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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 …
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 conflict in the Western Hemisphere.…
Few pieces of territory on earth carry as much contradictory weight as the Brazilian Amazon. It is simultaneously the largest tropical rainforest in the world and one of the most c…
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 decline tracked the broader lo…
The Americas are experiencing a rapid transformation in transportation as electric vehicles (EVs) gain traction across the region. Governments, businesses, and consumers are embrac…
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,…
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…
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…
Introduction Across the Western Hemisphere, a quiet transformation is underway. From North America’s economic recalibration to South America’s political evolution, the nations…
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…
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…
The 2026 outdoor concert and festival season is shaping up to be the most competitive in memory, with venues across North America announcing blockbuster lineups that span genres an…
A synthesis of recent research published in the journal Science suggests that several major climate tipping points — self-reinforcing thresholds beyond which changes become irrev…
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…
