Articles from FEE

In November, Georgians will elect a new governor. Several issues have come to define this election cycle, and the two candidates’ platforms offer significantly different solutions to the problems facing the state. Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her opponent Rick Jackson will also have to navigate national referendums on their respective parties. But if there is...

In the Italian comedy Quo Vado?, Checco Zalone plays a 39-year-old who lives with his parents and clings desperately to his permanent government job. Even when transferred to an Arctic research station, he refuses to surrender his posto fisso—permanent government job. The joke works because it captures a national ideal: security from change. Yet when an entire economy seeks p...

Legislators in Washington and dozens of state capitals are racing to legislate away AI’s risks, even as Brussels delays parts of its own sweeping AI Act. Yet, AI promises earlier disease detection, faster drug discovery, better fra...

Emmanuel Moulin, Governor of the Bank of France, issued a stark warning on Friday, September 25: France must do “everything possible to avoid a sovereign debt crisis” ahead of the 2027 presidential elections...

Since the start of the 21st century, Poland has seemed like a textbook example of sustainable development. The break from a centrally planned economy in the late 1980s, the opening of the market, and relatively low labor costs attracted substantial foreign capital. GDP began to grow rapidly, and for the first time, money appeared in Poles’ pockets.

While Western Europe...