But rather than affirming US dominance in a second Cold War, the analysis here can just as easily be employed to question the ...

Midterm elections rarely bring out the best in presidents. Almost invariably facing electoral headwinds, chief executives often resort to stunts and gimmicks that do little more than confirm the ...

NEOM AI Data Center Plan, Saudi Arabia, 2025. In May 2025, Donald Trump, accompanied by many of Silicon Valley’s luminaries, traveled to Saudi Arabia, Doha, and Abu Dhabi for the first overseas ...

South Africa today is among the world’s foremost players in state and private militarization, producing weapons and exporting expertise for militias and national armed forces. This stems in part from ...

In January 2026, the Trump administration imposed a total blockade of oil shipments to Cuba, plunging its oil-dependent electricity grid into chaos. The administration’s economic war marks the latest ...

Paul Heideman holds a PhD in American studies from Rutgers University–Newark. He is most recently the author of Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos.

Small countries, big firms, and the end of the fifth Schumpetarian wave Finland is not the only economy facing “Nokia risk.” A larger group of seven countries—all of them relatively small, rich, and ...

In the international legal system, the Palestinian cause has made significant headway since the start of the war in Gaza. In addition to legal processes that have arisen from Israel’s conduct in the ...

The debate about US and European competitiveness illustrates how narratives of economic decline and triumphalism tend to outrun their evidence This is a form of “declinism,” a framework that is ...

From acquiring government equity stakes in private industries and threatening to seize defense contractors, to signing revenue-sharing agreements with chipmakers and announcing a slew of tariffs and ...

Over the past two decades, Brazil has seen two great swings in its distribution of real national income. In the years between 2004 and 2014, the wage share increased progressively. This phenomenon ...