Foreign governments trying to tip the scales of American elections is nothing new, but the brazenness with which Russia and Iran are meddling in the 2024 presidential ele...
If she wins, Kamala Harris will face one of the rarest tasks in American politics: the same-party presidential transition. Although it wouldn’t be as chaotic as the trans...
In a world increasingly marked by polarization and rising nationalism, the Paralympic Games stand as a vital symbol of the rules-based liberal international order.
Despit...
Thirty-two years ago, a tropical storm wandered over an area of superheated water and exploded into a monster Category 5 hurricane with 174 mph winds.
Compact and powerfu...
There are two radically different visions of our AI future, and they depend on the cost of energy.
In one scenario, low energy prices lead to a lot of slack. At the margi...
There’s no job on earth less attractive than being a head of state forced to decide between cutting a hostage deal with terrorists that risks encouraging repetition, or c...
The electoral victory Sunday, Sept. 1, by the Alternative for Germany in Thuringia, the first by a far-right party in a regional German election post-World War II, is ind...
There was a time when the subject of nuclear weapons was so consequential to international peace that it could bring even the most intense adversaries into the same room....
While the Olympics were created to showcase the best of humanity, tech giants including Google, Meta and Microsoft advertised a world where machines took home the gold.
C...
When it comes to measuring the impacts of the climate crisis, we tend to fall upon two simple metrics: human fatalities and economic losses. These data points are extreme...
