The anxiety has been heightened by the opacity of the private-credit market, which has expanded dramatically over the past ...

O VER THE past decade commercial-satellite images have become the lifeblood of open-source intelligence (OSINT), allowing ...

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EUROPE HAS scarcely recovered from the effects of its last energy crisis, caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The American and Israeli assault on Iran now confronts it with a new one.

On Kalshi, a prediction market, the odds of the party winning back the House of Representatives in the midterm elections this November have risen from 81.5% before the war to 84.7% today. The odds of ...

Yet the strait has become the focus of the war. Iran has imposed a de facto closure by threatening commercial ships and attacking a few of them. That has blocked roughly 15% of the world’s oil supply, ...

Haiti's gangs face pushback from a new police chief and international forces, but most of Port-au-Prince remains under ...

Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents the—often spirited— debates that lead each week to a design seen by ...

Lawyers have ascended, in rank and wealth, above the accountants, consultants and investment bankers who comprise the rest of ...

At ground level, though, it becomes apparent that this is Bihar, India’s poorest state and home to some 130m people. It is the preponderance of bicycles that does it. They long ago receded from much ...

Qatar's LNG production halt after Iranian strikes threatens global energy supplies, with the country producing a fifth of ...

Theoretical physicists collaborate with OpenAI's artificial intelligence to solve complex calculations involving gluons and ...