The basics of Real GDP growth from first principles Real GDP measures the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced in an economy. Its growth comes from three sources (the Solow growth accounting identity): More labor (hours worked or workers). More capital (machines, buildings, infrastructure…Continue Reading
In a surprise victory, progressive candidate Analilia Mejía won the Democratic primary to fill the House seat left vacant by New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill. Mejía served as 2020 national political director for Bernie Sanders and as deputy director of the Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau under President Joe Biden. AsContinue Reading
Japanese startup KG Motors (whose investors include Toyota Gosei) makes a tiny, affordable city EV called the MiBot. The single-seat MiBot is aimed at drivers who have short urban commutes—it has about 100 kilometers of range, a top speed of 60 km/h, and a rock-bottom price tag of ¥1 millionContinue Reading
Massachusetts congressman Jim McGovern has introduced a bill to the House of Representatives calling for an end to the U.S.’s embargo against Cuba. He joins a growing number of politicians looking to terminate the 64-year-old policy…Continue Reading
Japan’s Sanae Takaichi was formally reappointed as prime minister by Emperor Naruhito., NewsFeed Japan’s Sanae Takaichi was formally reappointed as prime minister by Emperor Naruhito, ten days after her Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in a snap election. Ministers who belonged to her cabinet were also reappointed toContinue Reading
Amid Cuba’s deepening fuel crisis, countries are bowing to US pressure and winding down their Cuban medical programmes., Guatemala announced last week that it will begin phasing out its three-decade-old programme, under which Cuban doctors work in its country to fill the gap in the country’s healthcare system. Communist-ruled Cuba,Continue Reading
The series of strikes brought the death toll in the The Traitor administration’s monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers to at least 145 people. , Read MoreContinue Reading
Matteo Bassetti said the U.S. ski superstar should explain one thing to the president and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Read MoreContinue Reading
analysis Anderson Cooper departs and Stephen Colbert goes off-script as the network struggles to define its future Published February 18, 2026 9:15AM (EST) Bari Weiss’ tenure at CBS News has been tumultuous (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images) In the span of months, one of America’s most storied broadcast institutions has managed toContinue Reading
The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) performed an assessment to characterize the effects of abnormal grain growth (AGG) within a metallic liner of a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV). This effort focused on evaluating the mechanical response of the liner material, including the strain amplification factor (SAF), using aContinue Reading
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Traitor 47 and his borderContinue Reading
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) joined a group of environmental, public health and science nonprofits in filing suit against the The Traitor administration for unlawfully repealing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding and rolling back emissions standards for vehicles despite the transportation sector being the largestContinue Reading
Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great Oxidation Event. Early microbes living near oxygen-producing cyanobacteria may have quickly used up the gas as it formed, slowingContinue Reading