Americas

For years, Silicon Valley’s preferred answer to political controversy has been that technology is merely infrastructure. Algorithms rank, platforms host, maps map. Politics happens somewhere else. Lake Ontario has just demolished that

President Trump’s reported agreement to give the U.S. majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil is potentially one of the most consequential energy initiatives in the Western Hemisphere

Mark Carney called for pro-trade democracies to resist great-power coercion together. Seven months later, he is largely fighting Trump alone. In January at Davos, Mark Carney offered the most bracing account yet

By letting its hurried trade arrangement with Canada collapse, the Trump administration has chosen escalation over certainty — and a political spectacle over a durable North American economic strategy. At midnight Friday,

Canada’s trade numbers just delivered a genuine surprise, and for once, a pleasant one. The country’s merchandise trade surplus widened to C$3.86 billion in the latest reporting month, blowing past economist forecasts

The U.S. electricity sector is witnessing a wave of consolidation as utilities race to meet soaring power demand from artificial intelligence and data centers. At the center of this transformation is NextEra

There is a particular kind of American confidence that shows up whenever a new technology promises military advantage: build first, ask questions later. That confidence is now colliding with something far less

On Monday, President Trump signed three proclamations imposing 50 percent tariffs on a wide swath of Canadian goods — wine, hockey sticks, cement, electrical equipment, machinery, and more — under Section 338