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William D. Cohan • August 21, 2024

The Electric Slide & A Tesla Fallacy

Our third annual check-in with energy guru Dan Yergin about how the U.S. ended up with an oil and gas surplus, an electricity deficit, and what can make up the difference.
Lauren Sherman • July 25, 2024
Fashion’s Red Scare & More Designer Musical Chairs
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The slowdown in China has everyone worried, even the brands that shouldn’t be. And it’s all manifesting itself in the latest iteration of designer musical chairs, which favor a reversion toward the traditionalists and a lot of fear-based mis-hiring.
Lauren Sherman • July 11, 2024
Roger of Arabia
Roger Lynch
Discerning Condé Nast’s latest moves, entanglements, and disentanglements in the Middle East and China.
David McIntosh
Tina Nguyen • March 13, 2024
TikTok in MAGA Land
The China-based company targeted Trump allies in its efforts to prevent a ban, winning a group of unlikely converts. Alas, Republican insiders say, the influence campaign was poorly timed, out of touch, and came on too strong.
Dan Yergin, the world-renowned energy consultant and Pulitzer-prize winning author.
William D. Cohan • August 2, 2023
Conscious Decoupling
My wide-ranging conversation with Dan Yergin, the renowned energy consultant and Pulitzer-winner and vice chairman of S&P Global, about everything from the Chinese economy and OPEC to nuclear power and U.C.O.
China isn’t arming Russia, at least not yet, but it’s happily buying Russian oil and helping Russia bypass Western sanctions.
Julia Ioffe • May 23, 2023
The Biden-Xi-Zelensky-Putin Peace Plan
As the White House (and the White House adjacent) ponder whether Xi can intervene to forge a peace plan in Ukraine, a little healthy Washington skepticism emerges behind closed doors.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and seasoned veteran on issues of national security.
Julia Ioffe • April 11, 2023
Mark Warner’s Anti-TikTok Algorithm
A candid conversation with the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Ukraine leak, his proposed social media legislation, Putin, Xi, and Elon Musk.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during the signing ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace.
Julia Ioffe • March 21, 2023
Xi Jinping, Superstar
An ecstatic reception for the Chinese president in Moscow revealed the dearth of diplomatic and military options before Russia, and just how few friends Vladimir Putin has left.
DeSantis’s promise to ensure that no “blank checks” will be written to Ukraine placates the MAGA voter, and reassures the norms-based international order and moderate Republicans hoping for a less volatile president.
Tina Nguyen • March 15, 2023
DeSantis’s ’24 Policy Gamble
News and notes on the subtle movements on the right: DeSantis’s domestic policy-based foreign affairs play, and the N.R.A.’s long shadow.
Dylan Byers • March 8, 2023
Tucker’s Troubles & Licht’s Cri de Coeur
Inside Fox News, the network is starting to manifest the same tensions and schisms as the party it covers. Plus, news and notes on Licht’s pivot and Semafor’s controversial partnership.