Magazines of record for industry, technology, and national strategy.
Defense News
Daniel Terrill
The Pentagon recently announced a $450 million investment in The Elmet Group to strengthen the U.S. supply chain for the critical mineral tungsten.
Defense News
Claire Barrett, J.D. Simkins
Boeing has officially been selected to build the Navy’s sixth-generation carrier-based strike fighter, dubbed F/A-XX.
Defense News
Michael Scanlon
The Defense Department has awarded Raytheon a multiyear contract worth up to $20.7 billion to build Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles, or AMRAAMs.
Defense News
Claire Barrett
A decommissioned U.S. guided-missile frigate was sent to the bottom of the Atlantic on Sept. 25 during a joint U.S.-U.K. naval exercise.
Defense News
Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters
U.S. forces are set to depart from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a move celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies.
IEEE Spectrum
Brandon Keim
Seventeen years ago, cell biologist Donald Ingber and his colleagues at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering submitted a paper to the journal Science describing their model human lung. It was smaller than a USB stick and made of a clear polym…
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. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being u…
Compact
Fred Block
The surprising electoral success of avowedly socialist candidates in big-city mayoral campaigns and some congressional races has raised the profile of the Democratic Socialists of America, forcing people to ponder what the term “democratic socialism” actually means.
MIT Technology Review
Cheri Williams
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes. As AI moves fr…
IEEE Spectrum
ChipAgents
Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four critical technologies enabling silicon design autonomy Understand how autonomou…
Foreign Affairs
Ali Vaez
Why America and Iran fight on without victory.
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by M…
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support greater independence. In this Robots Gui…
IEEE Spectrum
Danielle Cann
IEEE TryEngineering is dedicated to inspiring intellectual curiosity in children. The technologies shaping our world, including in the realms of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ocean exploration, are evolving rapidly. Helping young learners understand the concept…
MIT Technology Review
James O'Donnell
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture a…
Defense News
Rudy Ruitenberg
Drones, counter-drone tech, air defense, seabed defense and eastern flank protection top the EU's list of desired capability areas.
MIT Technology Review
Niall Firth
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. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the worl…
Compact
Michael C. Behrent
We live in an age of inversions. With class inversion, college-educated professionals have moved inexorably leftwards, while once left-leaning blue-collar workers have veered to the right.
MIT Technology Review
Michelle Kim
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, Ope…
Foreign Affairs
Dan Driscoll
America and its allies must scale together for a new era of war.
IEEE Spectrum
Ralph Earle
My job is to translate dry and unrelenting code into a user interface of surpassing beauty. With my mouse, I roll one pixel after another up the vast anthill of the internet. My dream is to translate the visions of the holy ones into a communication protocol of universal wonderm…
Compact
Kevin Yuill
One sunny day in June, I opened up my university email, which I only do occasionally now that I am retired, to see an email marked “confidential” in my inbox.
IEEE Spectrum
David Schneider
I’ve seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I’ve become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn’t involve the sun or the moon—something called an asteroid occultation. That’s w…
Compact
Peter Hitchens
The future world statesman, in full military uniform, leaps athletically on to the table. Then he reaches up into the ceiling lamp of his hotel room and pulls out a concealed microphone.
Foreign Affairs
Iris Ferguson
The Greenland deal proves self-reliance is not an option.
Foreign Affairs
Andrew McAfee
The real barriers to competitiveness and innovation are still in place.
Foreign Affairs
Sam Heller
How shock therapy threatens the post-Assad peace.
Foreign Affairs
Christopher David LaRoche, Ankit Panda
In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has called artificial intelligence “far more dangerous than nukes.” Anthropic C…
Compact
Conor McGlynn
The resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warns that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade,” has prompted a new wave of attention to existential risk from AI.
Compact
John B. Judis
In the wake of Kamala Harris’s defeat in 2024, one heard often that Democrats needed to focus on class rather than identity. But what exactly does it mean to focus on class?
The New Atlantis
Emma Waters, Ari Schulman
Ari Schulman: Emma, you are a policy leader on the subject of restorative reproductive medicine, which, as I understand it, argues that something has gone wrong with conventional fertility treatments, especially in the prominence of IVF. It also has a different prescription, an…
The New Atlantis
Ian Banks, Ari Schulman
Ari Schulman: Ian, you’re part of what we might loosely call the “science reform community.” Tell us what that means and what your specific focus is in your role at the Foundation for American Innovation. Ian Banks: At FAI, I run the Science and Innovation team, which encompasse…
The New Atlantis
M. Anthony Mills, Ari Schulman
Ari Schulman: Tony, I’ve spent the past year trying to make sense of what the Trump administration’s agenda is for science. It’s a tough job, because you hear two very different stories coming from the admin. One story is about restoring gold-standard science, restoring trust in…
The New Atlantis
Daniel Sarewitz, Ari Schulman
Ari Schulman: Dan, I’d like to start with a worry about science funding that goes back before the Trump era. Ten years ago, you wrote in our pages that much new science “is turning out to be contestable, unreliable, unusable, or flat-out wrong. From metastatic cancer to climate…
The New Atlantis
The Future of Life Institute
In March 2026, a coalition of interest groups and individuals, organized by the Future of Life Institute, issued the following declaration at HumanStatement.org. 1. Keeping Humans in Charge Human Control Is Non-Negotiable: Humanity must remain in control. Humans should choose ho…
The New Atlantis
Vladimir Snurenco
SpaceX’s initial public offering of $1.8 trillion in June was the largest ever in history. Yet Mars, Elon Musk’s ambitious destination, is an airless desert whose median temperature of negative 80 degrees Fahrenheit makes it neither particularly warm nor inviting. Mars, Pen…
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.