The Decline, Fall and Rebirth of the American...

Forty years ago, a college education was the best investment any American could make in his or her future. A BA or BS delivered knowledge and credibility worth vastly more than its price. But beyond the STEM and business...

Senolytics and the Search for Optimized Aging

The world’s population is rapidly aging. The greatest impact is being felt in the affluent OECD countries, where consumption, productivity, and innovation are being negatively impacted. Since the dawn of the industrial...

Great Power Demographics

As Trends subscribers know, the future is determined by trends in demography, technology, and human behavior. Of these three, demography is the most predictable and the hardest to change. Today’s international arena is...

Space, The Final (Military) Frontier

The Sino-American struggle for 21st-century dominance is complex involving a wide range of intertwined political, economic, and military threats and opportunities. Inevitably, space will be a major theatre of operations is...

The New Reality of Sino-American Relations

For the past 25 years, the United States has executed a strategy based on the idea that a combination of persistent engagement and prudent hedging would ultimately integrate Beijing into the American-led international...