The Quiet Invasion: When Foreign Products Take Over Everything

No soldiers cross the border. No tanks arrive at the capital. No warning sirens sound. Instead, something much quieter happens. A phone arrives from another country. Then a television. Then medicines. Then machinery. Then batteries, solar panels, computer chips, fertilizers, toys, clothing and thousands of everyday products. They are cheaper....

The Countries That Don’t Have Enough Water Will Rewrite the World

For most of human history, countries fought over land. Then came oil. Now, quietly, another resource is becoming impossible to ignore: Water. We can manufacture smartphones. We can produce more energy. We can build artificial intelligence systems capable of processing enormous amounts of information. But we still cannot manufacture a...