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The smartphone prompted a social revolution, fundamentally expanding the scope and speed of human communication. It is powered by electricity, operated by a human and made of rare earth elements. Although the smartphone’s integration into mankind’s daily lives has become an invaluable asset, it has also become a source of strategic leverage against global supply chains amid a trade war.
Over the last decade, Peru has been plunged into crisis: organized crime, corruption, protests, and the ensuing violent military repression plague the country. The situation has become so dire, that the country has gone through nine presidents in that time, with a tenth on the way. The factors behind Peru's crisis are multifaceted and complex, and the journey to unravel it all is as perilous as the Andes themselves.
China has historically provided a vast consumer market, a strong manufacturing base and the promise of long-term growth for multinational corporations. Today, that relationship could be in danger. For some companies, China remains a source of growth, innovation and opportunity. Yet that success often comes with trade-offs. The question is no longer simply whether China is a place to succeed. It is whether success there can be sustained, and more importantly, on whose terms.
Although international sports are often intended to be an escape from the harsh reality of the political state of the world, they commonly become pseudo-battlefields. Teams represent their governments and fight to establish dominance as the world watches. With the upcoming 2026 World Cup, it is worth examining how rising global tensions are played out by sports being utilized as stages of both diplomacy and conflict.
On February 5, New START, a bilateral treaty limiting the number of strategic nuclear warheads the United States and Russia could deploy, expired. Without this formal agreement, both nations are now free to deploy more strategic weapons, marking the end of decades of arms control. A world with larger nuclear deployments complicates arms control by normalizing nuclear weapons as practical tools of conflict and persuasion. Nuclear strategic stability now rests almost entirely on political will and trust that may be difficult to come by in an increasingly volatile and defensive security environment. Does the end of traditional arms control between these nations mean the end of nuclear strategic stability? And how will it affect conflict and innovation in the new global nuclear landscape?
While Morocco's contribution to the 2030 FIFA World Cup will feature the newly constructed largest stadium in the world, the country's recent renovations appear to be purely external. Construction continues while healthcare facilities crumble, citizens naming them “Death Hospitals.” Youth unemployment rises as higher education levels decrease, feeding civil unrest. 2025 protests in favor of reforms have resulted in hundreds of arrests and deadly crackdowns, while government officials shift blame and fire hospital directors, touting “major accomplishments” citizens fail to see.
Japan’s 2026 snap elections resulted in a historic victory for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP secured a supermajority of 316 seats in the House of Representatives, enabling them to push Sanae Takaichi’s hardline conservative agenda. Despite international concerns, the Japanese stock market, which has floundered since the advent of the Lost Decades, surged. With a streamlined legislative process, Japan now has its greatest opportunity to purge the lingering effects of the Lost Decades.
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Although leaders on both sides attempted to make it low-profile, the meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-Wen and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy still received considerable attention. On route to Guatemala and Belize, Tsai stopped in New York and Los Angeles to meet with the leaders of both U.S. parties as she made her seventh transit through the United States as Taiwan’s president.
Last month, TikTok CEO Shou Chew was barraged with questions from American lawmakers in a 5-hour-long Congressional hearing, amid a bipartisan call to ban the popular entertainment app entirely. In the U.S., it has always been widely condemned that China censors apps such as Youtube and Facebook. However, it seems that America is well on its way to doing the exact same thing, under the guise of privacy and content concerns.
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India, the fastest-growing major economy in the world, recently finalized “the mother of all deals” with the EU: a trade agreement that creates the largest free trade zone in the world. This isn’t a standalone phenomenon for India, but it is unprecedented given its history of protectionism. If India wants to complete its goal of being a developed nation by 2047 – part of its Viksit Bharat initiative – it needs to embrace free trade. In a trade landscape turned on its head by mercurial U.S. trade policy, India is in a prime position to assert itself as a leading global power.
Indonesia is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and waste management is one particular chokepoint for social and environmental health across the nation. Given Indonesia’s local situation, waste banks and other community-based solutions offer an optimistic initial solution to mismanagement.
National security policy often operates outside the realm of public opinion, and as such, can provide greater clarity on U.S. actions in Iran by focusing on the nation’s interests from an outcome-based, objective angle that ignores domestic turmoil, bureaucracy or politics. This lens only accounts for the U.S.’s best course of action as a singular entity pursuing its goals. In this account, it becomes clear that the administration disregards domestic dissent in pursuit of national security objectives in a utilitarian vacuum.
This week, the British public will be heading to the ballot box to cast their votes in the local council elections. In a usual year, they are uneventful occasions attended mainly by the elderly and those unhappy with the bin men. But this time, the results may well determine the future of the country. With support plummeting for the traditional two parties, public opinion has swung to the extremes, turning the race into a dirty-handed four way catfight with no clear lead for any one party. In such a time of uncertainty and possibility, it is always worth looking back and understanding what went wrong and where we might be going…
Brazil has become one of the most dangerous places in the world to defend the environment. Despite legal frameworks and international commitments, defenders remain vulnerable to ongoing violence. But there are nongovernmental organizations that have worked hard to fight for more protections and address ongoing threats.
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