Russia says it is open to economic cooperation with the West in the Arctic. Arctic ice is melting fast, giving way to new and shorter shipping routes. Underneath that ice, there are billions of dollars worth of oil, gas and critical minerals. The scramble to control those resources has begun and Russia is in a prime position to exploit the region. President Vladimir Putin has recently warned of...

On March 4, the US-Mexico border was at a standstill. The trucks that Thor Salayandia was planning to send across a checkpoint to the United States sat in the lot. The only thing moving was the confusion in the air. Salayandia owns and operates a factory in Juarez, Mexico that makes auto parts and ships truckloads of metal tubes to warehouses in the US state of Texas for...