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The recent "Odd Lots" episode, "How a Trade War With China Could Become a Hot War," is a critical listen It moves beyond typical economic analysis to model the escalatory pathways from trade disputes to kinetic warfare The historical parallels drawn, not just to the American Revolution but more pointedly to 1930s Japan, provide a sobering framework for analyzing current US-China tensions This is the kind of second-order thinking that's desperately needed in policy discussions right now.

"A skeletal 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq is the lead picture for the Guardian, which reports on Israeli attacks on aid hubs and worsening starvation in Gaza. Palestinian Faiza Abdul Rahman, who is "constantly dizzy" from lack of food says: "We have faced hunger before, but never like this", a quote the paper uses as its main headline"

Newspaper headlines: 'Crushing' treatment delays and '4-star fiasco'

Doctors' strikes and concerns over immigration feature on Thursday's front pages.