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Max and Maria spoke with Harley Balzer and Sergei Guriev about the recently released volume, Failure. Russia Under Putin.

On April 24, President Trump announced an executive order to pursue the exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals within the outer continental shelf as well as in areas beyond national ...

Introduction On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best ...

Since January 2025, a series of attacks have targeted Tesla facilities and vehicles across the United States, bringing renewed attention to a long-standing debate among policymakers, scholars, and law ...

“The U.S. possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications. Now the computing power this ...

The United States and Ukraine reached a landmark agreement to jointly invest in Ukraine's critical minerals and resources. This deal, the first of its kind, highlights minerals in President Trump’s ...

Anniversaries, even those as somber as today’s, offer a crucial opportunity for reflection. As we mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is essential to assess how ...

As the United States races to reduce its reliance on China for minerals vital for national, economic, and energy security, tariffs with Canada may drastically undermine these efforts. Canada is the ...

Taking Greenland through force or coercion would not just be a bad deal for the United States—it could become a legacy-defining unforced error for the Trump ...

Following Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1, defense analysts have expressed concerns about the U.S. use of about a dozen Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors. The debates ...

The United States once had big aspirations for the government of Xiomara Castro in Honduras. Elected on an anti-corruption platform and promising change, the Biden administration hoped for the ...