A new U.S.-led alliance to secure semiconductor manufacturing highlights a deeper shift in global techno-geopolitics -- and the scale of India’s dependence on foreign technology across chips, energy a...
Once a pioneer that helped the world lay the foundations of machine learning, Japan’s renewed push into artificial intelligence reflects a search for economic resilience as much as technological relev...
By 2040, India’s passenger traffic is expected to grow six-fold, and exceed 1 billion. But consumer welfare can only be ensured with healthy competition in the industry and strong regulatory oversight...
Taiwan’s government has in recent years stepped up efforts to strengthen public communication amid growing security and disaster risks. But does this kind of guidance actually changes people's actions...
This report is not a political manifesto; it is an economic autopsy. It’s about the arithmetic of ruin. Between 2013 and 2025, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela experienced the single largest...
In December of 2024, before Trump took office, I wrote about the disturbing possibility that the man once known as a consummate China hawk would sell America out to its great rival. I wrote ...
The overthrow of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro by American military forces is arevival of a custom of ousting leaders, most of them Latin American dictators, to bendtheir countries to the will ...
Here we go again. The United States has deployed military forces to Venezuela with the stated objective of removing President Nicolás Maduro from power. The familiar rhetoric has returned: restoring d...
As the war in Ukraine continues unabated, and the Trump administration continues its efforts toward some sort of negotiated settlement, ‘peace plans’ of a wide variety have emerged from talks th...
Writing in the “Never Trump” outlet The Bulwark, columnist Jonathan V. Last says the transformation of Georgia’s US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene represents “the best hope for liberalism in Am...
President Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters that the heads of American oil companies were informed of the US military’s attack on Venezuela even before it took place. Trump’s admission sparked con...
No one, at least no one who paid any attention to the lessons of history, ever thought that peace and stability in the Middle East could be achieved easily. It is, nonetheless, sobering to see so many...
In the early 2000s, the world of fine spirits broke. Demand for aged whiskey and fine wine exploded with new wealth, new buyers and a global culture shift. Everyone could see it. But supply couldn’t r...
The significance of Venezuela’s current crisis, after Washington captured the country’s president in Caracas at the weekend, does not rest on barrels lost or prices gained. It rests on control. ...
American President Donald Trump’s military operation in Venezuela on January 3, 2026 — Operation Absolute Resolve — has been presented as a necessary and proportionate response to “narcotics trafficki...