Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to transform our world, for better or worse, in ways that defy our comprehension. But we must try to understand the possible impacts of AI, lest its...

The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,“ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel”…

The 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence has come at a time when many Americans have heightened concerns about the future of our republic’s democratic experiment. At such a time,...

: A Political-Economics Perspective

Love this picture I took of Roger Myerson outside the Chicago Fed building in 2012. As I recall, he was explaining incentive compatible contracts to the young fellow.😅

Charles Krauthammer has accused President Obama of not being seriously concerned about Israel’s security because the President seems disinclined to make hard military threats against Iran.  I…

By Roger Myerson, Project Syndicate | May 6, 2026 Ever since the American and French Revolutions, which took markedly different paths, democracy has grown most steadily when it has been rooted in loc...

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There are no easy paths forward after SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act.

Roger Myerson thinks aspiring reformers should focus first on delivering results at the level of subnational government.

The Defense Department "was not expecting it," a congressional aide said.

Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division...

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said Greenlanders could vote to join Russia if U.S. President Donald Trump did not move quickly to secure the Arctic island, Interfax reported ...

It’s not clear the administration has settled on a goal, much less considered the consequences.

Roger Myerson, The Strength of U.S. Federal Democracy, Horizons: Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development, No. 5, United States: The Giant Challenged (AUTUMN 2015), pp. 178-189

God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.

Commentary. In striking contrast to the progressive centralization of administration, there seems to have been very little centralization of political control. The measurement in chapter 4 (Riker and ...