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Wide view of the long colonnaded granite facade of the US Treasury Building under a blue sky, with trees and a street in front

Why rich governments are paying more to borrow, and who feels it

Aerial night view of a sprawling oil refinery glowing with orange and white lights under a deep blue sky

Why diesel remains scarce as crude exports recover

Astronaut photograph of a desert coastline with a wide bay and several pale, reef-fringed islands in deep blue water

Ethiopia already reaches the sea. Why does it want a coast?

Why desalination hasn’t solved the water crisis — and what actually...

The countries most likely to dissolve in the next 50 years

Dollar dominance – why the world’s most traded commodity isn’t oil

How international sanctions actually work — and why they usually don’t

How the world decided what time it is — and why...

Sykes-Picot Agreement – how a carve-up planned in 1916 still shapes...

How the metric system became a geopolitical weapon

Why the world’s largest landowners are not who you expect

Boutique powers: how countries without resource wealth became extraordinarily rich

The hidden architecture of tax havens: more legitimate than you think