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Economic Statecraft

Analysis of sanctions, supply chain warfare, trade conflicts, and the weaponization of economic interdependence between states.

The Venezuela Deployment: Why America's Mismatch Is the Message

The Venezuela Deployment: Why America's Mismatch Is the Message

The USS Gerald R. Ford sits off Venezuela with enough firepower to destroy but not enough forces to occupy. This gap between capability and intent reveals Washington's true objectives—and their limits.

The Architecture of Impunity: Why the World Cannot Stop Sudan's Genocide

The Architecture of Impunity: Why the World Cannot Stop Sudan's Genocide

The United States has formally declared genocide in Darfur. The RSF continues killing. Sudan reveals that the humanitarian intervention system was never designed to work against adversaries with great-power protection and independent revenue streams.

The Quantum Countdown: How a Computing Revolution Will Reshape Security, Science, and Power

The Quantum Countdown: How a Computing Revolution Will Reshape Security, Science, and Power

Quantum computers capable of breaking today's encryption may arrive within a decade. The race to upgrade global cryptographic infrastructure has begun—but most organizations have not started running. The consequences of delay compound daily.

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

As 79% of enterprises adopt AI agents, the consequential shifts are not in productivity metrics but in organizational connective tissue—informal networks, tacit knowledge, and accountability structures that never appeared on workflow diagrams.

When the Clocks Stop: The Hidden Fragility of Global Timing Infrastructure

When the Clocks Stop: The Hidden Fragility of Global Timing Infrastructure

The War Nobody Watches: Why Sudan's Genocide Remains Invisible to Western Powers

The War Nobody Watches: Why Sudan's Genocide Remains Invisible to Western Powers

Sudan controls critical Red Sea access and Africa's third-largest gold reserves. Its civil war has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. The US has declared genocide. Yet Western powers treat it as background noise—a structural failure with strategic consequences.

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research

The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research

The move from Schedule I to Schedule III promises to unleash cannabis research, but pharmaceutical companies face a deeper challenge: a plant that resists the very methods the industry uses to prove medicines work.

Half-Legal No More? What Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Will and Won't Change

Half-Legal No More? What Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Will and Won't Change

The DEA's proposed move of marijuana to Schedule III promises tax relief worth billions but leaves banking access, capital markets, and interstate commerce in legal limbo. The gap between expectation and reality will define the industry's next chapter.

The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling

The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling

The Association for Computing Machinery will make all publications freely accessible by 2026. The decision exposes how concentrated market power created its own opposition—and how the economics of scholarly communication are being rewritten by the institutions that once funded their own...