Predictors of America's future fall into two camps: the extrapolators and the leapers. The extrapolators take what exists and slowly turn the dial in order to learn what's next. The leapers posit a ...

To meet the ambitious goal, Bank of America will have to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from its own operations as well as engage with the companies it lends to in order to “help accelerate their ...

We can’t predict if the United States will survive as a democratic republic until 2050. It’s barely one in 2022. But we can imagine what it would take to make it one. In fact, for the survival of ...

Researchers analyzed over 100 cities across Africa, Asia and Latin America, where they modeled three growth scenarios.

Structural reforms like ranked-choice voting could take decades. The right leader could expedite the process and save the republic in the meantime. It’s 2050. Does the United States of America as We ...

Americans’ life expectancy is expected to stall by 2050 because of increasing obesity and drug use, researchers said this week. Right now, the country is on an upward trajectory, but improvements are ...

If you're getting tired of unrelentingly bad news about the national debt—well, I have some terrible news. Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a 30-year budget projection. By 2050, ...

The loss of life and economic costs stemming from the recent crisis in Texas have demonstrated that electric power is a necessity, not an ordinary commodity. While fact finding has just begun, it’s ...

The Mississippi River pushed relentlessly past dozens of levees this month. Towns were submerged, their buildings tiny islands in murky water. Ducks paddled on ponds that had once been farmland. Some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about key developments influencing the energy transition. Twelve weeks on from COP26 and there has been no significant ...