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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 …
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…
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…
Morocco spent much of the late twentieth century looking north across the Mediterranean, toward Europe, toward the trade relationships and diplomatic alignments that connected it t…
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 …
Oceanographers exploring the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific have documented an unexpectedly rich and previously unknown ecosystem clustered around a cluster of deep-sea hyd…
In a landmark gathering this week, political, economic, and social leaders from across the Americas convened to discuss shared challenges and opportunities facing the Western Hemis…
