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US Politics

The Quiet Crisis: How Cutting Scientific Research Undermines Our National Future

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, but crucial scientific work is now at risk with experiments hanging in the air. This reckless abandonment of scientific progress undermines our nation's technological leadership and jeopardizes critical research that protects public safety and advances human knowledge.

Geopolitics

The Panic Button: How America's Chaotic R&D Restructuring Reveals a Failing Imperial Model

The Trump administration's new science and technology strategy aims to fundamentally restructure US R&D funding by shifting resources away from traditional universities towards private partners and new institutional models, while simultaneously proposing deep cuts to core science agencies. This desperate, nativist, and politically-driven gambit is a self-inflicted wound that will cripple American scientific leadership, alienate global talent, and cede the technological future to the resilient, long-term strategies of the Global South.