Vance Shrugs Off Backlash After Trump Says Americans' Finances Don't Factor Into Iran War "Even A Little Bit"

The future of the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) is up in the air as the UN Security Council is poised to start debating the possibility to extending its mandate yet again. The mandate was last extended in 2025, supposedly for the final time, and the US and Israel sought its expiration at the […]

How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years Over the last 200 years, economic leadership has shifted from China to the British Empire, then to the United States, and increasingly back toward Asia. This streamgraph, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, tracks how the share of global gross domestic product (GDP) held by major economies changed from 1820 to 2025. The visualization incorporates the latest available data from the Maddison Project Database, the COLDAT Colonial Dates Dataset, and the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. All GDP figures are adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), accounting...