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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 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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are intensifying antitrust scrutiny of leading technology companies over their growing dominance in the artificial intelligen…
The United States Senate passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion infrastructure package Thursday evening, ending weeks of tense negotiations and delivering a major legislative win for the …
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…
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…
