The Middle East crisis will have severe repercussions for Israel, its neighbors, and U.S. foreign policy. Israel’s response to Hamas’s attacks is expected to continue to provoke anger across the Middle East, potentially fueling jihadist movements and escalating conflicts with other groups, contributing to regional …
Antonio Navalón If When the Berlin Wall fell, the book that best reflected this episode of history was Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History and the Last Man”. After the Hamas attack on Israel that began on October 7, the title that best defines this …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting was held last week in an atmosphere of global realignments. The leaders’ speeches (3 women among men) from multiple countries expressed opinions on common issues: the war in Ukraine, the global financial system, poverty, the …
What Powered the World in 2022? This was originally posted on Elements. In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated around the world, an increase of 2.3% from the previous year. In this visualization, we look at data from the latest Statistical Review of World …
Luis Rubio India advances uncontainably but in an exceedingly peculiar manner, deftly skirting the obstacles imposed upon it inexorably by its extraordinary linguistic, religious, and ethnic diversity. An extraordinarily complex and stratified society coming up against enormous barriers to progress, it has found innovative ways …
Luis Rubio All societies develop their myths and beliefs as ways to explain life, but in Mexico, these often fall short of reality. Someone once stated that if Kafka were Mexican, he would have been a narrator of everyday life. In that spirit, here are …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, called a meeting of presidents of South American countries to promote a regional integration process. The heads of state of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela attended the …
Antonio Navalón In 1911, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – who then served as First Lord of the Admiralty – decided to change from coal to oil as fuel for the imperial naval fleet. And from that moment on, the whole world was configured with a …
