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Long Reads05 Jul
Netanyahu Sets Disarmament Floor for Gaza Reconstruction, Presses Leaders on Quiet Support
Long Reads05 Jul
A red card, a phone call, and the question of who runs world football
Long Reads05 Jul
Yemen and Iran move to coordinate around the siege of Sana'a, and the blockade stakes climb
Long Reads05 Jul
Netanyahu's Lebanon annexation claim meets a flat denial from the villages he cited
Long Reads05 Jul
An Iraqi funeral, an absent martyr, and the choreography of Shia armed diplomacy
Long Reads05 Jul
Two views of Europe, and the question neither can answer
Long Reads05 Jul
The helicopter that fell near Anefis: how the Tuareg ambush redraws Russia's African footprint
Long Reads05 Jul
Netanyahu's 'excellent relationship' line lands on a White House that has stopped asking
Long Reads05 Jul
Two deaths, one border: how South Africa's anti-migrant wave is reshaping Nigeria's diplomatic posture
Long Reads05 Jul
The prediction market economy is here. The summer weekend that proved it.
Long Reads05 Jul
France's Heat, the World Cup, and the Markets Pricing Both
Long Reads05 Jul
A Farewell, a Funeral, and a Warning: Reading Tehran's Mass Mourning for Khamenei
Long Reads05 Jul
Ukraine lays the groundwork for Swedish Gripen fighters as Russia keeps up the drone tempo
Long Reads05 Jul
Tehran's Quiet Funeral and a Loud Lawsuit: The Power Vacuum Behind Khamenei's Successor
Long Reads05 Jul
A 250th birthday, a campaign stop, and the question of who owns the pageantry
Long Reads05 Jul
Trump's Fourth of July: A Two-Theatre Flex Reshapes the Week's News Cycle
Long Reads05 Jul
The $250 Bill Question: How Polymarket's Odds Reveal the Real State of the American Republic
Long Reads05 Jul
A destroyer called Kang Kon: what North Korea's warship test really signals
Long Reads05 Jul
Strikes on Crimea airfield and Donetsk bridges: Ukraine's campaign to dismantle Russian logistics enters a new tempo
Long Reads05 Jul
Iraq's Shiite elite turns out for Khamenei: a funeral that doubles as a foreign-policy signal
Long Reads05 Jul
Tehran fills the Mosalla: a leadership transition staged as a national rite
Long Reads05 Jul
Tehran's farewell to Khamenei, Washington's brief ceasefire, and a funeral that doubles as a warning
Long Reads05 Jul
The funeral in Tehran: what the Khamenei succession picture is actually showing
Long Reads05 Jul
Tehran's Grand Mosalla and the choreography of a succession
Long Reads05 Jul
A Quarter-Millennium on the Mall: How Trump Used America's 250th to Recast the Founding
Long Reads05 Jul
Khamenei funeral becomes a contested stage: succession, grief and the political road ahead
Long Reads05 Jul
Tehran's Farewell: Inside the Ceremonial Theatre That Frames Khamenei's Succession
Long Reads05 Jul
Kenya’s coalition clock keeps ticking: what is actually stalling the ODM–UDA dialogue
Long Reads05 Jul
Iran's Khamenei funeral at Mosalla: a contested succession begins
Long Reads05 Jul
Inside the $4.4bn Trump memecoin windfall: how a presidential brand became a financial instrument
Long Reads05 Jul
South Korea’s tungsten bet: de-risking from Beijing without leaving it
Long Reads05 Jul
Mourning the 'Imam Mujahid': What Iran's State Funeral for Khamenei Reveals About Succession, Legitimacy, and the Regional Order
Long Reads05 Jul
A bloody Fourth: how US mass shootings travel through foreign state media
Long Reads05 Jul
The Tehran Mourning: How a Funeral Became a Stage for an Axis of Confrontation
Long Reads05 Jul
Inside Information at the White House: How Trump's Family Trades Public Disclosure for Private Profit
Long Reads05 Jul
A martyr's farewell in central Tehran: reading Iran's ritualised grief as state signal
Long Reads05 Jul
A Birthday, a Signature, and a Presidency on the Currency: The Politics of America's 250th
Long Reads05 Jul
The Shroud and the Greenback: Reading Two Augurs in a Noisy July Week
Long Reads05 Jul
An 85-minute phone call and the strange grammar of a 250th-anniversary congratulation
Long Reads05 Jul
Tokenising the President: Inside the 8% market on a Trump $250 bill
Long Reads05 Jul
Iran buries its Supreme Leader: succession, legitimacy and the architecture of regional power
Long Reads05 Jul
The three fronts of a fractured week: Ukrainian rear-guard losses, the TRUMP token windfall, and a prediction market on presidential mercy
Long Reads05 Jul
Mbappé's penalty lifts France past Paraguay and into a Morocco quarter-final that carries its own weight
Long Reads05 Jul
A Birthday Phone Call and the Quiet Reordering of the Ukraine File
Long Reads05 Jul
Storms, a stage and a recalibrated script: how weather reshaped Trump's July 4th address
Long Reads05 Jul
Strait of Hormuz as leverage: inside Iran's calibrated threat to charge transit fees on the world's busiest oil chokepoint
Long Reads05 Jul
A 4 July phone call, a 30% Polymarket line, and the slow architecture of a Trump–Putin summit
Long Reads05 Jul
Japan Raises the Cost of Staying: Residency Fees, Language Tests, and a Quiet Turn on Immigration
Long Reads05 Jul
The $636 Million Memo: How a Meme Coin Became a Presidential Tell
Long Reads05 Jul
Iran's Funeral Diplomacy: How Tehran Uses Verse and Procedence to Read the Region
Long Reads04 Jul
Mbappé's Penalty Sends France Past Paraguay and Into a Morocco Quarterfinal
Long Reads04 Jul
A 250th birthday, a Mount Rushmore speech, and a Treasury that now reads like a campaign
Long Reads04 Jul
Khamenei's funeral and the choreography of an Iranian succession
Long Reads04 Jul
Ukraine's sea line: how interceptor drones became Kyiv's coastal shield
Long Reads04 Jul
The Long Fourth: Three Snapshots of an America That Keeps Returning to Itself
Long Reads04 Jul
"War with America": Tehran's street mood and the social contract the regime can no longer deliver
Long Reads04 Jul
Iran's long goodbye: what Khamenei's funeral tells us about the succession fight already underway
Long Reads04 Jul
Half-lit in Old Glory: America at 250 and the Argument Over Its Own Meaning
Long Reads04 Jul
Patriot missiles, press shields, and the tokenisation question: three fault lines running through 4 July 2026
Long Reads04 Jul
Trump and Netanyahu Set for White House Meeting as Advisers Privately Fault the Israeli Prime Minister
Long Reads04 Jul
At Mount Rushmore, Trump Reopens America's Longest Culture War
Long Reads04 Jul
Iran Floats Tiered Passage Through Hormuz, Putting Beijing in a Privileged Lane
Long Reads04 Jul
The IMF's Tokenization Warning and the Press-Freedom Test Before the Supreme Court: Two July 4 Signals About Power, Transparency, and the Next Financial Architecture
Long Reads04 Jul
Tokenised Money on the Ledger: IMF Sounds the Alarm as Wall Street Reshapes Itself Around Stablecoins
Long Reads04 Jul
Iran's Hormuz fee gambit puts Beijing in the cross-hairs of a maritime order being written in real time
Long Reads04 Jul
Eight Months On, Kenya's Examinations Teachers Are Still Waiting to Be Paid — and the Boycott Threat Is Now Credible
Long Reads04 Jul
A Ukrainian City in Daylight: What the Russian Strikes of 4 July 2026 Reveal About Moscow's Summer Calculus
Long Reads04 Jul
Madison Square Garden, Madison Avenue: What Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Wedding Says About the New Economics of Celebrity
Long Reads04 Jul
Tehran Courts the Sahel and the Congo Basin: How Iran Is Recasting Its Africa Ties
Long Reads04 Jul
India's Internet Has Matured Faster Than Its Reading Public — And Publishers Are Now Paying the Cost
Long Reads04 Jul
Iran declares Sunday a national holiday for farewell to Khamenei as succession question moves to the front of the room
Long Reads04 Jul
The hedge that wasn't: middle powers, US-China rivalry, and the polite fiction of staying neutral
Long Reads04 Jul
A pontiff on the shore: Lampedusa and the message Europe cannot quite hear
Long Reads04 Jul
Four Flashpoints, One Day: How July 3–4 2026 Set the Tone for the Second Half
Long Reads04 Jul
Chants in a Tehran Metro: What the Shahid Beheshti Videos Reveal About Iran's Wartime Posture
Long Reads04 Jul
The Safety Net in the Ledger: How Tokenization, Housing Stalls, and Harm-Reduction Approvals Are Quietly Rewriting the State's Protective Floor
Long Reads04 Jul
Trump Accounts and the 250th: How the White House Turned a Birthday Into a Balance Sheet
Long Reads04 Jul
A week off for a funeral: Trump, the Khamenei succession, and the choreography of a US-Iran de-escalation
Long Reads04 Jul
The Strait of Hormuz as Leverage: Iran's Fee Gambit and the New Geometry of Gulf Power
Long Reads04 Jul
Mount Rushmore, 2026: Trump's 250th-anniversary speech turns the founding story into a campaign weapon
Long Reads04 Jul
Trump's 250th-birthday playbook: pardons, AI hands-off, and a war on the domestic 'enemy'
Long Reads04 Jul
The Yield-Seeking Pivot: How African Agritech, Tokenised Collateral and US Housing Stagnation Are Quietly Rewriting the Map of Patient Capital
Long Reads04 Jul
Drones over Sadiqin: the southern Lebanon frontier after the November ceasefire
Long Reads04 Jul
Anefis falls: the armed groups tightening the noose around Mali's military junta
Long Reads04 Jul
A wedding, a venue, and a question about scale: what the Madison Square Garden ceremony tells us about celebrity capital in 2026
Long Reads04 Jul
Ghana exits the World Cup and lands on a familiar question: what does African football build next?
Long Reads04 Jul
Kenyan Livestock Entrepreneur Maria Takes Centre Stage as IMF Sounds Alarm Over Tokenised Finance
Long Reads04 Jul
The $20 Million Wedding, the Prediction Market, and the Globalisation of Taylor Swift
Long Reads04 Jul
Diasporic grief and the politics of mourning: Iran’s farewell and the rallies of ‘4 July’
Long Reads04 Jul
Trump’s Iran Negotiation Theatre: A One-Week ‘Funeral Pause’ and the Limits of ‘Dying to Settle’
Long Reads04 Jul
Generation Z and the Pension Crisis: Why Young Workers Are Walking Away from a System Their Parents Inherited
Long Reads04 Jul
Trump's 250th-anniversary rhetoric reframes the culture war as a midterm instrument
Long Reads04 Jul
Tokenization Reaches the IMF — and the Safety Net Conversation It Kicks Open
Long Reads04 Jul
The Pay-Raise Paradox: Why More Money Is Making Kenyan Households Sicker
Long Reads04 Jul
Patriotism as state brand: Trump, the 250th, and the new American symbolic economy
Long Reads04 Jul
The Steady Hand and the Waiting Storm: What a Quiet Independence Day Tells Us About the End of an Empire
Long Reads04 Jul
Passports, banknotes, and a pardon market: how one figure is rewriting American state iconography
Long Reads04 Jul
Iran's farewell for the 'Imam of the Ummah': what the state funeral apparatus tells us about succession
Long Reads04 Jul
Iran's Funeral Politics and the Dollar's Long Shadow: A Week When Three Fronts Closed at Once
Long Reads04 Jul