China Proved Its Strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump Helped ( Economist) It was a good year for Xi Jinping.

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Trump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe (Majda Ruge, Foreign Policy) Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment. The EU is an obstacle—and the far right is an ally.

Israel Worries as Qatar Eyes F-35 Jets (Maya Carlin, National Interest) For more than half a century, the United States has worked to ensure Israel’s qualitative military edge in the Middle East. That ...

I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes (Ali Breland, The Atlantic) The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.

DHS begins collecting ten fingerprints from international visitors at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Washington Dulles airport began doing so in late November; eight additional U.S.

Nuclear energy financing must undergo a parallel shift alongside improvements in technology in order to witness the second nuclear renaissance. AI Regulatory Lessons from the Atomic Age (Emily de La ...

Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the market—and that’s not changing anytime soon. Even imagining a potential ...

Australia becomes the latest country to sign a deal with the U.S. president. African Non-State Actors Put Drones on the Attack (Rueben Dass, Lawfare) Groups are increasingly using weaponized drones ...

New regulations were supposed to ensure that homeowners in fire zones would have coverage available. But companies can still avoid serving many high-risk areas, a Times investigation found. ICE and ...

Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent. No operational necessity justified Hegseth’s de facto order to kill two survivors clinging to the ...

The U.S.-China rivalry is fueling a legal arms race. West Bank Violence Threatens Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan (John Haltiwanger, Foreign Policy) Rights groups say the Israeli government is complicit. How ...