for Politics: Politics is Often Messy, but It’s How Society Puts a Value on Things Economists Can’t Measure (Jeffry Frieden)

Even as the United States took its place as the world’s preeminent economic power after World War II, manufacturing firms fled towns in the Northeast and Midwest, leaving behind rusting steel mills and scarred communities. Society as a whole became richer as new industries sprang up elsewhere, but many rust belt communities are still dealing …

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IPSOS GENERATIONS REPORT 2025 (Ben Page)

Preface Welcome to the third edition of the Ipsos Generations Report. The temptation for marketers, analysts and communicators to use broad brushstrokes to describe the characteristics of different generations remains as strong as ever. These shorthands provide powerful stories which attract the attention of media, marketers and policymakers alike. But as soon as you consider …

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World Happiness Report 2025: Executive Summary (ohn Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang.)

In this year’s issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness. Like ‘mercy’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, caring is “twice-blessed” – it blesses those who give and those who receive. In this report, we investigate both of these effects: the benefits to the recipients of caring behaviour and the benefits …

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House Democrat starts ‘abundance movement’-inspired caucus (Filed under  Ezra Klein, Josh Harder)

It comes amid a broader conversation in the party about its post-2024 message and the failures of governance in blue states and cities. Rep. Josh Harder (D-Calif.) arrives for a subcommittee meeting. | Francis Chung/POLITICO By Nicholas Wu and Holly Otterbein 05/08/2025 04:45 AM EDT House Democrats are getting Ezra Klein-pilled. A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by …

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