In 2025, the U.S. federal debt exceeded $37 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office forecasted in March 2025 that the debt will reach 156 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2055. Left ...

The U.S. defense strategy and posture have become insolvent. The tasks that the nation expects its military forces and other elements of national power to do internationally exceed the means that are ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in essential infrastructure and services, the risks associated with unintended failures rise. Future critical failures from ...

Migration over the U.S. southwest border in the past decade has been composed of growing numbers of undocumented and asylum-seeking families and children from Mexico and Central America, with larger ...

In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping endorsed a new initiative, known as the Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), that could help solve humanity's pressing energy and climate dilemmas through the ...

Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote is a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He served as the deputy chief of staff, Strategy, Integration, and Requirements, Headquarters, United ...

The pattern of American life and death has shifted dramatically in the last century. People live longer, healthier lives. Relatively few die of acute causes. Instead, most Americans die from lingering ...

Information operations and warfare, also known as influence operations, includes the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as the dissemination of propaganda in pursuit of a ...

A description of the Delphi Technique which attempts to make effective use of informed intuitive judgment in long-range forecasting. The Delphi method in its simplest form solicits the opinions of ...

This Memorandum describes the thirteen-year life of the JOHNNIAC computer, a Princeton-class machine designed and built at the RAND Corporation in 1953. The history presented here is based on ...

An examination of the difficulties of simulating cognitive processes on computers. It reveals that the attempt to analyze intelligent behavior in digital computer language systematically excludes ...

Our standards for high-quality and objective research and analysis describe how RAND research embodies our core values of quality and objectivity. The standards should be evident in the conduct of our ...