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Part of resolving the political redistricting stalemate, writes Professor Jamie Tucker-Foltz, is creating congressional maps that align with human intuition about fairness.

We asked Professor Paul Bracken, an expert in nuclear strategy, what’s behind the posturing and what test explosions would mean for the world.

Advances in technology and a maturing development ecosystem have made renewable energy more economical, less risky, and increasingly rewarding for landowners, says Reid Buckley ’89, a partner at Orion Renewable Energy Group. But it has also become more politicized.

We asked Professor Nathan Novemsky, who has examined the psychology of gambling in multiple studies, how the ubiquity of betting is changing the way we watch sports.

Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that a successful campaign to reduce China’s market manipulation would require the kind of collective action that Trump has systematically undermined through his indiscriminate use of tariffs.

A growing, dynamic economy desperately needs smooth, legal pathways for highly skilled immigrants, says Doug Rand ’10, co-director of the Talent Mobility Fund.

A new Yale working paper sets out to quantify the effect of the controversies over Musk’s transformation of Twitter and his time leading DOGE, and finds that they may have cost Tesla one million sales.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sparked controversy when he seemed to be inviting President Donald Trump to send National Guard troops to San Francisco during the company’s Dreamforce conference. Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that Benioff demonstrated his usual deftness in defusing the issue and overseeing a successful event.

A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s John Barrios investigates how conflicts of interest erode trust in the very institutions meant to produce independent knowledge.