Daily articles on what's actually happening in the world β geopolitics, business, finance, science β paired with SAT-style quizzes and an AI tutor.
A swarm of speedboats β some little more than racing yachts with machine guns bolted on β is keeping a fifth of the world's oil hostage and embarrassing the US Navy.
India's economy has balanced on a single trick for twenty years: sell foreign software, buy foreign oil. A speculative research note argues AI is about to shatter both halves of that equation at once.
A miracle drug that helps millions lose weight is colliding with a brutal corporate reality: somebody has to pay for it, and employers are increasingly saying 'not us.'
For ten years, the UAE quietly capped its own oil production to keep Saudi Arabia solvent. Then a war with Iran exposed the bill β and Abu Dhabi decided it was done paying.
Everyone says AI will gut India's outsourcing industry. A contrarian analyst crunched the numbers and found the opposite β and what he found could reshape the entire global economy.
Imagine paying your boss a million rubles just to get medical leave after being shot. For Russian soldiers in Ukraine, that's not a metaphor β it's the price list.
India just overtook Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy β but a leaked Bernstein letter to its Prime Minister warns the next decade could decide whether that rise is real or a mirage.
A naval blockade in a waterway most teenagers couldn't find on a map is quietly rewriting what next year's groceries will cost β and farmers half a world away are already paying the price.