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Can We Trust Social Science Yet?
Everyone likes the idea of evidence-based policy, but it’s hard to realize it when our most reputable social science journals are still publishing poor…
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Forecast Series: The Mortality Impacts of USAID Cuts
A special series of five forecasts on the Trump Administration's cuts to some of USAID's most effective programs.
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Forecast: The Impact of USAID Malaria Cuts
by Bruce Tsai
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Forecast: The Impact of USAID Nutrition Cuts
by Anna Gordon & Lauren Gilbert
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Forecast: The Impact of USAID WASH Cuts
by Erin Braid
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Forecast: The Impact of USAID Tuberculosis Cuts
by Kati Conen
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Forecast: The Impact of USAID HIV/AIDS Cuts
by Jared Leibowich
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Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice
America’s roads are more dangerous than those of almost every country in the developed world. We know how to change that.
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Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit?
A conversation between Ajeya Cotra & Arvind Narayanan about the factors that might slow down the pace of AI development, what could happen next, and…
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Arvind Narayanan

April 2025

Reports of the Death of California High-Speed Rail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real…
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Does Abundance Start at Home?
Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.
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Where Babies Come From
It's more complicated than you may think.
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