The Weekend Intelligence: How to prepare for an invasion
Just one generation after they gained independence, people in the Baltic States are watching the threat from the Kremlin creep closer and closer. In L...
Bot the difference: AI’s absence in economic data
For all the promise of transformation that artificial intelligence offers, a close look at macroeconomic data shows little change. Sit tight. A brutal...
Poised and confused: the will-he-won’t-he of Iran strikes
As a military build-up continues in the Middle East, President Donald Trump’s messaging remains ambiguous. What could, at this stage, head off conflic...
Chapo, Mayo, Mencho: another Mexican kingpin falls
The targeting of “El Mencho”, the leader of one of the country’s two biggest gangs, has resulted in a predictable spate of violence—more of which is v...
A world-changing war: four years in Ukraine
On the fourth anniversary of a war that many predicted would last mere days, much has changed—even beyond the unthinkable misery in Ukraine itself. Al...
When the levy brakes: Trump’s tariffs struck down
The smackdown by America’s Supreme Court was resounding: the bulk of Donald Trump’s tariffs were instituted illegally. He will try to rebuild his tari...
The arrest is history: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
The detainment of King Charles’s brother is almost without precedent in Britain’s long royal history. He denies wrongdoing, but damage to “The Firm” i...
The splitting image: Yoon verdict will deepen divisions
Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s ex-president, has been handed a life sentence for insurrection. That is by no means the end of the story of division in t...
The Robin Hood state: taxes are getting more progressive
Income inequality abounds and today’s rich are staggeringly rich, implying that tax regimes are giving the wealthy more and more of a pass. Our dig in...
Ice, ice, maybe: should the Arctic be refrozen?
Many scientists are considering the notion of actively cooling the region that is warming fastest. We examine the merits and the risks—both environmen...