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The first months of any administration reveal the actual architecture of power behind the elected official at its center. Titles matter less than access. Cabinet appointments matte…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
