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Long Reads21 Jul
Fairlife, the Anubis gang, and the new shape of food-and-beverage ransomware
Long Reads21 Jul
Two billion dollars a day: the Strait of Hormuz dispute and the limits of US power projection
Long Reads21 Jul
Drones over Kuwait: what the 21 July air-defence alert tells us about Iran's escalation calculus
Long Reads21 Jul
When the model breaks out: Inside OpenAI's "unprecedented cyber incident" and what it means for frontier-lab governance
Long Reads21 Jul
London opens the bases: how a new prime minister put British soil back inside an Iran strike
Long Reads21 Jul
The Prediction Market Goes Long on Metal
Long Reads21 Jul
The thirty meetings: how the Gates Foundation answered for Epstein
Long Reads21 Jul
'We didn't start this war': Hegseth's Iran pitch and the rhetoric of unfinished escalation
Long Reads21 Jul
Zelenskyy swaps his top general: what the Drapatyi appointment actually changes
Long Reads21 Jul
The desalination question: what Trump's Iran rhetoric on 21 July 2026 actually tells us
Long Reads21 Jul
Hegseth asks Congress for $1.5 trillion, then blames Biden for the $500 billion shortfall
Long Reads21 Jul
Zelensky's general: Drapatyi takes command of Ukraine's army at a moment the war is changing shape
Long Reads21 Jul
Trump opens the gate to Beirut: an airline détente and a Lebanon war the White House cannot quite explain
Long Reads21 Jul
Trump's tariff week: Lebanon flights, a tariff cliff, and a Tate extradition appeal collide
Long Reads21 Jul
Beirut opens for American carriers: what Trump’s Lebanon flight order actually changes
Long Reads21 Jul
Syrskyi out? The thin evidence behind Ukraine's loudest rumour of the summer
Long Reads21 Jul
Warning shots on the Blue Line: how a quiet Mediterranean frontier turned into the next flashpoint
Long Reads21 Jul
Forty percent and a fault line: what Americans actually told pollsters about AI
Long Reads21 Jul
Justice Department subpoenas for journalists' family phone records expose the limits of press freedom in a securitised state
Long Reads21 Jul
When the Roll Calls Don't Add Up: A New Jersey Registration Error and the Quiet Politics of Voter-Roll Integrity
Long Reads21 Jul
Drones over Erbil: how an Iraqi strike became a US evacuation
Long Reads21 Jul
Tariffs, treaties, and taunts: the Trump second-term trade doctrine takes shape in a single news cycle
Long Reads21 Jul
Trump's Iran ultimatum: the week the threat became infrastructure
Long Reads21 Jul
Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement lands. The IPO is the real headline.
Long Reads21 Jul
Two tankers, one blockade, one presidential shrug: the Red Sea returns to the front page
Long Reads21 Jul
Sanctions, AI, and the new perimeter of US-China competition
Long Reads21 Jul
Red Sea on a hair trigger: Trump's warning to the Houthis and the shipping lane nobody can insure
Long Reads21 Jul
Trump opens a second front with Iran while Lebanon's president walks into the Oval Office
Long Reads21 Jul
Saudis learn the cost of ignoring Yemen: two tankers, one corridor, and the geography of coercion
Long Reads21 Jul
Trump to reporters on Iran: 'They haven't seen anything yet'
Long Reads21 Jul
India’s AI hackathon, a Maruti price hike, and a plastic-currency proposal: three signals from a country rewriting its own industrial playbook
Long Reads21 Jul
Houthis tighten the Red Sea and the White House shrugs: six ships turned back, Trump says 'we’ll see what happens'
Long Reads21 Jul
The Long Hello: How AI Anxiety, a Telegram Wallet, and a Doctor's Warning Collide in One Week of Summer
Long Reads21 Jul
Nearly 500 press violations in six months: the cost of reporting Gaza
Long Reads21 Jul
Saudi crude exports hit a multi-year low as a Houthi blockade rewrites Red Sea risk pricing
Long Reads21 Jul
Iran strikes Kuwait: how a missile barrage on a Gulf monarchy redraws the regional map
Long Reads21 Jul
Sirens in Kuwait and Bahrain: What an Iran-Aligned Strike Across Two Gulf Capitals Tells Us
Long Reads21 Jul
When the inference check arrives before the regulation: how AI sentiment, zero-knowledge identity and the cost of cooling are quietly redrawing the Ukrainian summer
Long Reads21 Jul
One shot, one pilot zone: how a morning's gunfire in southern Lebanon redrew the line between Beirut and Tel Aviv
Long Reads21 Jul
Trump's Blanket Shield for Netanyahu Tests the Limits of US-Israel Political Theatre
Long Reads21 Jul
A US soldier dies in Erbil, and the controlled-detonation story starts to bend
Long Reads21 Jul
Fire near a flag: how a single Lebanese border village became the next flashpoint
Long Reads21 Jul
Israeli fire halts Lebanese troop deployment in south Lebanon border town
Long Reads21 Jul
Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright deal: the bill for AI's reading habit has arrived
Long Reads21 Jul
The Atlantic's longest crossing: how 144 deaths off Mauritania redraw the Sahel migration map
Long Reads21 Jul
Eight dead in two Gaza strikes: a morning, a pattern, a question the casualty ledger cannot answer
Long Reads21 Jul
Mariupol's burning fuel depot and the shape of a grinding war
Long Reads21 Jul
The Houthis just put a price on Saudi crude. The bill lands in London and Singapore.
Long Reads21 Jul
America's oil piggy bank is breaking: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at its lowest since 1983
Long Reads21 Jul
Iran's Opening Gambit: Why a Parliament Speaker's Diplomatic Turn Matters
Long Reads21 Jul
The $9 Billion World Cup: What FIFA's Haul Says About the Future of the Global Sports Economy
Long Reads21 Jul
The 50 percent stamp: how Trump's Canada tariff shock reopens a trade corridor he once closed
Long Reads21 Jul
India's Twin Stress Tests: A Student March on Parliament and a Currency Made of Plastic
Long Reads21 Jul
Pet owners reach for the fridge as a heatwave settles over eastern China
Long Reads21 Jul
The Gazan toll the world stopped counting: a family of six, a number that keeps moving
Long Reads21 Jul
The waiting room as a verdict: Italian healthcare's regional split, the AI anxiety underneath it
Long Reads21 Jul
Iran widens the map: missiles at Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, and the limits of a US posture built on Gulf bases
Long Reads21 Jul
The July That Reshuffled Three Tables: Iran Calculus, Canadian Steel, and the Netanyahu Question
Long Reads21 Jul
FIFA's $15 billion World Cup: what the record take means for the world's most-watched event
Long Reads21 Jul
Kfar Tebnit and the long tail of Israel's southern Lebanon campaign
Long Reads21 Jul
Ortega's Nicaragua just shut the door on elections
Long Reads21 Jul
Taipei's drills, Beijing's chips: the slow-motion architecture of a Taiwan crisis
Long Reads21 Jul
The self-driving pitch that is trying to rescue the EV boom
Long Reads21 Jul
Strait of Hormuz in the Crosshairs: What Iran's Blockade Threat Really Means
Long Reads21 Jul
Burnham's first 36 hours: a VAT cut, a 'ten-year' pledge, and a Labour party he still has to convince
Long Reads21 Jul
Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement sets a price on training data
Long Reads21 Jul
Moomoo's Tokyo Test: How a Chinese-Backed Broker Is Forcing Japan's Financial Gate Open
Long Reads21 Jul
A Blackout in Crimea, a Tariff on Canada, and a 40% Anxiety Index: Three Wires for a Single July
Long Reads21 Jul
Iran's pension queues and CENTCOM's July toll: reading two mid-summer signals from a slow week
Long Reads21 Jul
France’s under-15 social media ban lands a committee vote. The harder fight is the one it doesn’t start.
Long Reads21 Jul
VAT off the bill: Andy Burnham's first 48 hours at Number 10
Long Reads21 Jul
Strait of Hormuz, 21 July 2026: what the IRGC's Kuwait strikes and tanker fires actually tell us
Long Reads21 Jul
Ortega's End of Elections: How Nicaragua Crossed the Line From Autocracy to Dynastic Rule
Long Reads21 Jul
Five Threads, One Week: How Trump's Trade War, Iran Strikes, and the World Cup Bid Map a Single Doctrine
Long Reads21 Jul
The Houthis just closed the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. The insurance market heard it first
Long Reads21 Jul
Bangkok's Beijing turn: how China's high-rise pig farms became the silk road's quietest export
Long Reads21 Jul
Civil rights groups sue Trump administration over childcare funding freeze triggered by influencer video
Long Reads21 Jul
Europe's winter runway: how a US-Iran war is rewriting the gas map
Long Reads21 Jul
America's receding umbrella: Trump, the UN, and a week that reset three relationships at once
Long Reads21 Jul
South Korea's chip hub, South Africa's SIM ID: two sovereign bets on the next decade
Long Reads21 Jul
CENTCOM's midnight announcement and the Iran file nobody can verify
Long Reads21 Jul
The 50 Percent Tariff: How a Tuesday-Night Trade Shot Is Rewriting the US-Canada Bargain
Long Reads21 Jul
Washington's Worldwide Caution: The State Department's Global Warning and the Long Shadow of a West Asia on Edge
Long Reads21 Jul
Australia's strange week: a politician, a dog, and a one-in-15-million birth
Long Reads21 Jul
Kuwait blasts break a Gulf quiet, and the questions stack up fast
Long Reads21 Jul
Sana'a reopens the file: Yemen's blockade warning puts Riyadh back in a corner it thought it had walked out of
Long Reads21 Jul
The FBI in Moscow: What a Patel Trip to Russia Would Mean
Long Reads21 Jul
The $1.65 trillion that isn't on the balance sheet
Long Reads21 Jul
Burnham takes 10 Downing Street with a 10-year plan, and a Britain that, in his own words, 'has not been good enough'
Long Reads21 Jul
Sulaymaniyah wakes to blasts: what we know, what we don't, and what an Iraq–Iran shadow war looks like in 2026
Long Reads21 Jul
A $110 billion marriage on hold: the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger and the new antitrust front
Long Reads21 Jul
50 percent and counting: Trump's selective tariff wall lands on Canada
Long Reads21 Jul
A tanker, a projectile, and the corridor that carries a fifth of the world's oil
Long Reads21 Jul
Tehran names Arifjan: Iran's missile salvo at a US base in Kuwait, and the limits of denial
Long Reads20 Jul
Strikes on Chabahar, Konarak and Isfahan hit Iran on the eve of a Geneva accord
Long Reads20 Jul
A Burnham Cabinet, a Hormuz Call, and the Quiet Recalibration of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
Long Reads20 Jul
Fifty percent and counting: how Trump's latest tariff salvo resets the US-Canada trade corridor
Long Reads20 Jul
Strait of Hormuz, Downing Street: A Two-Theatre Crisis Reorders Western Politics
Long Reads20 Jul
Fifty percent on the table: Trump reopens the Canada–U.S. trade war with a single signature
Long Reads20 Jul