Why Taiwan Sits at the Center of the U.S.–China Relationship

A disruption in the Taiwan Strait would not stay in the Taiwan Strait. It could test the limits of U.S. policy, unsettle American allies, interrupt trade routes, and expose how much of the world’s advanced computing depends on production cl…

The Epstein Files: What Do the Documents Actually Tell Us?

The first thing to know about the Epstein files is that they are not one file, and they are not a verified list of perpetrators. They are a sprawling collection of records from criminal investigations, court proceedings, custody reviews, an…

The U.S. and China Are Talking Again. What Actually Changed?

In September, presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met at the White House amid ceremonial pageantry and the familiar list of hard questions: tariffs, chips, rare-earth minerals, Taiwan and artificial intelligence. The clearest result was…

Why Japan Matters More Than Most People Realize

When people talk about a crisis around Taiwan, the focus tends to land on Taiwan itself, China, and Washington. But the map tells a wider story. Japan’s southwestern islands sit near Taiwan and the East China Sea; U.S. forces operate from b…

Why China Wants Control of More of the Technology Supply Chain

When China tightened controls on rare earth exports in April 2025, the consequences did not stay inside China. Automakers and other manufacturers abroad scrambled to secure magnets, and some production lines faced shortages. The episode exp…

The Chip War Isn't Really About Chips

A chip smaller than a fingernail can hold up a car, a data center, or a weapons system. That sounds like a contradiction: how can something so tiny matter so much? Because the chip is only the visible end of a production system that spans d…

What Happens If the World Splits Into Two Technology Systems?

A phone, car or AI service can look like one product. Underneath it may depend on chip designs from one country, manufacturing tools from another, fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, minerals processed elsewhere, and software distributed ar…

Why Russia and North Korea Are Getting Closer

When Vladimir Putin arrived in Pyongyang in June 2024, he and Kim Jong Un signed a treaty that promised more than friendly declarations. It bound their governments to military and other assistance if either were subjected to armed invasion,…

Putin, Russia and the New Network Around North Korea

The train is the telling detail. North Korean ammunition leaves the port of Rajin, crosses the short border into Russia, then travels by rail toward depots nearer the war in Ukraine. A shipment that begins on one isolated peninsula becomes…

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The Physical Internet: What Exists Behind the Cloud

The internet feels weightless. You open an app. A page loads.

Why Putin Still Has Leverage After Four Years of War

The battlefield is only one source of power. Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the easiest mistakes to make is to measure Vladimir Putin’s leverage by territory alone. How many kilometers has Russia captured?

The New Geography of Computing

For most of the internet era, computing felt almost locationless. You could build a company in Lagos, host its application in Virginia, serve customers in London and have engineers working from Nairobi. The software did not care about borders.

Why AI Needs More Than Better Models

There is a seductive idea in AI: Build a smarter model and everything follows. But intelligence doesn't exist in isolation.

The Race to Understand Aging

For most of human history, aging was treated as something that simply happened. You were born. You grew.

The Startup Ideas Hiding Inside Broken Infrastructure

When people search for startup ideas, they usually look at screens. Apps. Websites.

What Happens When Biology Becomes Programmable?

For most of human history, biology was something we could observe. We could breed plants. We could selectively breed animals.

What Actually Makes an Asset Valuable?

A building can be worth millions. A piece of land next to it can be worth even more. A company with no profits can be worth billions.

The New Race for Space

For decades, space looked like the domain of governments. The United States. Russia.

Stop Looking for Ideas. Look for Problems.

Entrepreneurship has developed an obsession with ideas. People ask: “What business should I start?”

Russia's Shadow Fleet: How Oil Keeps Moving Around Sanctions

The tanker doesn't look Russian. That's the point. It may fly the flag of one country.

What We Still Don't Understand About the Brain

We have mapped neurons. We can record electrical activity. We can watch parts of the brain activate while people see, speak, remember, decide and sleep.

What Happens When Intelligence Becomes Cheap?

Imagine a world where intelligence is no longer expensive. You can have an AI researcher. An AI lawyer.

Who Actually Makes Money When AI Becomes Cheaper?

This is one of the most important questions in the AI economy. Suppose AI inference becomes dramatically cheaper. Who wins?