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GUNSGun Sellers Have Made Millions from Trump’s Deployment of Immigration Agents
Firearms companies – faced with plummeting sales to the general public – found a lucrative new opportunity last year: arming President Donald Trump’s immigration operation. Last year, DHS spent a record sum on guns and ammunition, a Trace analysis found.
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ENERGY SECURITYThe US Doesn’t Need to Generate as Much New Electricity as You Think
Load shifting and improving energy efficiency could reduce the need for new power plants, but utilities often profit more from building than saving power.
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TARRIFSReport: Americans Pay for 96% of Trump's Foreign Tariffs
New research shows Americans are paying almost the entire cost – 96% — of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, directly challenging his repeated assertion that foreign nations absorb the burden.“The claim that foreign countries pay these tariffs is a myth,” said Julian Hinz, research director at the Kiel Institute and one of the authors of the study. “The data show the opposite: Americans are footing the bill.”
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TARRIFSSupreme Court Is Set to Rule on Constitutionality of Trump Tariffs – but Not Their Wisdom
The question of whether a policy is legal or constitutional – which the justices are entertaining now with regard to Trump’s tariffs — isn’t the same as whether it’s wise. And as a trade economist, I worry that Trump’s tariffs also pose a threat to “economic democracy” – that is, the process of decision-making that incorporates the viewpoints of everyone affected by the decision.
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SECURITY GUARDSSecurity Guards at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant Demand Vote to Remove SPFPA Union Officials
The NLRB is the federal agency responsible for enforcing federal labor law, a task that includes administering votes to install (or “certify”) and remove (or “decertify”) unions in workplaces. Security guards at Vogtle have collected enough signatures to prompt the NLR to administer union removal vote.
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NUCLEAR POWERThe Significance of the Vogtle Nuclear Plant
Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia represents a rare successful completion of new reactors in the U.S. in the twenty-first century, showing that nuclear remains technically viable — albeit expensive and slow by modern infrastructure standards. For better or for worse, its experience has become a case study for future nuclear projects and underscores the challenges the industry faces in large-scale construction.
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DISASTERSIn 2025, the US Suffered a Billion-Dollar Disaster Every 10 Days
A new analysis finds that in 2025 major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.
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NATURAL HAZARDSDashboard to Analyzes Natural Hazard Risk to Bank Branches
New interactive dashboard is designed for banks—whether large institutions like JPMorgan Chase or small community banks—to understand how natural disasters such as floods, storms or heatwaves could affect their assets and branch locations.
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SECURITY TECHNOLOGYEntity Resolution: The Security Technology You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
The concept “entity resolution” (ER) is probably unfamiliar, but it underpins much of the world’s security—in telecommunications, banking and national security.
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DISASTERSYou’ve Heard of Climate Change. What Is the Climate Debt Doom Loop?
The low-cost way for municipalities to fund responses and preparedness for the floods, fires and other disasters.
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CRITICAL MINERALSThe Country’s Largest Magnesium Supplier Shut Down. Now What?
The U.S. supply of the critical mineral looks uncertain. The largest producer, US Magnesium, filed for bankruptcy in September. Its half-century-old Rowley smelting plant on the west shore of Utah’s famed lake could shutter for good. US Magnesium’s bankruptcy has consequences for the supply of a critical mineral — and the environment.
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DEPORTATIONS“Construction Can’t Continue": South Texas Builders Say ICE Arrests Have Upended Industry
More than 300 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
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DISASTER RECOVERYWhat Happens When Disaster Recovery Becomes a Luxury Good
As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place —for better or for worse.
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CHINA WATCH“DeepSeek Is in the Driver’s Seat. That’s a Big Security Problem”
Democratic countries have a smart-car problem. For those that don’t act quickly and decisively, it’s about to become a severe national security headache.
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CRITICAL MINERALSA Huge Cache of Critical Minerals Found in Utah May Be the Largest in the U.S.
A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric vehicles, semiconductors, satellites, magnets, and more. The discovery could reshape the clean energy supply chain.
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The long view
CRITICAL MINERALSEven Out of China’s Hands, Mines Still Rely on Its Equipment
The landmark critical minerals agreement between Australia and the United States is vital to both nations’ security and sovereignty. But the agreement signed carries an inherent vulnerability. The very partnership designed to reduce China’s coercive leverage is increasingly relying on Chinese technology to give effect to its objectives.
TECH SECURITYBuilding Trust into Tech: A Framework for Sovereign Resilience
Governments are facing a critical question: who can be trusted to build and manage their countries’ most sensitive systems? Vendor choices, for everything from cloud infrastructure to identity platforms, are no longer just commercial; they are strategic.
ENERGY SECURITYData Centers’ Insatiable Demand for Electricity Will Change the Entire Energy Sector
When the first large language models were unleashed, it triggered a headache for authorities around the world as they tried to figure out how to satisfy data centers’ endless demand for electricity.