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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 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…
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 …
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…
The 2026 NBA playoffs are delivering on their promise of exceptional basketball, with average viewership up 31 percent compared to the same rounds last year as four genuinely compe…
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…
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…
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…
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…
