geopolitics
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
Created in the 1880s, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan,” which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.
A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.
Although it’s often described as the Amazon of China, Alibaba has a radically different business model that does not rely on inventory management.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Nearshoring may be the manufacturing model of the future.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the “orbital perspective.”
Guess which country has 269% inflation.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Surely they can’t be worse…can they?
With economic turmoil looming, everyone wants a way to keep their funds safe. But is that really possible?
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Many have argued that morals are relative, but Russia’s war crimes reveal the hollowness of that belief. Morality is universal and objective.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn’t exactly representative.
The future of American jobs isn’t only services and tech.
There’s enough evidence to conclude president Bukele had no idea what he was doing.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
