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Region: Global

Histories whose central argument is genuinely interregional or worldwide.

A hillside cemetery and houses overlook steelworks in Bethlehem in 1935.

Steel’s New Border War Has an Old Problem: Who Pays for Adjustment?

The September 2026 Milwaukee Framework confronts steel overcapacity. Earlier American and European crises show why border protection, industrial adjustment and the fate of steel towns cannot be separated.

Categories Know the Present
Cabinets of the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, photographed in 2022.

Can Washington Buy an AI Breakthrough?

Washington’s 8 October AI-science push raises an old question: who benefits when public ambition meets private technology? Apollo and the Human Genome Project offer contrasting lessons.

Categories Know the Present
Robert Charles Dudley’s watercolor of cable-handling machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern.

The Internet Still Crosses the Ocean by Cable

New alarms over undersea cables have a long history. From the first Atlantic telegraph to the internet, routes, repair ships, and reliable evidence have mattered as much as the lines themselves.

Categories Know the Present
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