Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
By Paul Krugman
Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on Iran unless its government opened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a deadline that would expire Monday evening in...
Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
By Paul Krugman
Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on...
Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
By Paul Krugman
Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on...
Iran suspects Trump's peace talk push is another trick
By Barak Ravid and Marc Caputo, Axios
Iranian officials have told the countries trying to mediate peace...
The Trouble With Seizing Kharg Island
The Trump administration is contemplating a move that could end or escalate the Iran war.
By Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic
In the...
As war raises oil prices, households pay while energy companies profit
By Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia
War is costly. The ongoing American-Israeli war on...
Patient(s) Zero
Iran Fallout
Courtesy of Scott Galloway, No Mercy/No Malice
Sometimes the canary in the coal mine is an early warning system. Other times, a...
Can British drones help secure the strait of Hormuz for international shipping?
By Arun Dawson, King's College London
After pressing allies for support – and being...
Targeting of energy facilities turned Iran war into worst‑case scenario for Gulf states
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University
The U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran took...
From the strait of Hormuz to Malacca, global trade relies almost entirely on these five narrow waterways
By Gokcay Balci, University of Leeds and Ebru Surucu-Balci,...
Global copper demand outstrips supply, threatening electrification and industrial growth
By Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Adam Charles Simon, University of Michigan
Demand for...
US waives shipping regulation to ease fuel, fertilizer deliveries
By Jarrett Renshaw, Reuters
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a 60-day waiver of Jones Act shipping regulations...
Going nuclear? Why a growing number of Washington’s allies are eyeing an alternative to US umbrella
By Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame
Canadians are openly discussing...
Donald Trump, Petropresident
Follow the Gulf oil money
By Paul Krugman
Why did Donald Trump attack Iran? Did he believe that a quick victory would boost his...
The Disappearing Off-Ramp in Iran
The options for ending the war keep getting fewer and worse.
By Thomas Wright, The Atlantic
The window for Donald Trump to end...
President Donald Trump is increasingly at the mercy of forces he unleashed but can’t control — so he’s taking aim at the umpires. Gas prices surging. Unemployment climbing. War with Iran threatening to engulf his presidency. The fracturing of his political coalition. The collapse of his signature …
The 21st century is more likely to belong to Beijing than to Washington — at least that’s the view from four key U.S. allies. Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. have soured on the U.S., driven by President Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions, according to recent results …
Dario Amodei’s Oppenheimer Moment
It came earlier than expected.
By Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the...
Oil isn’t just fuel: Iran conflict could disrupt markets for everything from plastics to fertilizers
André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tensions in the Middle East...
GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people
By Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis
A patient...
Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer
By Sagar Lekhak, Rochester Institute of Technology
At least 57 nations have...