List of United States articles
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Women wash ore in the artisanal copper-cobalt mine of Kamilombe, near the city of Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 20. Africa’s Critical Minerals Could Power America’s Green Energy Transition
Biden’s IRA is shutting African countries out of supply chains for critical minerals. Including them would be a strategic and diplomatic win.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump points to the audience as he arrives to speak at the Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington. Trump’s Trials Are America’s Stress Test
If the U.S. makes it through this crisis, it could end up stronger than ever.
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., in his office in Washington on Feb. 10. Ro Khanna: ‘De-Risking Is Consulting Gibberish’
Silicon Valley’s congressman on how to reset the U.S.-China relationship.
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A woman uses her phone near the offices of NSO Group in Herzliya, Israel, on Aug. 28, 2016. Biden Cracks Down on the Spyware Scourge
But Europe and Israel have yet to take surveillance abuses seriously.
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U.S. President Joe Biden looks at a quantum computer as he tours the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York. The United States’ Quantum Talent Shortage Is a National Security Vulnerability
Here’s how to change that.
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Cillian Murphy, wearing a hat and suit, faces toward the Trinity tower test site where the first atomic bomb was detonated as a truck drives by in a scene from Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer’s Long Shadow
Reads on the atomic bomb and its creator.
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Two Black Lives Matter protesters wearing T-shirts and surgical masks around their chins gather in London's Hyde Park in 2020. One holds a sign that says "Britain is racist!" Britain’s Racism Isn’t America’s
The United Kingdom needs to examine its own bigotries.
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U.S. lawmakers attend a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Congress Seeks to Tighten Rules on Foreign Lobbying
There’s bipartisan support—but taking aim at the wrong problem.
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A participant wearing a rainbow-colored wig holds up a sign reading, in English, “Queer rights are human rights” during a pride parade in Cyprus. Other participants mill about in the background against a sunny sky. Can the U.N. Protect Queer Rights?
The organization is struggling with a resurgence of global bigotry.
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The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Nov. 16, 2005. Hollywood Runs—and Ruins—U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. films entertain the world—and distort policy at home.
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University students display a flag of the Communist Party of China to mark the party's 100th anniversary during an opening ceremony of the new semester in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Sept. 10, 2021. Has China Peaked?
A debate on whether Beijing’s economic woes are temporary or terminal.
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Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer stand in front of an apocalyptic pink and orange clouded desert landscape in a photo illustration for the two movies. Barbie wears her iconic black-and-white-striped swimsuit and sunglasses, and Oppenheimer a period hat and suit with cigarette in hand. ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Have More in Common Than You Think
Both films attempt to atone for the complicated legacies of American icons. Only one succeeds.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks at a podium with the presidential seal at the White House Washington Tries to Add Some Teeth to Its Cyberdefenses
The Biden administration unveiled a road map to thwart Russia and China in cyberspace, but experts say gaps remain.
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Striking Hollywood writers hold signs while picketing in front of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The signs say: "Writers Guild on strike! DGA in solidarity" and "Pay the writers, you AI-holes!" and "Just look at what happened to the music industry." Adam Tooze: The Shifting Economics of Hollywood
Changes in technology and antitrust laws are driving the strike by writers and actors.
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A U.S. flag waves over the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on May 8. America’s Love of Sanctions Will Be Its Downfall
Measures intended to punish autocrats are eroding the very Western order they were meant to preserve.