3 Takeaways™

Most people see the world as the U.S. vs. China.But the real power shift is happening elsewhere.

Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and a former senior advisor at the National Security Council and the U.S. State Department, shows which countries are quietly shaping the next world order - and why the biggest power shifts are happening far from the spotlight.

Inflation, interest rates, AI, tariffs, the dollar…

Most people treat them as separate stories but actually, they’re not.

Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jason Furman explains how these forces are all connected - and why most people are missing the bigger picture.

What’s really driving inflation, why the dollar’s power may be slipping, and why the biggest risk isn’t what most people are watching.

A conversation about the hidden forces shaping the economy - and what comes next.

“We trained a whole country.”

It sounds like an exaggeration.

It’s not - according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China.

So what actually happened in China?

Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, CEO of Cleveland Clinic and a leading heart surgeon, explains how medicine is already changing in ways most people don’t see.

He has spent his career performing complex heart surgeries and now leads one of the world’s top hospitals.

A conversation about what’s changing in care and what it means for patients right now.

Iran briefly showed it could choke off a waterway carrying nearly a fifth of the world’s oil.

That’s the visible threat.

The real risk may be something else entirely.

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and U.S. Special Representative to Iran Elliott Abrams breaks down where Iran's strategy backfired, whether those in power in Tehran can hold on, and why the most dangerous consequence could outlast the war itself.
He is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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