JOURNALISM
The US and China Are Waging a Cold War That Is Truly MAD
A conflict between the two superpowers would trigger mutually assured financial destruction.
Condoleezza Rice: Is America heading for a fall? No, we’re doing OK
The former US secretary of state insists to Niall Ferguson that the US isn’t going to give up on Ukraine, won’t plunge into civil war — and is a beacon of racial harmony
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.