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For What AI Could Do to Democracies, Look to the Petrostates
Societies will become richer, but history suggests that wealth may not be equally distributed.
‘Everything Depends on Our Attitudes’
Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO’s future.
Giorgia Meloni’s Populist Formula Failed
The Italian prime minister hasn’t convincingly delivered the renewal she once promised.
High-Rises Amid the Rubble in Syria
Who is Sharaa’s investment campaign really for?
Asia-Pacific
India Rethinks Energy Security Amid War
China
Japan and China Are Edging Dangerously Close to Conflict 
Europe
Trump’s War Is Damaging U.S. Arms Exports to Allies
Middle East & Africa
Can South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Negotiator Chart a Smooth Course in the U.S.?
Americas
What Congress Could Do to Stop the War
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Three Scenarios for a Post-Trump World
Ten years hence, the world will look very different.
Electrostates vs. Petrostates
China is building a new green bloc, while the United States is doubling down on oil.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raises a hand to accentuate a point as he addresses House lawmakers in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill. -
A policeman passes a doll symbolizing Ukrainian oligarch set by artists opposite the signboard of a district administration during the rally in Kiev, 12 July, 2007. -
A Greek-flagged crude oil tanker seen off the coast of the Syrian Baniyas port refinery, along the Mediterranean Sea. -
The Ras Laffan facility, the principal site for Qatari production of liquefied natural gas, north of Doha on Feb. 6, 2017.
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A photo illustration shows President Trump with joke glasses on his face Hoaxes Keep Escaping Containment
A delusional U.S. president is helping thin the line between fiction and reality.
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A group of people, some wearing face masks, sit in a darkened room facing a large floor-to-ceiling projection of a polar bear standing on an ice floe in an Arctic landscape. -
The shells of midrise residential buildings covered in scaffolding rise up against a clear blue sky. In the foreground are colorful tents and booths of vendors lining a street, where cars and vans pass by. -
An illustration shows three people in a small wooden boat on a turbulent sea, facing a massive whale that is partially transparent, revealing its skeleton. One person in the boat holds an oar, another holds a harpoon, and a third watches the whale with a hand on their head.
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Donald Trump is sett through an opening as he sits at a desk. Trump’s Foreign-Policy Shifts
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
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An illustration of a large bald eagle perched atop small shipping containers with the flag of Venezuela draped over them, surrounded by oil barrels, soldiers, a fighter jet, a warship, and an oil rig. They are set against an icy landscape and a blue, cloudy sky. -
A military vehicle flies a U.S. flag from a hill overlooking a tall border fence with brush in the foreground.
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An photo collage illustration shows Donald Trump pointing toward buildings with case falling around them. Semiconductor chips also make up the scene. Red bars overlay the cream-colored background behind the photos. -
A picture taken in Goma, on July 25, 2022 shows fire set by protesters burning in front of United Nations Mission for the Stabilisation of Congo (MONUSCO) Headquarters. -
A photo collage illustration shows the back of President Donald Trump in front of three track hurdles. Behind the hurdles are a stack of shipping containers, soccer stadiums and a passport, and a voter in a U.S.-flagged voting booth.
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An up-close portion of the Riverwalk apartment building is pictured as gray clouds loom to the left. Did London’s Dirty Money Really Kill a Teenage Fantasist?
Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” is a mystery that turns into a tragedy.
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