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The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has come under unprecedented strains in recent years. US President Barack Obama has openly questioned Riyadh's value as an ally, accusing it of provoking sectarian conflict in the region. According to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, when Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s prime minister, asked Obama whether he saw the Saudis as friends, the president responded, “It’s complicated.”

An alliance led by BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi won 325 out of 403 seats on offer in the Uttar Pradesh state assembly, a humiliating defeat for opposition forces.

The promises of science fiction are quickly becoming workaday realities. Cars and trucks are starting to drive themselves in normal traffic. Machines have begun to understand our speech, figure out what we want, and satisfy our requests. They have learned to write clean prose, generate novel scientific hypotheses (that are supported by later research), compose evocative music, and beat us, quite literally, at our own games: chess, poker, and even go.

Some foreign policy decisions hang like albatrosses around the necks of the states that made them. For the United States, the war in Iraq offers the prime example of a costly and seemingly irreversible blunder. For Europe, it is the adoption of the euro. Fifteen years ago, when the EU established its single currency, European leaders promised higher growth due to greater efficiency and sounder macroeconomic policies, greater equality between rich and poor countries within a freer capital market.

Targeting workers for immigration-related offenses, such as using a forged or stolen Social Security number or driver’s license, produced a significant uptick in deportations under Bush. But the practice was widely criticized for splitting up families, gutting businesses that relied on immigrant labor and taking aim at people who went to work every day, rather than dangerous criminals.

"Harsh Memories of Raids, Grim Fears for the Future" is from the January 02, 2017 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Amy Chozick and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Vladimir Putin is all but certain to be reelected on March 18, and how he will act in the years to come will have much to do with how he came to power.

Dieses italienische Hörbuch präsentiert im Sprachteil anhand vieler Dialoge und Übungen das Thema Futur. Die monatliche Reportage befasst sich diesmal mit dem Thema Abhängigkeit der Italiener von Web, Mails und Handy. Hinzu kommt ein Artikel über den schönen Ort Gubbio, in Umbrien.

"Apple Moves toward a Wireless Future, One Tweak at a Time" is from the September 07, 2016, Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Katie Benner and narrated by Sam Scholl.

When President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year this weekend, he did it in Gatsby-like opulence, joined by actor Sylvester Stallone, the gossip page fixture Fabio and a crowd of wealthy developers reveling under the swaying palm trees at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

"Mar-A-Lago, the Future Winter White House and Home of the Calmer Trump" is from the January 01, 2017 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Maggie Haberman and narrated by Kristi Burns.

After two and a half decades, is the United States’ run as the world’s sole superpower coming to an end? Many say yes, seeing a rising China ready to catch up to or even surpass the United States in the near future. China’s economy is on track to become the world’s biggest, and even if its growth slows, it will still outpace that of the United States for many years. Beijing has used its new wealth to attract friends, deter enemies, modernize its military, and aggressively assert sovereignty claims.

By launching an e-residency program, Estonia is leading the way to a new market - one in which states compete for customers just as businesses do.

The international order must find ways to survive illiberal assaults from Russia, China, and, increasingly, populist revolutions among its leading members. Doubling down on U.S. dominance would be the wrong approach. It would be better to build a less hegemonic, more diverse system.

How López Obrador chooses to enact his policies—and whether he will abide by the often frustrating institutional checks and balances within Mexico’s democratic political system—will have long lasting consequences for the country's future. 

Swarm robotics, autonomous delivery vehicles, and machine-learned preferences will help deliver your food faster.

The Russian millennials who will inherit Vladimir Putin's political system won't upend it. Drawing on hours of conversations with Russia's future leaders, Ellen Mickewicz explains why they will uphold the status quo.