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The first months of any administration reveal the actual architecture of power behind the elected official at its center. Titles matter less than access. Cabinet appointments matte…
The Tigray War that consumed northern Ethiopia between 2020 and 2022 was, by the measures that humanitarian organizations use to assess catastrophe, one of the worst conflicts of t…
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 Expressway that replaced the old …
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 there are homes available, and the…
The American economy continued to show signs of recovery this week as new reports revealed increased consumer spending and steady job growth across several industries. Economists s…
Somewhere between 2020 and now, the mental geography of American cities shifted. The hierarchy that held for most of the twentieth century, with New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago …
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 of California, absorbed entirel…
There is a version of the American border story that lives entirely in Washington, expressed in terms of enforcement budgets, detention capacity, and legislative standoffs. Then th…
Cities across the Americas are racing to become leading technology hubs, attracting top talent from around the world. Toronto, São Paulo, and Austin are emerging as focal points f…
The 2026 NBA playoffs are delivering on their promise of exceptional basketball, with average viewership up 31 percent compared to the same rounds last year as four genuinely compe…
