It sometimes feels as though the Trump administration gets its worldview and foreign policy ideas from a Kremlin School of International Relations course taught by Vladimir Putin — though at a CliffsNotes level that fails to consider how those strategies played out.

 

Trump Is Copying Putin’s Losing Playbook With Canada

By Marc Champion

Marc Champion is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

If 2025’s A.I. frenzy was merely bonkers then we are now entering the territory of bonkers squared — or perhaps even bonkers cubed.

 

This Is How the A.I. Debt Binge Sinks the Economy

By Robin Wigglesworth

Mr. Wigglesworth is an editor at the Financial Times. His forthcoming book is “A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World.”