• New

  The Wrong Kind of City?

  Dietrich Vollrath

  How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According to the father of modern sociology, quite a lot.

• New

  The Misery Bomb

  Matt Reynolds

  Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the trend, it might have an outsized impact on their future.

• Developmental Editing

  The Editors
• forecast

  How Long Til We’re All on Ozempic?

  Greg Justice

  Over 100 million Americans, and possibly many more, could benefit from GLP-1 drugs. When can they expect to get them?

• Why We Shut Down

  Sarah Eustis-Guthrie Ben Williamson

  In international development, it’s not enough to try to do good. We need the tools to tell if a project is really working — and the incentive to end it if it’s not.

• Can You Trust An AI Press Release?

  Lawrence Chan

  Of course not. Here’s how leading AI labs mislead consumers, journalists, and each other.

• Artificial Wombs When?

  Sarah Constantin

  What to expect when you’re expecting in 2050.

• fiction

  Sins of the Children

  Adrian Tchaikovsky

  The circle of life on Chelicer 14d.

Coming Soon

• interview

  Development Finance Done Right

  Andrew Herscowitz

• The Next Revolution in Animal Agriculture

  Constance Li

• Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses

  Karthik Tadepalli

• Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There

  Georgia Ray

• Culture Studies

  Henrik Karlsson