America turned 250 with fireworks in the sky, storms on the horizon, and a political argument in the middle of the celebration. That is not a contradiction. It is the most American
Executive Summary Since its creation in 1961, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has helped expand access to vaccines, food, schooling, and emergency relief for millions of people, particularly in Africa,
Mark Carney’s embrace of a West Coast pipeline is more than an energy announcement. It is an overdue recognition that Canada cannot keep pretending its resource economy can be managed by slogans,
Latin America’s new right has mastered the politics of anger. It has learned to campaign against crime, inflation, corruption, cultural change, and “the caste,” promising voters a clean break from exhausted parties
The G7 meeting in France is best understood not as a photo-op for seven wealthy democracies, but as a stress test of the Western order itself. It exposed two realities at once:
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed in principle to create new bilateral mechanisms — including a Board of Trade and a Board of Investment — under a “reciprocal
A US trade delegation will visit India from June 1–4, to try to lock in the text of an interim trade agreement and push forward work on a broader Bilateral Trade Agreement
A Canada–India trade agreement may seem modest in aggregate volume, but it is disproportionately important for Canada’s diversification strategy and North American supply‑chain resilience, especially in critical minerals, clean energy, and knowledge‑intensive
Marco Rubio’s May 2026 visit to India is not diplomatic pageantry; it is an attempt to re-anchor a relationship whose economic and security stakes are now systemic for both countries and for
The Pentagon’s new AI task force is an inflection point: it could harden America’s most sensitive networks against rapidly evolving cyber threats—or quietly wire fragile, corporate-built AI into the heart of U.S.
The Trump‑Xi summit in Beijing was staged as a pageant of great‑power stability: honor guards on Tiananmen, children waving flags, two leaders speaking of partnership and peace. Yet the most consequential subject
For much of the past decade, the United States watched its influence in the Sahel steadily erode. France’s retreat from Mali, a succession of military coups across West Africa, and growing anti-Western
For the first time since World War II (not taking into account the COVID years), U.S. public debt has eclipsed the nation’s annual output, and that watershed is already altering risk calculations