Edit & Opinions
After Trump’s Tariff Threat, Is a China Currency War Next?
Allowing China’s currency to fall could endanger the country’s economy. Confronting a weaker yuan, Chinese companies and affluent families might rush...
How Democrats Lost Their Base and Their Message
After three Trump elections, almost every traditional Democratic constituency has swung to the right.
Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative AI
The three commercials, which pay tribute to the company’s beloved “Holidays Are Coming” campaign from 1995, feature cherry-red Coca-Cola trucks...
Editorial: Deafening diplomatic silence
Perhaps anticipating the demand for a parliamentary debate, the Prime Minister used his party’s landslide victory in the Maharashtra election as a...
Durable Designs: Hundreds more Nazca lines emerge in Peru’s desert
The vast incisions were brought to the world’s attention in the mid-1920s by a Peruvian scientist who spotted them while hiking through the Nazca...
Reproductive Realities: Italy’s ban on global surrogacy policy play
The language evokes the wording of the Italian criminal code for crimes considered so serious that they contravene “universal values”. The wording...
Grand Governance: Post-Cold War era over but democracy will thrive
The weirder, stranger future that we’re entering still looks like a democratic future, with close contests for power, notwithstanding the widening...
Editorial: Blowin’ in the wind
While the impressive numbers toted up by the BJP have immediate import to Maharashtra politics, they contain several pointers to the nation at large.