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Is Cuba reaching its breaking point after new US sanctions?

Politics TA | AP Insight - January 31, 2026.

Cubans are hustling to become more self-sufficient as the U.S. government tightens its economic noose over the communist-run island in a move experts say is...

Will Trump's risky economic policy pay off?

Economy Kenneth Rogoff - January 31, 2026.

If there is one song that captures President Donald Trump’s vision for the US economy in 2026, it is Buster Poindexter’s 1987 cover of Montserratian...

Why does monopolistic protectionism always lead to high prices?

Economy Emre Alkin - January 31, 2026.

Foreign friends reading these lines may already know this: Turkey was once a place where you could enjoy a reasonable quality of life at a...

Venezuela allowed privatization of the oil sector to attract investors

Energy TA | AP Insight - January 30, 2026.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed a law that opens the nation’s oil sector to privatization, reversing a tenet of the self-proclaimed socialist...

Can middle-powers be a pillar of world order?

Politics Anne-Marie Slaughter - January 30, 2026.

“Rupture” is a strong word, defined as “an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly or completely.” Yet it is the term that Canadian Prime Minister Mark...

The debt boomerang – how Africa began to finance China

Economy The Editorial Board - January 30, 2026.

Over two decades of China's presence in Africa, the perception of Beijing as a key financier of the continent's development took shape. The approach was presented...

Deepening Saudi-UAE rift heightens instability among their regional proxies

Middle East Sharmila Devi - January 30, 2026.

A growing rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen has left their proxies across the Horn of Africa and Red Sea...

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