One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained ...

Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese ...

In a war, length is far more important than ferocity. Trying to keep a war from escalating might seem like a prudent thing ...

Afghanistan is estimated to hold more than US$1 trillion in mineral resources. Rich stores of copper, lithium, gold, iron ore ...

Stripe Press was kind enough to send me several books it had published, and one of these was J. Storrs Hall’s "Where Is My ...

The US and Japan are racing to build a new global supply chain for critical minerals, but geopolitical disputes slow their ...

A few days ago, the Chinese government had the opportunity to reverse the current downturn in China-Japan relations, the ...

Most people around the world have probably come to know the American aircraft carrier in much the same way: through US Navy ...

One lesson from the history of the Soviet Union is that dictatorships can last a very long time even if their economic basis ...

The Pentagon has reportedly extended Middle East deployments of American troops, fighter squadrons, and warships into next ...

NEW YORK – America’s trade deficit just widened to US$88.6 billion, its largest since March 2025 — and the political reflex ...

Relations between London and Moscow reached another peak of tension in August over the UK’s support for Ukraine. The success ...