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Coverage · April · 2026 · Long Reads · 406 articles

Putin and Araghchi: Inside the Iran-Russia Strategic Partnership That Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of the Middle East

Putin Meets Araghchi in St. Petersburg: What the Iran-Russia Alignment Reveals About a Fracturing Order

Iran's Araghchi Lands in Moscow: What the Putin Handshake Signals About Shifting Alignments

Road to Nowhere: The Kirkuk–Sulaimaniyah Highway and Iraq's Chronic Safety Crisis

The White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting: Power, Public Space, and the Digital Mob That Followed

The 20th Package: What the EU's Sanctions Hammer Reveals About the Limits of Economic Coercion Against Russia

China's AI Sovereignty Line: What Meta's $2bn Manus Block Reveals About Beijing's Tech Gatekeeping

DeepSeek's Price-Cut Gambit Exposes the Limits of AI's Cost-Deflation Story

The Strait That Runs the World Economy Just Ground to a Halt

Merz's Iran Question: The German Chancellor's Risky Diplomatic Tightrope

The Drone War's Arithmetic: Ukraine's Air Defence Edge and the Patriot Shortage That Could Unravel It

The Diplomacy That Wasn't: Oil Markets and the Anatomy of a Stalled Iran Deal

When Capital Flees Both the Ledger and the Lane

Merz's Iran Verdict Is the Sound of a Transatlantic Alliance Cracking

Inside Israel's Lebanon Strikes: The Ceasefire That Never Was

Eternal Russia: How Putin's Resilience Narrative Masks an Economy Under Pressure

How latwogang broke PLN 150 million: Poland's viral cancer fundraiser and the limits of institutional medicine

Starmer's Sovereign Line: What the Prime Minister's 'Not In Our Interests' Doctrine Reveals About Britain's Calculated Restraint

China's Manus Veto Exposes the Fragile Architecture of US Tech Deals in Xi’s Era

The Escalation Ladder: Drone Strikes and Helicopter Fire Test the Limits of the Lebanon Ceasefire

The Gulf's Winning Hand: How Qatar and the UAE Are Shaping the New Middle Eastern Order

Crypto's Geopolitical Turn: How Bitcoin Learned to Watch Iran

The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is No Longer a Question of If, but What Comes Next

Fertiliser Wars: How the Iran Conflict Is Reshaping Global Food Security

Hezbollah's Kassem Tells Israel It Faces an Impasse. The Footage Suggests Otherwise

The Quiet Power of PLN 150 Million: How Polish Grassroots Giving Rewrote the Rules of Civic Philanthropy

China's Nano Preservation Suit and the Lufeng Dinosaur Eggs: Science, Strategy, and the Stakes of Fossil Heritage

The State and the Party: Hezbollah's Declaration and the Fracture in Lebanese Sovereignty

How Poland's #Latwogang Became a Cultural and Charitable Phenomenon

The Night the Correspondents' Dinner Became a Scene from America's Gun Violence Archive

Hezbollah's Qassem Declares 'Resistance' Will Not Surrender Weapons in First Major Policy Address Since Ceasefire Talks

Iran's Hormuz Gambit: What Tehran's Deal Proposal Reveals About the Shape of Middle East Diplomacy

How the US-Iran War Sank American Fishing — and What It Says About Dollar Decline

The Night the Correspondents' Dinner Became a Political Flashpoint

Pezeshkian's Freedom Day Message to South Africa Reveals Tehran's Multipolar Diplomatic Play

How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Exposes the Fault Lines Between Dollar Hegemony and the New Monetary Order

Tokyo's Quiet Reckoning: Ishiba, Takaichi, and the Fault Lines in Japan's US-First Doctrine

The Quiet Philanthropy of the Latwogang: How a Polish Gaming Community Rewrote the Rules of Charity

Trump’s Prison Rhetoric and the 60 Minutes Manifesto Question: What the Interview Reveals About Media and Power in 2026

London Synagogue Attacks: Twenty-Six Detained as Counter-Terrorism Police Pursue Suspected Jewish Community Assaults

Iran's Strait of Hormuz Gambit: What Tehran's Offer Reveals About the Limits of Maximum Pressure

The Rename Machine: Trump, ICE, and the Politics of Linguistic Rehabilitation

Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner Was Cancelled After Gunfire. Forty-Eight Hours Later, He Wanted to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The Hormuz Gambit: How Iran's Strait Demand Is Reshaping the Nuclear Timeline

The Politics of the Survivable Bullet: Trump, Spectacle, and the Architecture of Presidential Narrative

Iran's Diplomatic Gambit: How a Peace Proposal Moved Markets From Bitcoin to Circuit Boards

When the Shooter Reads Your Name: Trump, Political Violence, and the Limits of the Tough-Guy Frame

Iran's Top Diplomat Arrives in St. Petersburg as Tehran Deepens Russia Ties

The Perpetual Campaign: How Trump Built a Presidency Out of Performance

The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting and the Politics of Resilience

Araghchi's Moscow Pilgrimage: What Iran's Diplomatic Offensive Signals for the Region

The Night the Correspondents' Dinner Became a Target: Political Violence and the Press in America

Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Tehran's Proposal and the Architecture of Gulf Deterrence

The Poland Channel: How Social Media Reshaped Charitable Giving and What It Reveals About Civic Power

Beijing's Long Game: How China Used the Trade Truce to Build Economic Leverage

Trump vs. 60 Minutes: The CBS Interview, the Shooter's Manifesto, and a President Who Decides What News Is Fit to Print

The Night the Correspondents' Dinner Became a Target: What We Know About the White House Shooting

Trump Denies Epstein Case Details as White House Dinner Shooter Confesses Targeting Him

The Bullet That Missed the Correspondents: Assassination, Spectacle, and the Fragile Architecture of American Public Life

Iran's Russia Pivot: Why Araghchi's St. Petersburg Visit Signals a Diplomatic Rupture With the West

Araghchi's Moscow Gambit: Iran Navigates a Diplomatic Maze as US Talks Stall

The durability test: King Charles, Trump, and the protocol of crisis in the US-UK special relationship

How China built an economic pressure toolkit that Trump's tariff truce can't contain

The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting and the Long Shadow of Online Harassment

Musk v. Altman: The OpenAI Trial That Will Define Silicon Valley's Future

Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Tehran Offers War-End Deal With Nuclear Silence

Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Why the Strait No One Can Afford to Lose Is Now the World's Most Dangerous Chokepoint

The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting and the Fracturing of Washington's Protective Myths

The Deal That Wasn't: How US-Iran Peace Talks Collapsed and What It Means for Oil Markets

The Last Meme: Trump, Memecoin Wealth, and the Party That Won't End

Settler Tension and the Architecture of Jerusalem's Next Crisis

The Night the Correspondents' Dinner Went Silent: What We Know and What Remains Unclear

Fragile Cities: How Property Bubbles and Urban Warfare Are Reshaping Lives from Tokyo to Kharkiv

The Surveillance Turn in Transport Policy — From Buenos Aires to Detroit, Accountability Meets Architecture

Trump's Manifesto Defense: What the WHCA Shooting Reveals About Political Theatre and Media Framing

The Ethereum Foundation's $40 Million Exit: What the 17,000 ETH Unstaking Reveals About Institutional Crypto Governance

Trump, the Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, and the Architecture of Political Response

Trump Jokes About WHCA Shooter: 'NFL Should Sign Him Up'

The Trump Shooting, the Arena of Violence, and the Normalization of Risk