JOURNALISM
The cold war holds lessons for America’s rivalry with China, say Condoleezza Rice and Niall Ferguson
Military strength matters, as do allies, but nothing is inevitable
We Need AI Arms Control to Keep the New Cold War From Turning Hot
A new book by Mustafa Suleyman, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, highlights the pitfalls facing the world as the US and China vie for supremacy in a technology as potentially dangerous as nuclear fission.
The US Economy’s Not a Plane and It Won’t Land Gently
After big fiscal and monetary shocks, history shows that controlling inflation is rarely a painless process.
The Death of Summer
The baby boomer dream of tanning on the beach is fading as temperatures rise. We are going to have to reinvent July and August.
Biden Says Democracy Is Winning. It's Not That Simple.
The strategy of aligning democracies against autocracies could have an American Achilles’ heel.
Russia’s Farcical Mutiny Is Deadly Serious for China and Iran
Today’s geopolitics and economics have more in common with the 17th century than the 20th. Is that a greater threat to the democracies or the autocracies?
America Still Leads the World, But Its Allies Are Uneasy
In the global struggle between the Eurasian “Heartland” and the US-led "Rimland," there's trouble ahead.
China’s Auto Export Wave Echoes Japan's in the ’70s
Will electric vehicles change the world as much as railroads and internal-combustion engines did in centuries past.
When You're in a Cold War, Play for Time
“De-risking” is Washington's new word for detente. It's the right strategy as China's economy slows and its social problems grow.