Search
AI-powered search, human-powered content.
scroll to top arrow or icon

popular

A lighthouse in a stormy sea.

I get a lot of questions these days from people feeling worried, disturbed, even overwhelmed about the state of politics in the United States. Recently, I received a particularly heartfelt request for guidance from a concerned citizen that demanded more than a few honest but incomplete thoughts typed quickly in between meetings. I thought I'd use today's column to share her message (with her name redacted) and my full response, in the hope that you might find it useful, too.

* * *

From: [name redacted]

To: me

Not sure you will read this through…

Read moreShow less

Chart of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of 2025.

Eileen Zhang

The 2025 Supreme Court term began this month, ushering in a slate of cases that could reshape American governance. No one will be watching more closely than President Donald Trump, whose efforts to expand executive power and limit independent oversight will be under the judicial microscope.

Here are the biggest cases to watch:

Is it time to end the Voting Rights Act? Louisiana v. Callais

Louisiana v. Callais will be argued today. It could upend the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark 1965 law that outlawed discriminatory practices that were designed to limit people's access to the ballot on the basis of race. Before the VRA, African Americans in the South — though granted suffrage by the 15th Amendment in 1870 — were often disenfranchised by literacy tests, poll taxes, and gerrymandered districts designed to dilute their political power.

Read moreShow less

People walk past a jewelry store in the Diamond District of Manhattan, New York City, USA, on August 6, 2025.

Jimin Kim / SOPA Images via Reuters Connect

If you’re thinking of slipping an engagement ring on your partner’s finger this year, you may find some deals out there.

The price of all diamonds, both rough and lab-grown, has plummeted in recent years. The price of a natural, one-carat diamond dropped 26% over the last three years. The drop is even bigger for their lab-grown equivalents: a one-carat factory-made diamond now costs much less than half what it did in 2022. Since 2016, the value of these one-carat lab-grown diamonds is down 86%.

The reasons for this are clear: with prospective spouses increasingly switching to lab-grown rocks for ethical, environmental and cost purposes, there is less and less demand for natural ones. A study from The Knot last year found that more than half of couples used a lab-grown diamond on their engagement ring, and that popularity for these alternatives has increased 40% in recent years.

Read moreShow less

RPG-7 training of Ukrainian soldiers. November 17, 2024.

  • Adrien Vautier via Reuters Connect

People from different cultures often approach the same problem in different ways. We wondered — would an AI trained and tuned in China approach a complex geopolitical challenge differently than a model created and trained in Europe, or in the United States? Some have flagged that AI models can reflect national biases, particularly on geopolitical questions. How does that play out in practice?

Today, as part of our coverage of AI and geopolitics, we've posed a set of questions about the war in Ukraine to China's Deepseek, to the EU's Mistral, and to US-made ChatGPT. All questions were posed verbatim as prompts.

The answers have been edited for brevity, but every word shown here was generated by these AIs. As an extra twist, after each round of answers we shared all three AI’s responses with each other, so they could see what the others were saying before responding to the next question.

Read moreShow less

Released hostage Evyatar David, who was kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and taken to Gaza, reacts upon arrival at the site of Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on October 13, 2025.

REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

The Israeli hostages are finally home – but what next for Gaza?

After two years in Hamas captivity, the last 20 living Israeli hostages – all of them men – have returned home from Gaza, sparking jubilant scenes both for the families and across the Jewish state. US President Donald Trump touted their return during a speech to the Knesset, declaring that Israel was “at peace.” As part of the deal, Israel released over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners. Though the ceasefire is holding in Gaza, there remains a huge amount of uncertainty over the fate of the enclave and its management, as thousands of Palestinians return home to destroyed neighborhoods. Hamas is reappearing on Gazan streets, and has been clashing with rival Palestinian clans in recent days – with dozens killed. Under Trump’s 20-point peace plan, Hamas will have no role in Gaza’s future, yet the US president said over the weekend that the militant group has “approval for a period of time” to run security there. But for how long?

Read moreShow less
- YouTube

A landmark moment in the Middle East: All 20 remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas have been released, and a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has been signed—brokered by President Trump.

Read moreShow less

Subscribe to our free newsletter, GZERO Daily

GZEROMEDIA

Subscribe to GZERO's daily newsletter

Most Popular Videos