As the growth of China’s economy slows, politicians in the West are increasingly concerned that Beijing will lash out to deflect domestic attention from its internal problems. In August 2023, for ...
China is betting big on military artificial intelligence. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made the technology a strategic priority, and the People’s Liberation Army is pouring resources into the ...
In Syria today, nearly everyone seems to be struggling. People of all classes and backgrounds can barely afford food, rent, utilities—the basics of a dignified life. The country is attempting to leave ...
In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons.
The Trump administration approached its summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in October 2025 projecting confidence, asserting that it held leverage over China as the trade deficit country in the ...
The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate deep geopolitical tensions, devastating humanitarian ...
The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate deep geopolitical tensions, devastating humanitarian ...
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stunning indictment of the state of global health security. The epidemic should have been containable; few threats are as familiar to ...
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It is all that remains of the Superior Institute of Industrial Design—a stately building that in its 166 years housed a Spanish officers’ club, U.S. occupation forces after 1898, Cuba’s health ...
Attrition is the defining feature of today’s conflicts. The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have become grinding contests over which side can exhaust the other’s military capacity, economic ...
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