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Enhancing regional security in the Indo-Pacific (Atlantic Council)

As China’s provocative military activity towards Taiwan has continued to surge over the past year, the United States and its allies and partners in...

A Denser City, But at What Cost? (Jessica Bateman, Bloomberg)

Over the next decade, Tirana is poised for a dramatic makeover. In the center of the Albanian capital, modern high-rises are taking the place...

Rural America’s False Sense of Security (Olga Khazan, The Atlantic)

Every few months throughout the pandemic, Wesley Thompson, a communications consultant in Washington, D.C., has driven to Indiana with his wife and two kids...

Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country (Cheryl W. Thompson, Cristina Kim, Natalie Moore, Roxana Popescu,...

Inga Selders, a city council member in a suburb of Kansas City, wanted to know if there were provisions preventing homeowners from legally having...

Big tech’s critics flocking again to Oracle’s home on the Hill (Emily Birnbaum, Politico)

The movement inside Congress to curb tech titans like Amazon and Google is drawing energy from an unlikely hub of anti-Silicon Valley fervor: a...

Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare (Peter Guest, Rest of World)

On a hard disk somewhere in the surveillance archives of Singapore’s Changi prison is a video of Jolovan Wham, naked, alone, performing Hamlet. In 2017,...

New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods (Julia Hotz, Bloomberg)

A row of plastic bins sits in a gravel lot next to Brooklyn’s Domino Park promenade; each holds small pieces of New York City’s...

Texas Instruments to Build New Chip Manufacturing Campus in Sherman, Texas (IndustryWeek)

Texas Instruments announced Wednesday it would break ground in 2022 on a new semiconductor campus in Sherman, Texas. In a company statement November 17, the...

Biden Electric Car Plan Would Boost Detroit, Anger Allies (Agence France-Press, IndustryWeek)

President Biden's proposal to reward electric cars made at U.S. union shops has earned applause from organized labor, but the measure has drawn heckles...

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