Chevron's Venezuela Expansion Puts a Sanctioned Market Back in Play
The oil major is expanding operations after Washington's agreement with Caracas, testing whether reserves that size can be brought back to production.
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The AI Stack Has Consolidated Around a Handful of Suppliers
When Apple rents compute from Google to run Siri on Nvidia silicon, the question of who controls the layer everyone depends on stops being theoretical.
Latin America's Institutional Conflicts Are Wearing Through
Cartel politics in Mexico, border violence in Colombia and court battles in Brazil are separate problems with one shared feature: the patience holding them in place is running out.
The Autumn Exhibition Season Runs From Duchamp to Quilts
Philadelphia takes Duchamp, Boston hosts pharaohs and Washington shows quilts, while the LA Ballet and Philharmonic premiere a work at the Hollywood Bowl.
Four Elections in Ten Weeks Will Reset a Large Share of World Politics
Russia votes for its Duma before 20 September, Israel and Brazil go to the polls in October and the United States holds midterms on 3 November.
Nagoya Readies for the Asian Games as 50 Athletics Medals Go on the Line
Japan hosts the 2026 Asian Games from late September, with athletics spread across two Nagoya venues and India defending its kabaddi titles.
Mars Had Magmatic Systems Thought to Require Plate Tectonics
Evidence from deep beneath the Martian surface points to enormous magmatic structures that terrestrial geology associates with a process Mars never had.
Africa's Growth Story Runs Ahead of Its Financing
Strong quarters in Nigeria and a turnaround at Eskom point one way; borrowing costs and thin capital markets point another. The gap between them is the continent's central economic question.