Trouble in the East
What’s wrong with China’s economy? Victor Shih on the causes, effects, and global reverberations of a big slowdown in the world’s biggest country.
Tariff men
What’s driving America’s new approach to international trade? Katheryn Russ on jobs, national security, and climate change.
Weather eye
Why are most countries not taking sides in the Ukraine war? Richard Gowan on history, geography, and non-Western strategies for a changing global order.
Next generation
What’s behind the accelerating shift of younger Americans toward the Democratic Party? David A. Hopkins on the far-reaching consequences of a widening generational divide.
First contact
Why is the U.S. suddenly reaching out to China? Eyck Freymann on the motivations and challenges for cooling things down in Washington and Beijing.
Last man standing
Why is democracy struggling so much around the world? Francis Fukuyama on the recent history and unwritten future of the open society.
‘The regime is dead’
What’s happening in Iran—and what are the implications across the Middle East? Kim Ghattas on the long-term prospects for autocratic rule and democratic resistance.
Living in a wartime economy
What’s the war doing to Russia’s economy? Sergei Guriev on the impact of sanctions on everyday life, Putin's war machine, and the stability of his regime.
Inside men
What do Russia’s oligarchs have to do with the war in Ukraine? Miranda Patrucić on the global consequences of grand corruption.
Follow your money
Why is so much “socially responsible” investment going to autocratic countries? Marcos Buscaglia on one of the financial world’s big blind spots.
