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Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald

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 the World Economic Forum in Davos. In effect he announced, calmly and lucidly, that Canada is filing for divorce from...
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Why the OpenAI–ServiceNow Deal Explains the Next Phase of Enterprise Software

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‘This is a platform shift’: Jensen Huang says the traditional computing stack will never look the same because of AI —

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Trump Drops Tariff Threat Over Greenland After Assailing Europe

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...

Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum

Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum By Sean Boynton, Global News  Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech...

Trump Family Makes $1.4 Billion Off Crypto in 2025, Offsetting Losses Elsewhere

Trump Family Makes $1.4 Billion Off Crypto in 2025, Offsetting Losses Elsewhere Crypto is now said to account for roughly 20% of the family’s $6.8...

Robert Kagan: America vs. the World (a must read)

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...

A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan

A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan Can American democracy come back from the brink? With Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos, The...

‘Unchecked Corruption’: First US Sale of Venezuelan Oil Goes to Company of Trump Megadonor

‘Unchecked Corruption’: First US Sale of Venezuelan Oil Goes to Company of Trump Megadonor “Trump took Venezuela’s oil at gunpoint, and gave it to one...

Trump’s demands put Europe in FAFO territory

Trump’s demands put Europe in FAFO territory ~ Ian Bremmer's Quick Take Checking in from the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Ian Bremmer breaks...

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress ever step in? By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic Let me begin by quoting, in full,...

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order

Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order By Donald Heflin, Tufts University   Make Denmark angry. Make Norway angry. Make...

Why “taking over” Greenland would be illegal, foolish — and strategically beneficial to Russia

Why “taking over” Greenland would be illegal, foolish — and strategically beneficial to Russia The proposal that the United States should seize or “take over”...

Euro Pain From Trump Limited by US Asset Exposure, Deutsche Says

Euro Pain From Trump Limited by US Asset Exposure, Deutsche Says By Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg, at Yahoo Finance   The fallout on the euro from President Donald...

Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump

Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump The Fed chair has saved Trump from his worst instincts but failed to do so for Biden. By Roger Lowenstein, The...

Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink

Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink By Amanda Meng, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alberto Dainotti, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Zachary Bischof,...

Cracks Begin to Appear at the Nation’s Biggest Banks

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Trump buys $1m in Netflix and Warner Bros bonds days after saying he’ll ‘be involved’ in merger

Trump buys $1m in Netflix and Warner Bros bonds days after saying he’ll ‘be involved’ in merger Warner Bros is also being pursued by Paramount...

Europe vows ‘firm’ response to new Trump tariffs over Greenland

Europe vows ‘firm’ response to new Trump tariffs over Greenland “China and Russia must be having a field day,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas...

How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption

How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption This new source of money is giving the administration unprecedented new powers. By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic  Brandon LaRoque kept his...

Before Venezuela’s oil, there were Guatemala’s bananas

Before Venezuela’s oil, there were Guatemala’s bananas By Aaron Coy Moulton, Stephen F. Austin State University In the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that seized Venezuelan...

What next for Iran as Trump pulls back?

What next for Iran as Trump pulls back? By Jonathan Este, The Conversation   For anyone who has watched Iranians take to the streets before, as they have...

Why the Trump administration is holding millions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales in a Qatari bank

Why the Trump administration is holding millions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales in a Qatari bank By Chris Isidore and Adam Cancryn, CNN Hundreds of...

‘This is a platform shift’: Jensen Huang says the traditional computing stack will never look the same because of AI —

‘This is a platform shift’: Jensen Huang says the traditional computing stack will never look the same because of AI – ChatGPT and Claude...

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”

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Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extract

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

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...

2026 May Be The Year Coral Reefs Around The World Finally Collapse

Tropical coral reefs cover less than 1% of the seafloor, yet support 25% of all marine species. They are also incredibly vulnerable. Over the past …

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan By Peter Zeihan Japan is restarting the world’s largest nuclear power plant, after a 15-year shutdown following the...

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses By Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across...

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine The Connective and Last-Meter Layers of AI Electrification Part 2 of this series...