A President With Nothing Left to Lose?
Democrats flipped Senate seats in Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine and both Carolinas. James Talarico beat Ken Paxton in Texas. Susan Collins lost in Maine. Republicans walked into Election Day holding the
AI Gold Rush Hits a Local Revolt
On Tuesday, as Americans vote in the midterm elections, a quiet but potent collision will be tested at the ballot box: President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to accelerate artificial intelligence through rapid
The Art of Diversification: India’s New Trade Diplomacy
India’s Dual Trade Agreements with the EU and New Zealand Signal a Deliberate Shift Toward Diversified, Rules-Based Market Access This year, India concluded negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the
The Red Zone is Not a Season; It is a System
The most revealing fact about the Cornell case is not that a university fraternity allegedly became the setting for a horrifying sexual assault. It is that, after the alleged assault, nearly every
War and Oil Pollution Threaten Gulf Ecosystems
Oil pollution has reached the Hara mangrove forests of Iran’s Qeshm Island, raising fresh concerns over the environmental consequences of the continuing conflict between Iran and the United States in one of
Novorossiysk Is a Warning, Not an Anomaly
The war in Eastern Europe has just delivered a lesson the West has been slow to absorb: this is no longer a regional conflict that can be managed, contained or waited out.
Pakistan’s Silent War on Its Own Territory
For two months, the mountain towns of Pakistan-administered Kashmir have been under a kind of siege that rarely makes it into Western headlines. Rangers have fired on unarmed crowds. Internet and mobile
The World Cup Won’t Save the Democrats; But It Might Help Them Rebuild
There is a moment in every big sporting event when a stadium, a bar, or a living room full of strangers becomes, briefly, a single organism. Everyone is watching the same ball,
What the U.S.-Tehran Peace Framework Actually Means
The United States and Iran have agreed to a framework for peace that focuses on ending hostilities and reopening the Strait of Hormuz while leaving Iran’s nuclear program for future negotiations. President
The Parallel Order: How the Global South Is Building Its Own Development System
The report ‘The Parallel Order: How the Global South Is Building Its Own Development System’ examines how emerging economies are creating a parallel, commercially driven development architecture that is reshaping trade, finance,
The Symbolism Behind Trump-Xi Meet
As Air Force One touched down in Beijing this month, the optics surrounding Donald Trump’s return to China were impossible to ignore. Nearly a decade after his first state visit in 2017,
Tariffs in Yuan: Is Iran Ringing the Bell on the Petrodollar Age?
Iran’s push to collect Strait of Hormuz oil transit tariffs in Chinese yuan signals a real, though gradual, erosion of the US “petrodollar” system at the margins, but it does not yet
Germany, NATO and the Price of a U.S. Retreat
Trump’s threat to trim U.S. troops in Germany would weaken America’s military posture in Europe unless it were paired with a deliberate, allied-backed redesign of the force posture. A sudden or politically
