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This data interactive allows users to explore trends in labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, among other key indicators.

Lauren Bauer, Eileen Powell

February 6, 2026

A pedestrian walks past an election poster bearing a photograph of Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi displayed near a polling station on February 08, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan’s thunderbolt election: Takaichi resets politics, economics, and diplomacy

Mireya Solís

February 10, 2026

Newark, New Jersey, USA - April 01, 2025: Diverse group of passengers queuing in an airport customs area in Newark, New Jersey.

Reduced immigration slowed population growth for the nation and most states, new census data show

William H. Frey

February 11, 2026

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Stiffening European sanctions against the Russian oil trade

Robin Brooks, Kate Davidson, Ben Harris, Harold Hongju Koh, Liam Marshall

February 3, 2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivers a speech to a Reform UK rally on January 19, 2026, in Newark-on-Trent, United Kingdom.

Back to the future? British politics in 2026

Anand Menon

February 4, 2026

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Immigration and Migration

Society & Culture ICE expansion has outpaced accountability. What are the remedies?

Rashawn Ray, Gabriel R. Sanchez

Immigrants & Immigration What will 2026 bring for US migration policy?

Marcela Escobari

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Immigrants & Immigration Macroeconomic implications of immigration flows in 2025 and 2026: January 2026 update

Wendy Edelberg, Stan Veuger, Tara Watson

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 25: Demonstrators march through downtown protesting ICE operations and the death of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA medical center, died yesterday after being shot multiple times during a brief altercation with border patrol agents in the Eat Street district of Minneapolis. Good was killed by an ICE agent on January 7. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Cities & Communities Immigrant communities have helped Minneapolis prosper. The federal crackdown threatens to undermine that.

Andre M. Perry

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Global Security

Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (L), US President Donald Trump (C) and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev attend the "Board of Peace" meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026.

Diplomacy & Multilateralism Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and the multilateral order

Bruce Jones

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026.

Geopolitics Is Trump reshaping the world order?

Melanie W. Sisson, Daniel S. Hamilton, Douglas A. Rediker, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Ryan Hass, Jeffrey Feltman, Patricia M. Kim, Stephanie T. Williams, Steven Pifer, Pavel K. Baev, Anand Menon, Andrew Yeo +8 more