Industrial policy was supposed to be a relic. The consensus that formed after the Cold War held that governments were bad at picking winners, that market allocation of capital was more efficient than state direction, and that comparative advantage would distribute manufacturing…
The week produced one of the more paradoxical situations in recent military history: a ceasefire nominally in effect while both parties continued to…
Global oil prices rose significantly this week as the Strait of Hormuz situation deteriorated and the US-Iran conflict showed no signs of resolution…
Japan formally abandoned its longstanding ban on weapons exports this week, a significant departure from the pacifist posture that defined Japanese…
A new Eurostat forecast projects that Poland's population will fall by roughly 32 percent by the end of this century — from approximately 37.5…
Cuba confirmed this week that it held a meeting with senior US officials, the first such contact since 2016. The meeting was not announced in advance…
The debate about European strategic autonomy has been ongoing for thirty years and has not produced strategic autonomy. The gap between the declared…