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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 2022 FIFA World Cup that Qatar hosted was the most expensive sporting event in recorded history. The figure most cited, somewhere north of two hundred billion dollars when all …
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 …
For most of the post-war period, Germany's economic model was almost perfectly calibrated for the conditions it faced. A highly skilled industrial workforce. Deep expertise in mech…
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 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 a single industry, organized u…
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…
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 meant twelve hours a day witho…
The Americas are experiencing a rapid transformation in transportation as electric vehicles (EVs) gain traction across the region. Governments, businesses, and consumers are embrac…
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 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 western Uganda in the mid-2000s,…
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…
Ghana has earned, and to some extent jealously guards, a reputation as West Africa's most reliable democracy. Six peaceful transfers of power since the return to multiparty electio…
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…
For a decade, the label attached itself to Nairobi the way these labels tend to: enthusiastically, imprecisely, and with just enough truth to stick. Silicon Savannah. The name capt…
For decades, the story of places like Youngstown, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, was told in the past tense. Steel mills shuttered. Populations thinned. Downtown storefronts gave way to …
Introduction Across the Western Hemisphere, a quiet transformation is underway. From North America’s economic recalibration to South America’s political evolution, the nations…
The decoupling of American and Chinese supply chains is beginning to show up in the data in ways that are reshaping global commerce. New research documents a significant diversific…
The commercial space industry reached a landmark this week when the total number of private orbital launches in 2026 surpassed the previous full-year record with eight months still…
With candidate filing deadlines now closed in most states, the contours of the 2026 midterm elections are coming into sharp focus. Control of the House of Representatives appears g…
America's housing affordability crisis shows no signs of abating as mortgage rates remain stubbornly elevated, pricing millions of would-be buyers out of the market and trapping ex…
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are intensifying antitrust scrutiny of leading technology companies over their growing dominance in the artificial intelligen…
The artificial intelligence revolution is accelerating faster than even its architects predicted, and the ripple effects are beginning to reshape the American workforce in ways bot…
The Federal Reserve indicated Wednesday it may hold interest rates steady at its next meeting, citing a complex economic landscape marked by cooling inflation but persistent labor …
