Category: World
World Cup Preparation Scores a Goal against the Environment
The construction of an elevated pedestrian bridge connecting central and southern Mexico City –one of roughly 2,000 urban works tied to the 2026…
How the G7 Can Reset Global Finance
When G7 leaders arrive in Evian-les-Bains this month, France will host more than another summit. It will host a test of whether rich-country…
Chatbots & AI Companions: From Science Fiction to Everyday Reality
AI chatbots and AI companions designed to simulate human-like conversation and provide relationships and companionship through generative artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly evolved…
Erdoğan’s Race to Avoid Orbán’s Fate
When Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost by a landslide to a unified opposition in April, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was watching….
Nuclear Nonproliferation Outcomes Stall in Backdrop of Geopolitical Strife
On principle, the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons is an issue that unites the international community. But for a select few states, these principles…
The End of the Gulf Model?
The German government, along with a number of other countries, are currently organising flights to evacuate travellers and influencers stranded in the Gulf…
The Taiwan Lobby moves to put a full court press on Trump
Perhaps fearful of abandonment, or of being treated as a mere “bargaining chip” in negotiations with Beijing, Taiwan has worked diligently to ingratiate…
The Kushner-Israel nexus behind the Albania ‘flamingo revolution’
Albania, a small Balkan nation on the Adriatic coast, seldom makes headlines. But protesters waving pink flamingo cutouts on an Albanian island the…
In the steel cage: Understanding that UFC is Trump’s happy place
There’s a lot of America happening this weekend. For good or ill.Sunday June 14 is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the Stars…
Lawmakers target private equity’s growing chokehold on arms industry
On Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would scrutinize private equity’s growing influence over the defense industry. “For too long we’ve let private…
