August 8th 2026

e-ISSN : 0013-0613

Contents:

1. Why AI is a risk to Communist China
2. How AI is breaking the British state
3. Gulf states should make a deal with Iran on Hormuz
4. Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom
5. Republicans and Democrats uniting against animal testing are wrong
6. How to end Sudan’s brutal, forgotten conflict
7. How AI-fuelled wealth is reshaping South Korea
8. Why ever fewer young Chinese study abroad
9. Can America retrain workers before AI leaves them behind?
10. Amid foreign interference, Brazil’s election kicks off with a whimper
11. How long can Iran weaponise Hormuz?
12. Europe encourages its neighbours to practise migration blackmail
13. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
14. A battle for supremacy has laid the country and its capital to waste