China Started Separating Its Economy from the West Years Ago (Keith Bradsher, New York Times) Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized ...

The Unitary Artificial Executive (Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Lawfare) Previous expansions of presidential power were still constrained by human limitations. Artificial intelligence eliminates those ...

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling (Ali Breland, The Atlantic) The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

Will Trump’s Critical Minerals Blitz Pay Off? (Christina Lu, Foreign Policy) The U.S. president has been on a mission to secure new supply chains—and counter China’s grip. Strongmen in Politics and ...

Azruddin Mohamed’s case is significant: it illustrates how business, political ambition, resource-exports, and cross-border law-enforcement intersect in a small, oil-and-gold-rich country like Guyana, ...

What Will It Cost to Make Vladimir Putin Stop? ( Economis t) Europe must offer Ukraine a big enough financial package to deter the Kremlin. A bloody Police Raid in Rio Was the Deadliest in Brazil’s ...

A Ukraine-Baltics Security Pact (Fredrik Wesslau, Foreign Policy) To deter Russia, Europe needs to bring Ukraine into its security architecture. China’s Global Initiatives Are Worth Taking Seriously ...

Why Rare Earths Are About to Cost a Lot More (Patrick Schröder, Foreign Policy) Contrary to Trump’s claim, diversifying the supply chain won’t drive down prices.

The Countries Courting Trump with Critical Minerals (Rishi Iyengar, Foreign Policy) From Japan to Pakistan, the deals keep coming. Three Key Questions About Trump’s War Against Drug Boats (John ...

A Texas lawmaker introduced legislation to reform the H-2A visa program for agricultural workers. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) introduced the Bracero Program 2.0 Act, a bill to make wage ...

A Solution to the CIA ’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years (Humberto Basilio edited by Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American) After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the ...

It’s (Still) Henry Kissinger’s World (Julian E. Zelizer, Foreign Policy) A new documentary argues Nixon’s secretary of state learned the wrong lessons from his experiences with Nazi Germany.