How rogue nations are capitalizing on gaps in crypto regulation to finance weapons programs
By Nolan Fahrenkopf, University at Albany, State University of New York
Two years after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, families of the victims filed suit against Binance, a major cryptocurrency platform...
With Iran weakened, Trump’s end goal may now be regime change. It’s an incredibly risky gamble
By Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western...
A Reckoning for the Tech Right
Silicon Valley’s top CEOs have been noticeably silent after the Minneapolis shooting.
By Lila Shroff, The Atlantic
Hours after Alex Pretti was...
Rebirth of the madman theory? Unpredictability isn’t what it was when it comes to foreign policy
By Andrew Latham, Macalester College
Tariffs are on, until they...
Wall Street's playbook for 2026 already needs to be rewritten
By Madison Mills, Axios
Investors are confronting a different world, marked by the Trump administration's aggressive...
Who really holds the cards: Trump or the bond market?
By Alex Dryden, SOAS, University of London
When a Danish pension fund recently announced it would sell...
On January 20, 2026, after President Donald Trump announced he would hit eight European countries with new tariffs for not going along with his plans …
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her …
America can't keep out China's cheap EVs forever. Two decades ago, a California company called Tesla Motors almost single-handedly created the electric vehicle as we now know it. Elon Musk’s company has dominated the industry across the globe ever since. But last year, for the first time in a long …
New York — There’s a pitch taking root within the Trump administration and some corners of Wall Street that envisions two somewhat incompatible realities playing out at once: rapid economic growth and low inflation. It’s a tantalizing idea — typically, rapid growth creates greater demand, which tends …
The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first—and now it might be coming apart. Initially it was a rescue, and then a romance. But then Sam seemed to undergo a personality change. He became abusive when Europa ignored his demands and even threatened violence. …
Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon
By Saman Zonouz, Georgia Institute of Technology
The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital...
Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald
Canada’s leader is a sane adult. America’s leader isn’t.
By Paul Krugman
On Tuesday Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, gave a remarkable speech at...
America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less...
Why the OpenAI–ServiceNow Deal Explains the Next Phase of Enterprise Software
OpenAI and ServiceNow announced a multi-year partnership to embed AI agents directly into ServiceNow’s...
Trump Drops Tariff Threat Over Greenland After Assailing Europe
By Lara Jakes, Jim Tankersley and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, NY Times
Trump says he has a framework for a Greenland...
The Trump administration says we should learn from other countries. Maybe they should have looked someplace besides Denmark. IT WAS ABOUT FIVE IN THE …
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her …
How public health became an endless battle Three days into 2026, the United States military seized a foreign leader: Nicolás Maduro. Four days after that, the U.S. health department freed a longtime prisoner of war: saturated fats. At a recent press conference announcing the publication of the …
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
By Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip, graphics by Lucas Waldron, ProPublica.org
When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the...
Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extract
By Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Since Donald Trump...
RFK Jr. guts the US childhood vaccine schedule despite its decades-long safety record
By Jake Scott, Stanford University
The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood...