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The EU is offering billions to build AI gigafactories in order to close the gap with the US and China

EU TA | AP Insight - July 30, 2026.

The European Union is offering 10 billion euros ($11.4 billion) in funding for firms to erect seven AI gigafactories as it seeks to close the...

The latest wave of Trump’s tariffs continues to harm America's economy

Economy Joseph E. Stiglitz - July 30, 2026.

Here he goes again. US President Donald Trump is increasing and decreasing tariffs willy-nilly, violating international agreements that he himself signed and almost surely violating...

The US and Iran risk a long-term attritional impasse

Middle East Ferry Biedermann - July 30, 2026.

The US and Israel’s spectacular series of miscalculations in their confrontation with Iran has created a situation in which there is no clear route to...

By rejecting the ICC, the US leaves international law to others

Politics Eric Alter - July 29, 2026.

In 2023, US President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence agencies to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the International Criminal Court, with the goal...

Iraq is facing increased pressure from the US due to the actions of Iran-allied forces

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 29, 2026.

Strikes launched by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Iran-allied fighters in Iraq have put Iraq's government in a delicate position — and not for...

The pressure of the war economy is becoming unbearable for the Russian corporate sector

Russia Oleksandr Levchenko - July 29, 2026.

The prolonged war against Ukraine and the Kremlin's economic policy miscalculations have led to a sharp deterioration in the financial condition of Russia's corporate sector.  In...

UK’s Burnham inherits a less than special relationship with US ally

UK Harvey Morris - July 29, 2026.

First the good news. Relations between Andy Burnham and Donald Trump have made a positive start in what the new UK prime minister described as...

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