Tag: United States

For the last several nights, my sleep has been seriously disturbed by the loud chopping sounds of helicopters that have circled low before dawn in the skies of Manhattan’s Upper ...

Since at least the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, accelerated by the resurgence of Iran-backed proxies in the Middle East and shadowed by the prospect of conflict ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at pro-Palestinian protests at U.S. universities, extensive flooding in East Africa, and Russia vetoing a U.N. resolution on nuclear weapons in space. ...

On April 20, Republican Rep. Mike McCaul took to the House floor on Capitol Hill and delivered an ultimatum to his fractured party laced with U.S. history in World War ...

On the same day U.S. President Joe Biden hosted the first-ever United States-Japan-Philippines summit at the White House, a much less conspicuous meeting to strengthen the U.S. alliance network in ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at potential U.S. decision to cut off aid to an Israeli military unit, Germany’s arrest of three suspected spies for China, and ...

In 2015, the British economist Nicholas Stern argued that the reason for excessive carbon emissions was not just one market failure—the familiar fact that fossil fuel prices do not include ...

Matt Kroenig: Hi, Emma! Greetings from Singapore. I am here for a conference on weapons of mass destruction in the Indo-Pacific, so it has been pretty dark—with China’s massive nuclear ...

The Islamic State’s recent return to prominence with its bloody attack on a Moscow concert venue overshadowed a solemn and tragic anniversary of a different kind of terrorism. Five years ...

In the surreal two and a half hours between Israel’s announcement on April 13 that an Iranian attack was underway and the arrival of the first weapons, I, like many ...