FEBRUARY 3. 2026
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.
Trump announced the deal in a social media post on Monday.
“Here we are once again, thinking that business can transform political relationships, ” said one formerly Moscow-based risk analyst.
And here’s how to make U. S. -European energy ties even more resilient.
“This is what it sounds like…” Readers of a certain generation will perhaps automatically complete this phrase by saying “when doves cry.
How Milan Cortina became the Winter Games nobody wanted to fight about.