• IMMIGRATIONWhat a Trump Presidency Means for Millions of Migrants and Their Families in the U.S.

    By Nando Sigona

    In the US election, a tough-on-immigration stance from president-elect Donald Trump, including promises of mass deportations, appears to have resonated with voters. History shows that these policies may have initial public support, but raise other issues when executed.

  • DISASTERSAmid Hurricane Milton’s Devastation, a Sliver of Good News

    By Anna Lamb

    Earlier this month Hurricane Milton caused an estimated $50 billion in damage and claimed the lives of at least 14 people, yet didn’t deliver the scale of destruction some had feared. Cellphone data suggest evacuation mandates, warning systems worked.

  • CLIMATE CHALLENGESClimate-Fueled Extreme Weather Is Hiking Up Car Insurance Rates

    By Kiley Price

    As climate change accelerates, hurricanes, wildfires and hail storms pound the U.S. with growing vigor—and the insurance market is struggling to foot the bill of the damages they leave behind for customers. Home insurers have raised premiums after extreme weather events. Now car insurers in the U.S. are doing the same thing.

  • DISINFORMATIONExploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to Election

    By Craig Silverman and Priyanjana Bengani

    Eight deceptive advertising networks have placed over 160,000 election and social issues ads across more than 340 Facebook pages in English and Spanish. Some of the people who clicked on ads were unwittingly signed up for monthly credit card charges or lost health coverage, among other consequences.

  • THE RUSSIA CONNECTIONConcerns about Elon Musk, Russia's Putin Not Fading Yet

    By Jeff Seldin

    Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has been talking on a consistent basis with Russian President Vladimir Putin are cause of concern. Musk’s companies are doing work for the Pentagon NASA. Some of that work is so sensitive that Musk has been given high-level security clearances due to his knowledge of the programs, raising concerns among some that top secret U.S. information and capabilities could be at risk.

  • SUPPLY-CHAIN SECURITYThwarting Threats in the Supply Chain

    By Linh Truong

    Exploding pagers, a bridge in Baltimore collapsed by a cargo ship, and hacks on a water system in rural Texas. All spotlight vulnerabilities in our complex, global supply chain.

  • CHINA WATCHU.S. Finalizes Rule Restricting Investment in Chinese Tech Firms

    By Rob Garver

    The Treasury Department on Monday finalized a new rule meant to prevent U.S.-based people and companies from investing in the development of a range of advanced technologies in China, thereby preventing Beijing from accessing cutting-edge expertise and equipment.

  • BUSINESS & IMMIGRTIONThe U.S. Business Community Used to Be a Force for Immigration Reform. What Happened?

    By Eli Hager

    For decades, the business lobby helped shape immigration legislation and moderated the immigration debate, working alongside advocates for immigrants. In the Trump era, businesses now see more risk than reward in immigration politics. Many have prioritized what’s still doable: tax cuts and deregulation.

  • CRITICAL MINERALS Major Lithium Mine Approved in Nevada, Supporting a Domestic Supply of Critical Minerals 

    Critical minerals are essential building blocks of the modern economy and America’s energy security, from clean energy technologies – like electric vehicle and grid storage batteries and wind turbines – to semiconductors to advanced defense systems and consumer electronics.

  • IMMIGRATION & THE ECONOMYProof That Immigrants Fuel the U.S. Economy Is Found in the Billions They Send Back Home

    By Ernesto Castañeda

    Studies indicate that remittances — or money immigrants send back home — constitute 17.5% of immigrants’ income. Given that, we estimate that the immigrants who remitted in 2022 had take-home wages of over $466 billion. Assuming their take-home wages are around 21% of the economic value of what they produce for the businesses they work for – like workers in similar entry-level jobs in restaurants and construction – then immigrants added a total of $2.2 trillion to the U.S. economy yearly. That is about 8% of the U.S. GDP.

  • TRUTH DECAYTo Make Children Better Fact-Checkers, Expose Them to More Misinformation — with Oversight

    By Jason Pohl

    “We need to give children experience flexing these skepticism muscles and using these critical thinking skills within this online context,” a psychology researcher said.

  • CYBERSECURITYSalt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for The "Good Guys"

    By Joe Mullin and Cindy Cohn

    If U.S. policymakers care about China and other foreign countries engaging in espionage on U.S. citizens, it’s time to speak up in favor of encryption by default. If these policymakers don’t want to see bad actors take advantage of their constituents, domestic companies, or security agencies, again—they should speak up for encryption by default.

  • EXTREMISMOhio Is Home to About 50 White Extremist Groups, but the State’s Social and Political Landscape Is Undergoing Rapid Racial Change

    By Paul J. Becker and Art Jipson

    Rapidly changing social conditions in Ohio have played a significant role in the growth of extremism. Between 1990 and 2019, manufacturing jobs shrank from 21.7% of all employment in the state to 12.5%, mostly affecting white men. For many of these alienated men, extremist ideologies offer easy answers to complex questions that involve their sense of disenfranchisement.

  • IMMIGRATION & JOBSImmigration Isn’t Causing Unemployment

    By David J. Bier

    Immigrants are not taking jobs away from Americans or causing the unemployment rate to rise. A decline in immigration would be a bad sign for the labor market. Immigrants come when job opportunities exist. As the labor market has cooled, fewer immigrants have been crossing the border illegally since the start of the year.

  • HOMELAND THREATAS2025 Homeland Threat Assessment

    DHS has issued its 2025 threat assessment, focusing on the most direct, pressing threats to the U.S. homeland during the next year. The assessment is organized around DHS missions that most closely align or apply to these threats—public safety, border and immigration, critical infrastructure, and economic security.