The world’s most important economic arteries are narrowing—and fast. At the center is the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran, where President Donald Trump has embraced a strategy that goes far beyond conventional warfare. It is a strategy built on choke points, strategic geographic and economic bottlenecks that
The world is watching the Strait of Hormuz for oil. It may soon realize it should have been watching it for food. As tensions escalate between the United States, Israel, and Iran, the narrow maritime corridor—long viewed as the world’s most critical energy chokepoint—is emerging as something more consequential: a
WASHINGTON — A little-known federal panel with the power to override the United States’ most powerful environmental law has been revived for the first time in decades—and its decision could determine the fate of one of the rarest species on Earth. This week, under the Donald Trump administration, the Endangered
WASHINGTON — The global energy system, already strained by escalating conflict in the Middle East, is now colliding with a political rupture among Western allies that could redefine the rules of cooperation in times of crisis. In a series of extraordinary posts on Truth Social, Donald Trump urged countries facing
The global race to finance climate resilience took a decisive turn this week as the Green Climate Fund approved $440 million for a new wave of projects across Africa—an investment that signals both urgency and momentum in the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions. Announced following the Fund’s latest board meeting, the
A quiet but consequential report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is reframing one of the defining questions of our time: in a world flooded with data, who has the capacity to measure reality—and who gets left behind? The newly released statistical roadmap for 2026 from the
YAOUNDÉ — The future of global digital trade is no longer a quiet technical debate. It has become a live fault line in the global economy. At the center is a rule most people have never heard of: a decades-old agreement preventing countries from imposing tariffs on digital transmissions. For
War, Rewritten for the Internet As the conflict with Iran escalates, a clearer picture is emerging of what may define this war in the long term: not just missiles and maritime chokepoints, but memes, satire, and algorithmic storytelling. New reporting underscores that this is no sideshow. It is a deliberate,
By any conventional measure, the war now unfolding around Iran is an energy crisis. Oil prices are surging. Supply chains are breaking. Governments are scrambling. But beneath the surface, something more consequential is taking shape. This is not just a war over energy. It is a war that is accelerating—and
Denmark has entered a period of political uncertainty after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen resigned following an inconclusive general election that delivered a sharp rebuke to her governing coalition and underscored shifting dynamics across Europe. A Victory Without Power Frederiksen’s Social Democrats emerged as the largest party, but the result fell
