The Hormuz Catastrophe: The Netanyahu and Trump Administrations Knew the Risks—and Escalated Anyway
By Dan Steinbock
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has produced precisely the kind of strategic blowback that earlier Israeli and American war-gaming had warned...
The Philippines’ Security Trap
By Dan Steinbock
The recent school shootings are a tip of an iceberg of a vast private-security industry, Filipinos recruited into foreign wars, expanding...
The Bargaining Table is Writing America’s Workplace AI Rules
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
A new report shows that union contracts are becoming one of the strongest practical safeguards American workers have against disruptive workplace...
The Ebola Escalation is a Global Health Emergency
By Dan Steinbock
After three months, the Ebola crisis in Central Africa has crossed a critical regional threshold. Concurrently, it reflects the emerging US/China...
How the US-EU Partnership is Fracturing
By Dan Steinbock
For China and the Global South, US-EU tensions are part of a broader struggle over selective globalization.
The US increasingly prioritizes technological...
AI Job Disruption is Moving From Forecasts to Hiring Plans
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
A survey of 933 U.S. business leaders found that 60% agree most white-collar jobs will be fully automated by AI within...
Why Most Organizations are Getting AI Adoption Wrong
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Most companies still talk about AI as if the main question is technical: Is the model accurate enough to trust? A...
The British Growth Model: Political Economy, Governance, and Stagnation
By Dr Kalim Siddiqui
Britain's polycrisis—fiscal fragility, decades of austerity policy, a cost-of-living crisis, stagnating living standards, and political instability—stems not from exogenous shocks but...
Autocratizing Democracies: A War Just For Power (Part 3 of 3)
By Joseph Mazur
Dealing with enemies from within
Some say that Donald Trump was sent from heaven but, if that’s true, is he a blessing or...
Agentic AI Will Test Every Healthcare Workflow
By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
The next healthcare AI fight will center on work, not words. Jeremy Hudgeons, a senior sales specialist at GDT, points to a...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
