Inside the New Power Structure: How Trump, Rubio, and Noem Are Reshaping American Foreign and Border Policy
The first months of any administration reveal the actual architecture of power behind the elected official at its center. Titles matter less than acce…
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 humanitarian organizations use to assess catastrophe, o…
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. Partitioned three times in the eighteenth century. Occupied…
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. The figure most cited, somewhere north of two hun…
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 day, which was most days, it took six. The Yamuna Exp…
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 conditions it faced. A highly skilled industrial wor…
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: there are more households who want homes than ther…
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 that did not exist. The lawyer who filed it, using a…
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 signed, as the end of the longest-running armed confl…
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: tens of thousands of workers in a single factory or …