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No one knows whether AI will trigger a white-collar jobpocalypse. The loudest warnings still come from people building and selling the technology,...
A recent case in Japan has sparked intense discussion about artificial intelligence. In late May, media reports revealed that the 18-year-old daughter...
No wonder Donald Trump swore at his supposed friend and ally Benjamin Netanyahu recently. Within days of that June 1 phone call, Israel and Iran were...
“As close as lips and teeth” is how Mao Zedong famously described China’s ties with North Korea. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to...
You may never have heard of Aki and Koichi, but this sartorial couple in their 70s from California are a hit on social media. They are part of a wave...
I’m a longtime fan of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian band whose thunderous performances set the standard for political activism in the...
On a spring evening in Budapest, I watched the Kodaly Choir of Debrecen close a program of Asian voices with a song from a place few in the hall could...
Catching a glimpse of Dario Amodei these days is like finding a rare butterfly. The chief executive officer of Anthropic PBC was scheduled to meet...
NEW DELHI – On his recent visit to India, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio predictably touted India as one of America’s “most important...
When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we’ve been used to seeing for more...
MADRID – The nuclear question has returned to the center of global politics. While the specter of nuclear proliferation never disappeared, it was...
South Korea’s recent diplomatic thaw with China is not a pivot toward Beijing — it is a hedge against a more volatile world. The warming of ties,...
Geopolitics is currently making it harder for India’s 1.4 billion people to cool off in the punishing summer heat. Things are about to get a whole...
The share of U.S. workers who worked primarily from home, or WFHers, last year was 13.3%, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau data,...
When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi argued before the country’s parliament last month that requiring candidates to disclose prior citizenship would...
BANGKOK – At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed America’s Asian allies to spend 3.5% of...
A decade after the Brexit vote, the finance industry at the heart of London is doing... well, fine actually. When Britain opted to quit the European...
HALO, which stands for heavy assets, low obsolescence, is the trade of the year. Global investors have been bidding up makers of everything, from cars...
Over the past decade, campus political activism in liberal-democratic nations has come under critical scrutiny for many perceived excesses: woke...
In South Korea, historic bonuses for chip-firm workers are reportedly leading to a surge in demand for luxury cars. In Japan, where companies in the...
By his own definition, Graham Platner is not working class. Although the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Maine is almost universally...
In mid-March, I wrote that Iran in 2026 is like Japan in 1944. Now, with the Strait of Hormuz still blockaded and ceasefire talks unresolved, the...
MARBURG, Germany – The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has revealed how instability can become a powerful political instrument. Leaders can exploit...
Just over a week ago, the question facing the American “intelligence community” — all of the assorted spies and spooks at 18 different agencies...
In October 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mamallapuram, a coastal town in southern India. Modi highlighted...
Pollution, like money, is fungible. Once you breathe carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it’s interchangeable with all the other CO2 on the planet,...
I’m perplexed and vexed. This is “a new Golden Age” for the Japan-U.S. relationship, yet in every conversation I had last week in Tokyo, concern...
A few weeks ago, an editor from China Daily, the English-language mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, reached out to me with a seemingly...
POTSDAM, Germany – As scientists, we had the uneasy privilege of witnessing China’s rise earlier than most. Long before a country’s regional or...
Carbon dioxide is plant food, so you might think pumping the atmosphere full of it would be better for plants. The trouble is that CO2 is also the...
KYIV – National resilience has long been defined by military strength and defense spending. But policymakers are starting to recognize that culture...
If you want a blueprint for how countries can survive this era of great power rivalry, look no further than Vietnam. A focus on economic growth and a...
Japan has long relied on innovation to beat the heat. From the invention of sensu fans that could be folded up into a kimono in the Heian era more...
When the Suez Canal closed in 1967 after war broke out between Egypt and Israel, 15 ships got trapped inside the waterway. They dropped anchor to wait...
LUCERNE, Switzerland – Pope Leo XIV has just issued his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” which states the Catholic Church’s position...
MADISON, Wisconsin – For several years now, a significant share of young Chinese people, disillusioned with their economic prospects, have embraced...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is slipping. Sort of. Because even though the president’s support among GOP voters has...
The world is still marveling at the stunning photos taken by America’s Artemis II astronauts during their 10-day mission around the moon. But the...
On May 2, demonstrators opposed to amending Japan’s “peace” Constitution gathered outside the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo....
In the U.S., the backlash to artificial intelligence seems to be scaling almost as fast as the technology itself. Japan offers a different case study....
After years of browbeating Tokyo to up its defense posture and criticizing its anemic domestic defense industry, U.S. bottlenecks are now impeding...
The rivalry for the money of choice in the 21st century is heating up. Now that the regulatory stalemate in the U.S. over whether exchanges should...
As Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives in Ottawa this week, Canada is attempting what Prime Minister Mark Carney has described as a “reset”...
On May 7, in a historic verdict, Peter Wai and Bill Yuen were found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service under the U.K. National...
Japan’s konbini are beloved — a lifeline for the country’s overworked parents and hungry salarymen as well as a must-see experience for...
A Dyson Sphere is a theoretical structure built around a star to tap all of its energy. It’s pure science fiction. But our Big Tech overlords seem...
So much has the world’s attention focused on Iran lately that it’s been easy to lose track of what’s going on in the much larger war in Ukraine....
To foreign audiences, Prime Minister Takaichi is one of the most recognizable Japanese leaders in recent memory. From hugging U.S. President Donald...
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping has revived a familiar debate: Would the United States...
Partisan gerrymandering is dominating the news, and as a scholar of constitutional law and a biographer of James Madison, who founded one of...
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