JOURNALISM
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.
Henry Kissinger at 100: what he can tell us about the world
Political fashions come and go. But his biographer says we should still listen to a statesman who’s so prescient on geopolitics
Trump’s second act: he can still win, in spite of everything
The more I think about it, the more I think the Joe Biden presidency is Act II – and Donald Trump is not the last tycoon. He’s Act III.
The Dollar’s Demise May Come Gradually, But Not Suddenly
Rumors of the death of the US currency are as exaggerated as they are frequently repeated.