As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports science, I can say unequivocally that philanthropy …

As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports science, I can say unequivocally that philanthropy …

The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to the business world. It implies that gaining insights …

The phrase “Sputnik moment” is often used to describe a moment when a country—usually the United States—needs to respond to some technological leap made by another nation. The wake-up call is meant to provoke more investment in research, development, and education. Today, the United States faces another Sputnik moment, but this time, the threat isn’t coming from abroad—it’s coming from within.

The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to the business world. It implies that gaining insights …

The phrase “Sputnik moment” is often used to describe a moment when a country—usually the United States—needs to respond to some technological leap made by another nation. The wake-up call is meant to provoke more investment in research, development, and education. Today, the United States faces another Sputnik moment, but this time, the threat isn’t coming from abroad—it’s coming from within.

The Biological Weapons Convention turned 50 this year. Since 1975, the intent of this international treaty has been to prohibit the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. Global commitment to these objectives is …

The endless churn of damaging actions from the Trump administration toward science—from freezing and canceling grants to ending programs that encourage greater participation in science—has wreaked havoc in American universities and reverberated around …

The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Grants have been canceled mid-project for featuring the wrong words. “Pauses” and “reviews” are designed to block spending, in the hope that Congress will make the current impoundment of funds a baseline for permanent disinvestment. While the scientific community waits to see what the new normal will be, the Trump administration has a plan to institutionalize a much more politicized structure of control over government broadly, including both public scientific investments and the use of scientific knowledge in policy actions.

The endless churn of damaging actions from the Trump administration toward science—from freezing and canceling grants to ending programs that encourage greater participation in science—has wreaked havoc in American universities and reverberated around …