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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...
Late last year, the administration of Donald Trump released the National Security Strategy 2025, a document that carries a distinctly manifesto-like...
The world witnessed the preamble to a changing of the guard in space as four astronauts climbed aboard the Orion spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin...
The fighting in the Middle East has the world on tenterhooks, but the economic shocks hitting Asia are so alarming that usually guarded regional...
There is a Japanese proverb: Tsuki to suppon (The Moon and the Turtle). Both are round, but one illuminates the world while the other crawls in the...
If the rise of precautionary full-body scans, experimental anti-aging treatments and trendy supplements tells us anything, it’s that we’re...
Late last year, the administration of Donald Trump released the National Security Strategy 2025, a document that carries a distinctly manifesto-like...
Artificial intelligence doesn’t only threaten to put herds of software businesses out to pasture. Anthropic PBC’s schooling of its Claude models...
Covered in a layer of dust, pencils and books lie scattered across the small desks of Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma. One of these seats once...
A platform that so often seems to promote division is bringing people together for a change — and Americans are learning the joy of one of the last...
The highest U.S. tariffs in almost a century have had a muted impact so far on global growth, but Asian policymakers aren’t lulled by the calm....
With the Iran war threatening supplies of critical, energy-intensive materials, one might assume the U.S. government was prepared for this risk and...
Since taking office, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has placed investment in science and technology at the center of Japan’s economic and security...
If you could safely implant a chip in your brain to enhance your intelligence, would you? Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful technologists want...
War is always a gamble. That is true even when leaders call it something else, like “special military operation” (Russian President Vladimir...
For Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the challenge of dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump is not about language...
Last September’s mob rampages in Nepal did more than torch buildings; they incinerated public trust in the state itself. Parliament, the Supreme...
Sunday, March 1, 2026. The daily bulletin from Ukraine: A drone strikes a residential building in Sumy, shattering more than 10 windows. A man is...
The two main drivers of U.S. economic growth right now — artificial intelligence and an aging population — are combining to make health care the...
If during his last days American biologist Paul Ehrlich had followed events in Singapore, he would have heard something remarkable. Fertility fell to...
Amid the chaos from the outbreak of the war in Iran, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet approved a bill on March 13 to establish the National...
In public policy, well-meaning but complicated ideas are often undone by a catchy name. The U.K. had its "bedroom tax,” the U.S. its periodic...