Flood risks affect homeowners’ costs and home values, but the housing finance system may not sufficiently account for these risks.

Many of the countries with globally significant mineral resources—which the United States and its allies will depend on to diversify the clean energy supply chain—are deeply energy insecure.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his commitment to his policy agenda will challenge U.S. relations with Southeast Asia. This compilation looks to understand how the region views its relationship with the United States and to examine whether the region’s goals and interests can be aligned with those of a new administration.

Informed policy that leads to beneficial change is extremely challenging to develop without being able to measure the material impacts of GenAI.

Key U.S. partners are moving toward less technological integration with China.  But their specific paths diverge significantly based on domestic circumstances and varied relationships with Beijing.

AI presents a challenge for policymakers: a large number of potential risks have not emerged yet, but could emerge quickly. A first step toward navigating this challenge is recognizing that artificial intelligence doesn’t have the sort of stable, well-understood limitations it used to.

Southeast Asia’s developers have sought to democratize AI by building language models that better represent the region’s languages, worldviews, and values. Yet, language is deeply political in a region as multiculturally diverse and complex as Southeast Asia. Can localized large language models truly preserve and project the region’s nuances?

Competition between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi over influence in the Yemeni governorate could lead to conflict between the two sides or their proxies, which risks provoking dangerous fragmentation.

The kingdom aims to foster warmer international relationships by moving away from a religious approach that earned the royal family legitimacy; however it is adopting measures to minimize the potential price paid for this realignment.

For Global South governments to treat the United States as a credible partner in their economic development plans, U.S. policymakers must tackle the macroeconomic and structural constraints that kneecap the overall goals of sustainable development.