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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…
Poland has spent most of its modern history being consequential in ways it did not choose. Partitioned three times in the eighteenth century. Occupied twice in the twentieth. Posit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
American democracy is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in half a century, driven by demographic shifts, technological disruption, and a deepening ideological polarizatio…
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…
From the northern reaches of Canada to the southern tip of Patagonia, democratic institutions across the Western Hemisphere face a moment of profound stress. A wave of authoritaria…
