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For all my reporting life, I’ve dreaded one question: What is the price of oil — the real one? Invariably asked during a crisis, it demands a neat...
Born into unimaginable luxury and showered with honors, the man formerly known as His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, will henceforth be...
Japan has remained largely immune to what is now the infamous wrath of U.S. President Donald Trump. To be sure, it did not receive special treatment...
As the Iran war prompts some countries to call for restrictions that hark back to the oil-shock era — Australia is urging people to take public...
Even as Israeli bombs were still raining down on Lebanon, most of the world breathed a cautious sigh of relief when news broke that Pakistan had...
An account of how Stalinism was dismantled in the Soviet Union, published more than seven decades after the tyrant’s death, should be one of those...
Less than 60 days before the start of the World Cup, I am already panicking: All my attempts to get tickets to see Argentina and Lionel Messi at...
U.S. President Donald Trump was supposed to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in April in what was to be a closely watched engagement between the...
India has three good reasons to engage with one of the biggest open questions in economics today: the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs....
While you wouldn’t know it from the recent U.S.-Israeli military confrontation with Iran, the latest U.S. National Security Strategy, made public in...
Has the demise of the department store finally arrived in Japan, which has held on to them longer than most? The news of the impending closure of the...
Seventy-nine education systems worldwide have restricted smartphone use in schools. France banned them for students under 15 in 2018. South Korea...
A naval blockade is not merely a coercive tactic to prevent vessels from entering or leaving a country’s ports. It is an act of war. History points...
In the event of a war with China, Taiwan has some surprisingly tough defenses that could make it as difficult to tackle as a porcupine: A shoreline...
Across the capitals of America’s closest allies — from Ottawa and Tokyo to Brussels, Canberra and Seoul — a dangerous geopolitical narrative has...
A 7,000-word piece of science fiction published on Substack by an obscure investment research firm helped trigger a worldwide market meltdown...
Governments around the world are struggling to deal with the economic impacts of the Iran war. That is somewhat understandable. They were blindsided...
A fact of American life that probably doesn’t receive enough attention is that the number of people in prison or jail in the U.S. has fallen by...
The Hungarian opposition’s decisive victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz Party has been greeted with relief across the...
With everything that’s going on in global markets right now, who’d want to be an investor? The answer, increasingly, is Japanese young people, who...
Algorithms are not value-neutral. Yet for over a decade now, we have allowed Big Tech to deploy them as the gatekeepers to our information ecosystem,...
Artificial intelligence isn’t just being blamed for killing jobs; it’s exposing the fundamental flaw in one of hiring’s oldest tools: the...
The drama following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” just over a year ago seemed to confirm a simple theory. On April 2, 2025,...
Kuomintang Chairperson Cheng Li-wun is living in the past, even though she believes that by engaging with the Chinese Communist Party on Beijing’s...
The virtuous loop that has seen America underwrite stability in the Middle East in exchange for Gulf states recycling their dollar revenues into U.S....
On the morning of April 7, as a fragile two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was taking shape through Pakistani intermediaries,...
U.S. President Donald Trump recently took to the podium to air a familiar grievance, lambasting America’s closest allies including NATO members,...
The military confrontation involving the United States, Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran reached an unprecedented boiling point this week. U.S....
Last year, I glommed onto a trend that is sweeping women of a certain age in the U.S.: I became a woman who lifts. Admittedly, describing myself as...
This military confrontation involving the United States, Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran reached an unprecedented boiling point this week....
Last week, I received an interesting invitation from an online television station. They wanted me to discuss whether the Japanese government should...
Three words uttered yesterday from Mission Control to Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, perfectly capture the groundswell of emotion many of us...
A few years ago, I had dinner with several former South Korean government officials, during which they urged me to encourage the United States...
Weeks into the craze, nobody quite knows what to make of the OpenClaw mania sweeping China, marked by viral photos of retirees lining up for...
In barely 15 months, U.S. President Donald Trump has generated more global upheaval than most leaders do in a lifetime. By eroding international...
When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet approved legislation last month to establish the National Intelligence Secretariat and a...
The key question about Iran’s energy-export terminal on Kharg Island is not whether the United States can seize or disable it. Of course it can. The...
For at least a decade, developing countries across Asia and Africa have worried about growing dependent on China. They’re concerned about debt...
The applause in Washington when Israeli and U.S. airstrikes killed Iran’s senior political and military leaders was understandable. It was also...
Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency have steadily intensified since 2021, the year former U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Adm. Philip...
Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency have steadily intensified since 2021, the year former U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Adm. Philip...
China has every reason to want the conflict between the U.S., Israel and Iran to end. The question is whether it’s prepared to do more than issue...
Two numbers — 123 and three — quickly became the focal point of reactions after the United Nations General Assembly voted to declare the...
AI is often framed as a driver of efficiency and progress. But it also presents a profound sustainability challenge. While high-performance computing...
Alfred Sloan’s "My Years with General Motors" (1963) is rightly regarded as one of the best books on business. It also contains one of the...
In the last year or so, health influencers — and a lot of women on social media — have talked up testosterone therapy as a kind of perimenopausal...
After the rain, the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah briefly turn green — an unlikely softness in an otherwise rugged landscape. I recently drove through...
In his ongoing frustration with the war against Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump continues to lash out at America’s European allies. He called NATO...
Wars are fought not only on battlefields but also on the field of cost calculations and public perceptions. A belligerent may accept the risk of...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been in office for six months — and her honeymoon period is beginning to fade. Still, she deserves high marks for...
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