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World Ethiopia's Fragile Experiment: Can Africa's Second-Most Populous Nation Hold Together?
The Tigray War that consumed northern Ethiopia between 2020 and 2022 was, by the measures that humanβ¦
Politics Eastern Europe's New Frontline: How Poland Became NATO's Most Consequential Member
Poland has spent most of its modern history being consequential in ways it did not choose. Partitionβ¦
World The Gulf's Soft Power Play: How Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia Are Rewriting Their Global Image
The 2022 FIFA World Cup that Qatar hosted was the most expensive sporting event in recorded history.β¦
World India's Infrastructure Decade: Building the Foundations of a Future Superpower
The highway running south from Delhi toward Agra used to take four hours on a good day. On a bad dayβ¦
Business Germany at an Inflection Point: The Industrial Giant That Must Reinvent Itself
For most of the post-war period, Germany's economic model was almost perfectly calibrated for the coβ¦
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The American Teacher Shortage: What Three Years of Empty Classrooms Reveal About a Profession
The math teacher at a middle school in rural Tennessee taught three different grade levels simultaneβ¦
Ghana's Democratic Test: What Africa's Most Stable Republic Faces Next
Ghana has earned, and to some extent jealously guards, a reputation as West Africa's most reliable dβ¦
Immigration Debate Reaches Boiling Point as Border Crossings Spike
A fresh surge in unauthorized border crossings has reignited the perennial and politically explosiveβ¦
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A Nation in Transition: The Changing Face of American Politics
American democracy is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in half a century, driven by demogβ¦
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The Housing Math That Does Not Add Up: Why Building More Homes Is Harder Than It Sounds
The argument for building more housing is simple enough that it can be stated in a single sentence: β¦
The Return of American Unions: Why Organized Labor Is Winning Again
The image that defined American labor for much of the twentieth century was the industrial union: teβ¦
Electric Vehicle Revolution Accelerates Across the Americas
The Americas are experiencing a rapid transformation in transportation as electric vehicles (EVs) gaβ¦
Border Cities at the Crossroads: El Paso, Laredo, and the Economy That Runs on Two Nations
There is a version of the American border story that lives entirely in Washington, expressed in termβ¦
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Colombia After the Peace Deal: What a Decade of Implementation Actually Looks Like
The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC was received, when it was sigβ¦
South Africa's Energy Emergency and What It Says About the Country's Future
Load shedding. The South African term for scheduled power cuts entered common usage sometime around β¦
Morocco's Pivot to the South: How Rabat Is Rewriting Its Role in Africa
Morocco spent much of the late twentieth century looking north across the Mediterranean, toward Euroβ¦
The New American City: How Migration Within the US Is Redrawing the Map
Somewhere between 2020 and now, the mental geography of American cities shifted. The hierarchy that β¦
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AI in the Courtroom: How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing American Law
The brief filed in a federal district court in Manhattan in 2023 contained citations to six cases thβ¦
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America's Semiconductor Gamble: Can Industrial Policy Override Two Decades of Offshoring?
In 1990, the United States produced roughly thirty-seven percent of the world's semiconductors. By 2β¦
Kenya's Silicon Savannah Grows Up: From Startup Hype to Industrial Scale
For a decade, the label attached itself to Nairobi the way these labels tend to: enthusiastically, iβ¦
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The Americas at a Turning Point: Economic Shifts, Political Realignments, and a New Regional Identity
Introduction Across the Western Hemisphere, a quiet transformation is underway. From North Americaββ¦
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Americasβ Tech Hubs Compete for Global Talent
Cities across the Americas are racing to become leading technology hubs, attracting top talent from β¦
New Study Links Ultra-Processed Foods to Accelerated Cognitive Decline
A landmark study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine has found a strong assocβ¦
Mental Health Crisis Among Teenagers Prompts Congressional Action
Alarming data on adolescent mental health has spurred rare bipartisan agreement in Congress, where lβ¦
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NBA Playoffs: Record Viewership as Four-Team Race Captivates Nation
The 2026 NBA playoffs are delivering on their promise of exceptional basketball, with average viewerβ¦
Major League Baseball Attendance Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Highs
Major League Baseball is on pace for its best attendance season since 2019, with total fans through β¦
Women's World Cup Qualifying: USWNT Faces Stiff Competition in Final Rounds
The U.S. Women's National Team navigated a difficult 1-0 victory over Canada in World Cup qualifyingβ¦
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Streaming Wars Enter New Phase as Studios Rethink Theatrical Strategy
Hollywood is quietly reassessing the streaming-first model that reshaped the industry during the panβ¦
Summer Music Festival Season Promises Unprecedented Lineup of Acts
The 2026 outdoor concert and festival season is shaping up to be the most competitive in memory, witβ¦
Award Season Preview: The Films Generating Early Oscar Buzz
With the major summer releases still months away, awards-season prognosticators are already buildingβ¦
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Brazil's Amazon Dilemma: Balancing Sovereignty, Agriculture, and the World's Lungs
Few pieces of territory on earth carry as much contradictory weight as the Brazilian Amazon. It is sβ¦
Inside America's Water Crisis: Western States and a Reckoning That Keeps Getting Delayed
The Colorado River does not reach the sea anymore. For most of the year, it runs dry somewhere in thβ¦
Quantum Computing Crosses Key Threshold, Researchers Announce
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago and IBM has demonstrated a quantum computing systβ¦
Space Economy Booms as Private Launches Reach Historic Milestone
The commercial space industry reached a landmark this week when the total number of private orbital β¦
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U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strong Recovery Amid Rising Consumer Spending
The American economy continued to show signs of recovery this week as new reports revealed increasedβ¦