by Aseem Gupta | Dec 27, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In early 2023, France appeared to be fighting over two years. President Emmanuel Macron’s government wanted to raise the minimum legal retirement age from 62 to 64. Millions of people marched against the proposal. Trade unions organised repeated strikes. Trains were...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 13, 2025 | Technology, AI & Complex Systems
The Trillion-Dollar Question OpenAI earned approximately $13 billion in revenue in 2025. Around the same time, Sam Altman was describing plans for 30 gigawatts of artificial intelligence computing capacity requiring roughly $1.4 trillion of investment. Put those...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Donald Trump does not simply claim to be a president who prefers peace. He presents himself as a uniquely effective peacemaker: the leader who can enter conflicts that have defeated conventional diplomats, threaten or charm the participants into agreement, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Inside many electric vehicles is a motor capable of turning electrical energy into immediate, almost silent acceleration. Buried inside that motor may be a small collection of permanent magnets containing rare-earth elements such as neodymium and praseodymium....
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 2, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the White House promising to change how power worked in Washington. One of his targets was the revolving door between government and private industry. Officials, he argued, should not be able to shape public policy, leave...
