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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…
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 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…
The math teacher at a middle school in rural Tennessee taught three different grade levels simultaneously for most of the 2023-2024 school year. The position for a dedicated sevent…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
