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A crucial issue in this fight is the choice of indicators used to measure human progress. This is not a mere technical matter; it is political and affects all citizens. All too often, the European debate becomes mired in outdated indicators that are completely unsuited to considering the future and social well-being in an era of climate change.
The most glaring and unfortunately common mistake is to compare GDP per capita using market exchange rates. This amounts to ignoring the surge in prices in the US. It is like examining the evolution of wages while forgetting inflation. In 2025, the average exchange rate was on average around $1.10 to €1 (about $1.05 at the beginning of the year and $1.15 at the end). However, to equalize price levels, the exchange rate would need to be approximately $1.50 to €1. By failing to use purchasing power parity – the only way to compare the real levels of goods and services produced in each region – people overstate US wealth by nearly 40% compared to European wealth.

The second mistake is to overlook differences in working hours. Europe chose shorter workweeks and longer vacations, which increased social well-being and reduced its material footprint. Taking both factors into account, hourly productivity, or GDP per hour worked, measured in purchasing power parity, is higher in northern Europe than in the US, whose lead in some sectors and regions is more than offset by lagging performance elsewhere.

The era of arms control over nuclear arsenals is set to end this week as the last legal check on the size of Russia and the US’s deployed nuclear weapons expires.

The New Start treaty, which caps the number of operational missiles and warheads in the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, terminates on Thursday. With the prospects for future talks looking dim, it potentially opens a new era of great-power atomic brinkmanship.
“I genuinely believe we are now at the threshold of a new arms race,” said James Acton, co-director of the nuclear policy programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “I don’t think in my lifetime there is going to be another treaty limiting numbers.”

longtime resident of the Rio Grande Valley, Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.

O’Reilly pointed to OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy who has embraced Moltbook in posts on X. “His agent's API key, like every other agent on the platform, was sitting in that exposed database,” he said. “If someone malicious had found this before me, they could extract his API key and post anything they wanted as his agent. Karpathy has 1.9 million followers on X and is one of the most influential voices in AI. Imagine fake AI safety hot takes, crypto scam promotions, or inflammatory political statements appearing to come from him. The reputational damage would be immediate and the correction would never fully catch up.”