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 simultaneously for most of the 2023-2024 school year. The p…
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 simultaneously the largest tropical rainforest in t…
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 2020, that share had fallen to twelve percent. The …
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 increased consumer spending and steady job growth across se…
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 2008 and has not left since. At its worst, it has …
Electric Vehicle Revolution Accelerates Across the Americas
The Americas are experiencing a rapid transformation in transportation as electric vehicles (EVs) gain traction across the region. Governments, busine…
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 Europe, toward the trade relationships and diplomatic …
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 held for most of the twentieth century, with New Y…
Uganda at a Crossroads: Oil, Debt, and the Question of Who Pays for Development
The pipeline has been years in the making and, for the Ugandan government, years in the promising. When oil was discovered in the Albertine Rift in we…
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 the Mexican desert well before it reaches the Gulf o…