Global power & economic security
Trace the path from international decisions to the choices people make at home.
AI is carrying world trade. Who else gets a lift?
A stronger trade forecast is welcome news. But the boom in chips and servers raises a second question: how do the gains travel beyond the industries doing the heaviest lifting?
Economy / AnalysisThe diesel crunch reaches far beyond the pump
Emergency stocks can buy time in a fuel squeeze. They cannot remove every bottleneck between a barrel of oil, a working engine and the price of a delivered product.
Politics / AnalysisWhen cheap fuel collides with foreign policy
An announced diesel arrangement with Russia offers Washington a route towards fuel relief—and exposes the difficult bargain between domestic prices, sanctions and support for Ukraine.
Politics / FeatureA Nobel Prize for law in an age of force
Navi Pillay’s Peace Prize places international justice in the spotlight. Its significance lies not in pretending courts can stop conflict alone, but in asking what power should still have to answer for.
Politics / AnalysisThe ballot is only the beginning
Elections decide who takes office. The less visible test of a democracy is what happens to courts, scrutiny and the right to challenge power between one vote and the next.
Politics / ExplainerThe conflict that stays below the headlines
Europe’s renewed hybrid-threat measures expose a difficult problem: how to respond to hostile interference when responsibility is contested—and protect legitimate dissent at the same time.