While it now appears that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, the impact from its closure will ripple across the world for years to come. One positive consequence of the United States' war in Iran is that the world is finally building its way out of one of the
The Chicago Bears are leaving one of the great urban sports settings in America for a dome in Indiana. They issued a statement calling it regional connectivity. It isn't. On June 5, 2026, the Chicago Bears voted to move to Hammond, Indiana. Then they issued a statement. It
See our accompanying feature on Al Duqm at New Cities Atlas. Fifteen years ago, Al Duqm was a fishing settlement on Oman's southeastern Arabian Sea coast with a population of around 6,000 people, a stretch of coastline and a geography that strategists had been quietly noting for
Ninety percent of everything you own arrived by sea. The phone in your pocket, the coffee in your cup, the fuel in your car, the clothes on your back: almost all of it crossed an ocean in a steel hull before it reached you. Maritime trade is the circulatory system
Capital Frontiers has been conducting an ongoing research project on wine from around the world. We recently wrote about speculative investments in red wine production in China, among other topics. With wine now eclipsing beer as the most popular alcoholic beverage in the United States, our goal is to provide
Part One: The Corporate Game Although it is no longer America’s highest-revenue sport, baseball is still known around the world as America’s “national pastime”. Because of its long season, it attracts more viewers than any other American sport. Because of the way it is played, it is
Nearly two decades removed from the Great Recession and five years on from the global pandemic, America is gaining perspective on the impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban planning profession, where we’ve gotten a reality check about rhetoric which once predicted the birth of a new
Perhaps no better player captures the indignities of our world than the long baseball career of Shin-Soo Choo. While he is but one of hundreds of players who can claim similar or better stat lines to Derek Jeter despite nowhere near the fanfare or recognition – Edwin Encarnacion, anyone? – Choo’
In 2021, the Chinese-Mongolian border saw its worst dust storms in years, bringing dust pollution 20 times healthy levels. Swirling gusts of sand created skies so thick it appeared to be night at high noon. Air conditioners choked. And those who dared step foot outside found their shoes filled
Poor generation Z. Amid a time of cultural tumult, unprecedented social media and scars from the pandemic, one of the more battered generations in recent memory are the inheritors of our future challenges. They are also ever our cultural curiosity. Every few days another article lending another attempt at cultural
It’s hardly news to the residents of central Ohio, where it has been splashed across the front pages for weeks, but Intel recently selected the city of New Albany, Ohio as its selected future home for a new $20 billion semiconductor chip factory, an investment Intel has framed as
One of the most popular terms in planning is “automobile dependence”. The premise asserts that most people in most places in the United states are involuntarily dependent on their cars, with no other option, and that in an ideal world, in which everyone would be happier and more productive, people