geopolitics
Opponents of America’s entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
In the most extreme cases, spiraling prices can lead to a collapse in a currency’s value.
Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won’t be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
Society incorrectly blamed a “population bomb” for problems that had other causes. A wrong diagnosis produces ineffective solutions.
“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]
Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.
Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
It’s about 7.6 million times faster than what you probably have at home.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
In his new book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,” former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang explores how media narratives can warp public perception of political candidates.
If you see a political movement embodying all of these traits, watch out.
Solving the supply chain crisis before the global economy tanks is going to require many creative approaches. Flexport’s Ryan Petersen has one that just might work.
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
There has been a 600% increase in European gas prices so far in 2021.
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
Time and again, studies have found a connection between authoritarian ideals and meaning in life — a notion backed up by historical documents.
Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
Is it true that half of disaster relief is motivated politically rather than by need?
People who buy iPhones are not, it seems, masters of their own devices.
After the German election, will the nation continue to “muddle through” successfully enough to lead Europe?
Everybody wins, everybody loses, or something in between.
As Russia’s youth welcomed a new era of capitalism in the 1990s, their parents and grandparents clung to fleeting memories of Soviet life.