With the July 8, 2026, resumption of hostilities between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, what attracts attention more than the strikes themselves is the pattern of target selection. In conventional warfare, military assets are normally prioritized....
U.S. demand for electricity is expected to hit an all-time high both this year and next, driven by the data center buildout of Big Tech. This is the latest in a series of record-demand projections by the Energy Information Administration....
LISTEN NOW: Oliver Larkin spent a decade battling the Democratic Party’s campaign machine as an organizer for candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, in Florida’s Aug. 18 primary, he’s a democratic socialist going up against Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) —...
It’s been nearly 50 years since director Robb Moss first documented his month-long trip through the Grand Canyon with five friends. That footage became the 1978 documentary “Riverdogs” and served as the jumping off point for its appropriately titled 2003...
A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...
China has driven the world’s solar energy deployment, adding capacity at such a blistering rate that the nation’s existing and planned wind and solar generation nearly doubles the rest of the world put together. However, China’s deployment of supportive infrastructure...
Romania has shut down its only nuclear power station because of extremely low water levels in the Danube river caused by prolonged hot weather affecting much of Europe. The Cernavodă plant, where two reactors produce about 20% of Romania’s electricity, is...
In 2007, nearly two decades ago, I wrote an article called “The Future Is Solar.” At the time, my argument was largely based on efficiency. I had been comparing biofuels with direct solar energy and noted how much more effectively...
Washington is putting real money behind advanced nuclear. The US Department of Energy is gearing up to hand X-energy another $1 billion for its planned nuclear project with Dow in Texas, bringing total federal funding available for the project since...
Russia’s diesel and gasoil exports crashed in the first seven days of August to just 80,000 barrels per day (bpd), the lowest in many years, as Moscow extended restrictions on diesel exports amid a fuel crisis triggered by incessant Ukrainian...
Oil supply disruptions, high fuel prices and faster battery innovation could give electric vehicle adoption a fresh push, with consequences for oil demand, power grids and metals markets, Wood Mackenzie said Thursday. Wars affecting oil-producing Russia and Iran have exposed...
A Room in Vienna That Washington Did Not Book In July, in a private room in Vienna, three men who used to run European foreign policy sat down with a former Kremlin official whose name has still not been made...
A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more robust space and defense capabilities and facilitates innovation more broadly. As competition between the United States and China heats up, both...
Amid a thicket of hopeful rhetoric surrounding the construction of a trans-Afghan pipeline that would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to South Asia, tangible signs of progress are hard to find. The pipeline, known as TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India), has been on...
The failure of the US military despite trillions of dollars to defeat Iran Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a researcher with CODEPINK. Cross-posted from Scheer Post According to...
At #DAC2026 I met with Vamshi Kothur at Tuple Technologies to see how their cloud infrastructure products help IC design teams get their chip designs to market more quickly without the overhead of big IT and CAD teams. Tuple was...
The influence of fear on the behaviour of states. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine I’ve been wondering whether there’s anything useful to say at the moment about the wider aspects of the...
Brent crude futures held near recent highs of $90 a barrel before fading to around $87 early Thursday morning, as traders awaited progress toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Stalled US-Iran negotiations and tightening global fuel supplies continued to support prices and concern...
A closer look at the work of the Adam Smith Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Last week, the 19 th Congress of the World Association of Political Economy...
Porsche is reportedly preparing to phase out production of its flagship Taycan electric sports car by 2030, marking a major setback for the German automaker’s once-aggressive electrification strategy. Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche reported Thursday that Porsche management and its works council have...
While the situation around the Strait of Hormuz remains difficult to predict, there is now some clarity on another of Iran's maritime fronts. Tehran has unexpectedly launched the ratification process for the 2018 Convention on the Legal Status of the...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Font sizes might screw over your next vacation. 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - How Democrats’ “center” is hunting down socialists. - The human costs...
The UK economy grew 0.4 per cent between April and June, official data has revealed, in a sign that businesses and consumers have so far weathered the worst shocks of the war in Iran. The growth figure from the Office...
Progressives experienced a split in two closely watched Democratic primaries Tuesday, as voters in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced sharply different results in contests that represented competing visions for the party’s future. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan decisively won the Democratic U.S....
Photo by Maria Lysenko on Unsplash Every time Democrats take power, they immediately act like this is the beginning of a thousand years of Democratic rule. It seems they can see no universe in which the pendulum might swing away from...
Ukraine struck another major Russian refinery Thursday, hitting Gazprom's Neftekhim Salavat complex in the Urals as Kyiv intensified attacks that have already forced Moscow to curb fuel exports and even import gasoline. The attack caused a fire at the 200,000-barrel-per-day...
This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media . This Saturday , at their summer meeting in Austin, Texas, members of the Democratic National Committee will likely get a chance to vote on whether the party should ban the use...
CÚCUTA, Colombia — Between 1964 and the signing of the Havana Accords in 2016, fighting among the Colombian military, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas killed more than 450,000 people. That war, which involved relatively cohesive ideological sides, is beginning again,...
Man dies in Bas-Uele after travelling from Haut-Uele, as head of WHO says outbreak on track to be deadliest ever The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day...
For months now, traders and market analysts have had to weigh two opposing scenarios for oil prices—the ongoing war and severely disrupted oil flows at the Strait of Hormuz and hopes that a U.S.-Iran deal would free up millions of...
Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m....
On 31 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that it had disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law-enforcement impersonation scams. The suspected network created false identities, translated conversations, generated images of forged documents, and adapted its messages...
Romania on Thursday began shutting down its only remaining operating nuclear reactor as record-low water levels on the Danube have forced nuclear power shutdowns in central and eastern Europe in recent weeks. Nuclearelectrica has launched the process to disconnect the...
Disciplinary proceedings under way after security concerns raised over reported visits to official residence France has opened disciplinary proceedings against its ambassador to Central African Republic over allegations of misconduct, after claims he brought dozens of women into his official residence,...
Once Africa’s most revered pop brotherhood, the dynamic duo P-Square has now been reduced to a music-business case study. Peter Okoye’s fresh video series revived allegations over royalties, catalogue access and financial records, while older brother and former manager Jude Okoye...
Football is accustomed to comeback stories, but Chinedu Ozor’s unfolded far beyond the pitch. The Katsina United defender collapsed during a pre-season friendly against Niger Tornadoes at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium and was rushed to hospital, where he was reportedly pronounced dead. Condolences...
The world's leading autocracies -- China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea -- are increasingly drawing on one another's resources, military capabilities, and geopolitical leverage to withstand Western pressure. For Washington, the strategic dilemma is no longer simply whether the four...
Climate change, especially erratic rainfall, is a threat to cotton production, the foundation of the entire textiles value chain, in Africa. But a range of novel solutions offer hope for the sector to not only survive but thrive, writes Ben...
South African influencer and dancer Limpopo Boy (real name Matome Thoka Robert) is trending for the wrong reasons. A supposed private and intimate video of him and Matilda Matshidiso was posted to his Instagram Story on the 9th of August 2026....
Decommissioning remained a major activity across the UK North Sea in 2025, with industry spending hitting a record-high of £2.6 billion, or $3.5 billion, the North Sea industry regulator said in a report on Thursday. Well decommissioning remains the single...
After speaking with dozens of semiconductor professionals at the Design Automation Conference in Long Beach about AI in the chip-design workflow, Claude emerged as the common denominator in every conversation. We’re still at the tip of the iceberg when it...
British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received the undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Declassified show how...
State-controlled Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) is finalizing feasibility studies for two new strategic petroleum reserves facilities as the world’s third-largest crude oil importer looks to boost its energy security. ISPRL, a government-owned special purpose vehicle, is finalizing a...
When ministers from seven key OPEC plus countries concluded their virtual deliberations on August 2, 2026 , and announced a scheduled production adjustment of 188,000 barrels per day for September, financial desks from London to New York instantly swung into...
A bill about the construction of a pipeline for liquefied natural gas has failed to secure sufficient votes in the state’s legislature, prompting a sharp reaction from Governor Mike Dunleavy who was behind the bill. “The Legislature’s decision to not...
Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido have transformed Nigerian pop and taken Afrobeats global. But their rise has also fuelled a long-running contest over who can claim the title of Nigeria’s biggest pop star. Oris Aigbokhaevbolo traces a decade of breakthroughs,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russians possess a “genetic code of winners” during a meeting with Sakhalin Region Governor Valery Limarenko, who briefed the president on support measures for participants in the special military operation and their families. Limarenko said he...
China’s biggest coal-to-chemicals producer reported record profits for the first half, raking in the equivalent of $1.4 billion as crude oil prices soared internationally, strengthening the business case for converting coal to chemicals. Bloomberg reported today that Ningxia Baofeng Energy...
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