This is the very last post of the year. The Daily Planet will be back in 2026, though I am not sure when. I am going to take a long break, and will be back no later than the end of Feb. And the topics are going to change dramatically when I do so. Happy Ne...

When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived at the COP30 climate summit in Belém this November, he stepped out of a Chevrolet - the lone American vehicle in a fleet of Chinese electric and hybrid cars assembled to shuttle world leaders thr...

The world is undergoing a transformation whose outlines we are only beginning to discern. For five centuries, the West has imagined itself as both the author and subject of history, as the arbiter of what constitutes progress and modernity. That story has ...