Opinion

September 4, 2026

The Next Arms Race Will Be Fought in Markets

For most of modern history, military power has been measured in visible things: armies, ships, aircraft, missiles and, eventually, nuclear weapons. But behind every weapon is a less visible architecture—capital, technology, minerals,

There is No Neutral Map Anymore

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
September 3, 2026

Allies in Theory, Alone in Practice

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
August 28, 2026

A Tariff War With Canada Is No Victory

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,
August 22, 2026
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