Washington’s push to take over short-video app is about narrative, not data security

Xi’s vision turns away from walls and sanctions, offering pluralism and shared growth

10% families own 67.2% of America's wealth; homelessness, hunger and early deaths spike

Rising prices, weak job growth and political interference raise recession alarms

Beijing's state-led transition breaking link between growth and emissions

Sweeping US levies on European exports rupture trust, spark calls for self-reliance

In a muscular declaration, Global South leaders declare ‘the emperor has no clothes’

Independence Day becomes monument to plutocracy as Trump’s bill wages war on the poor, planet and future

Brutal raids reopen America’s colonial wounds, redrawing who counts as human, citizen and expendable

Replacing strategic policy with punitive economics, Trump is accelerating the very decline he claims to resist