US bid to confront China will further deteriorate Sino-US political relations, making arms control all the more difficult. Understanding how Chinese leaders frame the issue, while toning down the rhetoric, is likely to go further toward developing mutual security in arms control negotiations. 

Australia is debating how best to harness artificial intelligence (AI) for economic growth, especially to boost its long-sluggish productivity. In their latest book, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, 2024 Nobel laureates in economics Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson challenge the notion that technology inevitably drives social welfare, contending that strong institutions and deliberate policy directions are just as important in shaping equitable outcomes. 

Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was the 39th president of the United States. His period in office is bookended by the political carnage of mid 1970s America, left by the earlier Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies, and the Hollywood style of Ronald Reagan from 1981. Carter’s term is largely overlooked and often derided, yet he had some important success.