FEBRUARY 4. 2026
Greater energy efficiency and load shifting could help meet rising electricity needs at a fraction of the cost of building new power plants.
The European Commission's "simplification" package is, in fact, a deregulatory intervention that weakens workers' data rights.
Blaming labour protections for factory closures is not industrial policy — it is avoidance dressed as reform.
FEBRUARY 3. 2026
U. S. ambitions in Latin America cast a shadow over the White House summit.
U. S. ambitions in Latin America cast a shadow over the White House summit.
How an ancient philosophy became a potent force in modern-day China.
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a practice by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
A shared worldview, some personal rapport, and not being a U. S. ally makes all the difference.
Donald Trump has restored his country’s traditionally tense relationship with its northern neighbor.
After a judge agreed to keep an ICE agent’s face out of the court record, a simple internet search revealed his name and location.
Countries with a critical niche may be best primed to endure great-power competition.
A new Kansas law lets those “aggrieved” by the presence of a trans person in a bathroom to file a civil suit for monetary damages.
Three factors shape when protests restrain democratic erosion—and when they don’t.
Renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act would protect U. S. jobs and economic power.
Japan’s five-week test of deep sea mining is a milestone — and test of how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy, and environmental risk.
A new book argues that "cultivated” and other alternative meats will increasingly challenge traditional ways of raising livestock.
Daniel Gros recommends targeted export tariffs, taxes on royalties, and the elimination of US Treasuries’ risk-free status.
Polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift. And now Britain’s water privatisation concept is being exported to Brazil.
FEBRUARY 2. 2026
New Delhi has vowed to stop purchasing Russian oil in exchange for reduced U. S. tariffs.