Few subjects today get more attention or generate more anxiety in the West than artificial intelligence, particularly the prospect of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a hypothetical system tha...
For us linguists, the flurry of “word of the year” announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies. The words of the year aren’t just a fun peek into...
US President Donald Trump has signaled in an interview with the Wall Street Journal he is close to announcing his pick for the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. With inflation again increasing ami...
China now leads the world in nearly 90% of the “critical technologies” that can significantly boost or endanger national interests, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s lates...
TOKYO – As 2026 approaches, the Bank of Japan finds itself in the unenviable position of a central bank that cried wolf. Last week, BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda’s board made good on its talk of highe...
As 2025 draws to a close, Donald Trump’s return to the White House has produced a foreign policy that defies easy categorization. The president who campaigned against endless wars and promised an “Ame...
Rapidus, Japan’s effort to create a domestic chip-making alternative to TSMC and Samsung Foundry, is becoming a broad-based national industrial project of a kind Americans might dream about but that o...
The proposed Trump-class battleship, officially known as the BBG(X) guided missile battleship program, is planned to be the largest warship built by the United States since World War II. The entire pr...
When Asia Times published the analysis “Vingroup’s legal bullying doesn’t work in Germany like in Vietnam“ in November 2025, we pointed out that major conglomerates cannot easily use their...
After a career making custom pieces for Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, Sorcha O’Raghallaigh brought her couture-grade embroidery to the Swedish pop star’s tour
From the Mexico-US borderlands to the apartments of fashion obsessives in Tokyo, this year has been filled with photo projects that reimagine the world’s places and people
We speak with mutual aid groups working on the ground about the extreme weather battering the strip and why, despite the ‘ceasefire’, conditions haven’t improved
We close out the year with six photo stories that encapsulate the past year and the seminal moments for our global Dazed Club community
From festivals to the tube, earplugs are everywhere – we spoke to Loop’s co-founder Maarten Bodewes about how they’re making earplugs as essential as sunglasses
The Swedish activist was taken into police custody this morning for holding a banner reading ‘I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide’