Magazines of record for industry, technology, and national strategy.
Defense News
Staff
MSI discusses its EAGLS air defense platform, development of EAGLS X and new approaches to modular, cost-effective counter-drone capabilities.
IEEE Spectrum
Kaitlyn Ridel
Engineering teams are moving at breakneck speed to integrate artificial intelligence, but they are running into a formidable new barrier: compliance issues. Translating high-level AI ethics , governance , and auditing into daily operational workflows has become one of the indust…
Defense News
Zita Ballinger Fletcher
The Air Force's new Force Design 2026 outlines a shift toward artificial intelligence, autonomy and integrated sensors to counter emerging threats.
Defense News
Angela Caguimbal
New drone innovations are highlighted in Part 2 of our Business of Defense series. Plus, a sneak peek into a new Smithsonian military aviation exhibit, and tips to avoid scams.
Defense News
Stephanie van den Berg, Reuters
The International Criminal Court will close investigations into Afghanistan that previously looked at alleged crimes by U.S. troops and focus only on actions of the Taliban.
Defense News
Eve Sampson
Lt. Col. Brandon Carroll Tyner has been identified as the U.S. soldier arrested earlier this week in the UK for reportedly assisting Russian intelligence.
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. Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why did it get the midterms so wrong? —Aaron Zamost, a tech communications consultan…
Compact
Nathan Pinkoski
The publishing industry is experiencing a surge in memoirs, and the Boomers are to blame.
IEEE Spectrum
Marmon Utility (Hendrix®)
This White Paper explains how ice, wind and vegetation load overhead distribution lines at the same time. It shows engineers how to assess the complete line and compare resilience options. What you will learn about: How freezing rain, rime ice and wet snow add weight to conducto…
MIT Technology Review
Jessica Hamzelou
Scientists have been working on ways to decode brain activity for decades. Teams have developed brain implants that can be used to control robotic limbs and computers, and even to “speak.” The people who volunteer for trials of those devices play a vital role in that research, a…
MIT Technology Review
Aaron Zamost
The self-styled visionaries of Silicon Valley, leaders like OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, have built careers claiming to see the future. Long-term vision is currency: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg built a 10-year road map for Facebook in 2016, and Google…
Foreign Affairs
Charles Kupchan
In just a few days’ time, U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be holding a three-way summit on the sidelines of next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Shenzhen, China. According to The Wall Street J…
Foreign Affairs
Pedro Sánchez
How to avert a new world war.
Foreign Affairs
Pedro Sánchez
Cómo evitar otra guerra mundial.
Defense News
Ellen Ioanes
The measures call for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. and Israel on weapons technology development.
MIT Technology Review
James O'Donnell
Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while an industry group cl…
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. What to know about this year’s UN climate talks Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists have gathered in Antalya, Turk…
Compact
Geoff Shullenberger
In the wake of the midterm elections, memes and jokes abounded about Silicon Valley grandees dying their hair blue and adding pronouns back to their email signature lines to signal a strategic rapprochement with the victorious Democratic Party.
Foreign Affairs
Andrew Natsios
The strategic logic of foreign aid.
Foreign Affairs
Gordon Liao, Eswar Prasad, Tony Zhang
How Technology Is—and Isn’t—Changing the Global Economy
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. Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable conti…
IEEE Spectrum
Innomotics
This article is brought to you by Innomotics . In the annals of industrial history, few innovations have demonstrated such remarkable staying power as the dynamo-electric principle. Discovered by Werner von Siemens in 1866, this groundbreaking principle remains fundamental to mo…
Foreign Affairs
Tal Feldman
How AI is reshaping influence operations in America.
IEEE Spectrum
Amanda Davis
Bishnu Saroop Atal Acoustics and signal processing pioneer Life Fellow, 93; died 19 August Atal was an acoustics and signal processing researcher at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., and later at AT&T ’s Shannon Laboratory, in Florham Park, N.J. His pioneering work on voice-coding…
Compact
Ashley Frawley
More than a decade ago, I noticed that the walls at the university where I taught were plastered with posters designed to raise “awareness” about mental health.
IEEE Spectrum
Keysight
Learn how guided virtual shock and drop analysis helps engineering teams identify reliability risks before physical testing, reduce qualification iterations, optimize packaging designs, and accelerate electronics product development. What you will learn about: Why shock failures…
IEEE Spectrum
Vishal Sharma
This article is brought to you by Queen’s University Belfast . Several teams around the globe are leveraging AI by creating a task force of agents managed by an orchestrator and creating applications to support risk assessment, client profiling, match making, and information yie…
Compact
Alicia Nieves
Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025 with a second chance to remake American politics.
Compact
Darel E. Paul
It has been nearly twenty years since the United States last experienced a wave election.
Compact
John B. Judis
In our 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority , Ruy Teixeira and I argued that if Democrats continued to gain middle-class professionals and the growing minority vote, while maintaining sufficient support—we estimated 40 percent—among the white working class, t…
The New Atlantis
Yuval Levin
Sometimes, a curious amateur’s eye can discern tensions in the work of professionals that the intensity of their focused labor keeps them from seeing clearly themselves. Such amateurs point to questions more than answers, but innocent questions sometimes clear a path toward answ…
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…
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.