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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 …
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 brief filed in a federal district court in Manhattan in 2023 contained citations to six cases that did not exist. The lawyer who filed it, using an AI legal research tool that …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
A fresh surge in unauthorized border crossings has reignited the perennial and politically explosive debate over American immigration policy, exposing once again the deep divisions…
American democracy is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in half a century, driven by demographic shifts, technological disruption, and a deepening ideological polarizatio…
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 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 …
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…
