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People might call this feeling “deja vu.” In the U.S. midterm elections Tuesday, James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and former middle...
Even before election night had ended Tuesday, a new political reality was settling in across America. The 2026 midterm elections had become a...
Stand on a clear day atop Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands hotel and you can see the city-state’s promise and peril in a single glance. In the...
Last week, Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, revealed that it had been robbed of $6.36 billion, the largest hack in history. North Korea...
The Iran war has triggered the largest energy crisis in history, or so the conventional wisdom says. Epochal stuff — but only half-true, because oil...
For generations of fans, prolific actor Patrick Stewart had become inseparable from the characters he played. So when news came that he died on...
As the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference approaches in Shenzhen, China, this month, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces mounting...
NAIROBI – A catastrophic threat is exploding in the heart of Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently battling the deadliest,...
The latest way to sell artificial intelligence is with a high-tech version of the promise that corporate America last bought from Six Sigma. Earlier...
Artificial intelligence has become a central arena of U.S.-China competition, spanning semiconductors, energy, communications and manufacturing....
Maria Corina Machado’s return to Venezuela has some of the same sweep and drama of Simon Bolivar’s return more than two centuries ago. But if she...
PARIS – Given current AI capabilities, does it matter who conducts scientific research? The intuitive response is that a fact is a fact, regardless...
Trust on the internet is supposed to be one of the marvels of modern cryptography. A malicious website may try to impersonate your bank or email...
For reasons that could range from good to atrocious, U.S. President Donald Trump wants a three-way summit with his Russian and Chinese counterparts...
If sharing is caring, one part of Tokyo just doesn’t care anymore. Shinjuku is moving to restrict minpaku, the practice of letting out apartments...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – Interdependence may have been one of the key themes going into this year’s annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election is a blow to Donald Trump’s plan for the Western...
Among the nearly 100 pages of risk factors outlined in Anthropic PBC’s landmark initial public offering are the catastrophic threats to humanity...
Recent books and studies have begun to highlight the risks that AI poses to children. This is a good thing. Maybe we’re collectively realizing that...
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi suggested it would be foolish not to follow Finland and allow nuclear weapons to be brought into, transported...
China’s rare-earth dominance reveals the strengths and vulnerabilities of its distinctive political economy — and offers lessons for competitors...
The Trump administration’s decision to impose sanctions not only on individual International Criminal Court officials but also on the ICC itself has...
China’s top military command has been almost emptied out. Of the seven members chosen for the Central Military Commission in 2022, only Xi Jinping...
Banks found it relatively easy to fend off the crypto bros. Artificial intelligence agents may prove a lot harder to tame. This time last year,...
Last week, finance ministers and senior officials from across the region gathered in Hong Kong for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Finance...
Boeing’s Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg must be pinching himself. In the span of just a few days, the company’s beleaguered Starliner...
Kim Jong Un might be the world’s most in-demand leader. U.S. President Donald Trump wants to meet him during a visit to Asia next month. So, too,...
France is in a financial crisis. That much is clear. What isn’t so clear is exactly why. This seems silly even to ask. The recent destruction and...
NEW DELHI – For decades, South Asia was locked in a perpetual cycle of conflict management: Brief military clashes between India and Pakistan would...
The most bothersome aspect of the warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity is that there are few details about how a rogue...
BUENOS AIRES – Nearly three years after Javier Milei became Argentina’s president, the chainsaw-wielding free-marketeer has established himself as...
In June, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a long-term economic development plan calling for more than ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) in public...
It is a tragedy for Israelis and Palestinians alike that the state of Israel happens to be home to two extraordinarily charismatic populist...
Doomsday predictions of artificial intelligence causing massive white-collar job losses haven’t come to pass. At least not yet. There is, however,...
France is still cleaning up after demonstrations on Oct. 16 that escalated into three days of rioting and looting, damaging more than 3,000...
Despite everything that has been thrown at the global economy, it remains remarkably hardy. The Iran war is extracting a modest toll, higher interest...
Australia has abundant energy resources, yet its rush to meet emissions targets is proving costly, made worse by delays in delivering replacement...
Step away from the minute-by-minute news cycle for a moment and consider what two of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council...
Taiwan has long been preparing for the specter of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait, with much attention given to the ability of its armed forces to...
Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris recently will have sensed the “shame and anger” described by President Emmanuel Macron following the...
Global debt crises follow a painful and familiar template. A rise in the cost of money reveals whose house is in order and who has been cutting...
For a leader often accused of dodging the press, there’s one ironic thing about Sanae Takaichi: She’s front-page material. Since becoming...
MELBOURNE – “Americanism, not effective altruism.” That’s a new slogan launched on X by the U.S. Department of “War,” the words running...
Pop quiz. How big is the global rare-earths market? For all the hullaballoo, handwringing and hyperventilating, the market this year is reckoned to...
Mohammed bin Salman has led Saudi Arabia for about a decade, but the next few months will be his greatest challenge yet. It was as defense minister...
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – On a recent visit to Sapporo, the city on Japan’s northern island where my parents came from, my wife and I found gentle...
BERLIN – During his recent visit to Washington, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced that China would send a breeding pair of giant pandas to Zoo...
Japan’s Immigration Services Agency on Oct. 1 revised its guidelines for permanent residency, introducing Japanese-language proficiency as an...
The last 75 years have brought the greatest improvement of human welfare in history. But over the past decade, much of that progress has stalled. This...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is again in a throwdown with the president of the United States, this time over his refusal to obey a White House edict to stop...
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