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Long Reads19 May
Google's Agentic Gambit: How Gemini 3.5 Flash Signals a Cost-Leadership Pivot in AI
Long Reads19 May
Ten Dead Near Tire: The Civilian Calculus of Israel's Lebanon Strikes
Long Reads19 May
NATO's Hormuz Dilemma: Alliance Cohesion Meets the Strait's Oil Lifeline
Long Reads19 May
The Bunker Beneath the Ballroom: What Trump's Underground Complex Tells Us About the Presidency in Crisis
Long Reads19 May
The Drone Over Estonia and the Invisible Hand Pushing Ukraine's War Into NATO Airspace
Long Reads19 May
The Beijing-Washington Axis: What Putin's Visit to China Tells Us About the Dollar's Unraveling Order
Long Reads19 May
NATO's Hormuz calculus: when an 'assistance mission' becomes a flashpoint
Long Reads19 May
Google's Agentic Pivot: How Gemini 3.5 Flash Signals a New Phase in the AI Infrastructure Wars
Long Reads19 May
The Limits of the Partnership: What Putin's Beijing Visit Reveals and Conceals
Long Reads19 May
FBI Recovers Manifesto After Islamic Center Shooting; Investigators Cite 'Broad Hatred' in Attack Motive
Long Reads19 May
The Manifesto and the Message: What the Islamic Center Shooting Reveals About America's Reckoning with Hate
Long Reads19 May
The Geometry of a Visit: What Putin's Beijing Stop Tells Us About Sino-Russian Alignment in 2026
Long Reads19 May
Putin Lands in Beijing: What the Xi Summit Tells Us About the New Axis
Long Reads19 May
The Ballroom Bunker: What Trump's Subterranean Announcement Reveals About a Second-Term White House
Long Reads19 May
Putin in Beijing: The week Xi received two presidents and the geometry of a new order
Long Reads19 May
The Agentic Turn: How Google's Gemini Gambit Is Quietly Reshaping the AI Arms Race
Long Reads19 May
NATO's Hormuz Calculus: The Strait, the Standoff, and the Shadow of a New Maritime Front
Long Reads19 May
Google's Agentic Bet: What Gemini 3.5 Flash Signals About the Next Phase of the AI Race
Long Reads19 May
Deal or War: Vance's Iran Gambit and the Uncertainty at the Negotiating Table
Long Reads19 May
The Northern Flank Opens: How Belarus Became the Next Front in Ukraine's War
Long Reads19 May
Vance's Iran Talks Stumble Into the Familiar Ambiguity That Has Defeated Every Negotiator Since 1979
Long Reads19 May
The Art of the Deal, Reimagined: Trump, Xi, and the Fragile Architecture of US-China Relations
Long Reads19 May
The Geometry of the Beijing Summit: What Xi and Putin's Diplomatic Alignment Reveals
Long Reads19 May
The Limits of Maximum Pressure: Bessent's Iran Sanctions Push and the Domino Theory Redux
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Iran Deadline Tests Fragile Ceasefire as Israel Raises Alert to Highest Level
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Texas Gambit: Why the Paxton Endorsement Is a Party Civil War in Miniature
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Weekend Ultimatum: Decoding the Iran Deal Pressure Campaign
Long Reads19 May
Putin's Beijing Arrival Opens Window Into the Sino-Russian Entente's Durability
Long Reads19 May
The Deadline and the Portfolio: Trump, Iran, and the Geometry of Coercive Diplomacy
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: How the Nuclear Talks Became a Standoff
Long Reads19 May
Awaiting Verdict: Hong Kong's National Security Trial and the Shrinking Space for Memory
Long Reads19 May
The Weekend Ultimatum: Trump, Iran, and the Credibility Trap
Long Reads19 May
Putin Arrives in Beijing for Two-Day Visit as China Reaffirms 'Old Friend' Ties
Long Reads19 May
Putin Lands in Beijing: The Geometry of an Undivided Partnership
Long Reads19 May
Beijing's Diplomatic Double: How Xi's Putin Visit Tightens the Eurasian Knot
Long Reads19 May
The Beijing Calculus: Putin's Visit and the Architecture of an Unaligned World
Long Reads19 May
The Beijing Package: Why Putin's China Visit Matters More Than Trump's Did
Long Reads19 May
Japan and South Korea Find Uncommon Ground in Andong
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: Inside the 72-Hour Clock That Has the Middle East on Edge
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Iran Calculus: Market Risk, Nuclear Dust, and the Diplomacy Window
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: Deal or Strike — and What It Tells Us About the Architecture of Coercion
Long Reads19 May
The Hour Before War: Trump, Personalised Deterrence, and the Gamification of Iran Strike Rhetoric
Long Reads19 May
The Drone Corridor: How Hezbollah Redefined the Rules of Engagement Along Lebanon's Southern Border
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Unconventional Statecraft: The Ballroom, the Tariffs, and the Trading Floor
Long Reads19 May
The Strike Near Tyre: What the Attack on Lebanon's Italian Hospital Tells Us About the Rules of War
Long Reads19 May
Treasury's New Iran Sanctions: Financial Pressure or Policy Inertia?
Long Reads19 May
Gulf Shield: Inside the UAE-Israel Defence Partnership Reshaping Middle East Security
Long Reads19 May
Trump's Divide-and-Conquer Miscalculation: How Tariff Pressure Backfired on Beijing and Moscow
Long Reads19 May
The Narrative Battlefield: How Western Media Frames Iran's Conflict — and What Gets Lost
Long Reads19 May
Musk v. OpenAI: What the Jury Didn't Decide
Long Reads19 May
The Broker in the Middle: What Xi's Putin Meeting Tells Us About Beijing's Geopolitical Calculus
Long Reads19 May
How Beijing is managing an economy in multiple transition at once
Long Reads19 May
The Choreography of Beijing's Balancing Act
Long Reads19 May
Iran's Dual Signal: Overture and Warning From the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads19 May
Showroom to Stream: How Chinese Auto CEOs Became Influencers
Long Reads19 May
Inside the Escalation: How the Israel-Hezbollah Border Conflict Reached a New Intensity
Long Reads19 May
Iran's Warning and the Limits of Diplomatic Time
Long Reads19 May
Northern Israel Struck by Lebanon Drone: What the Strike Tells Us About Shifting Frontline Dynamics
Long Reads19 May
Drone Strike Near Lebanon Border Exposes Deeper Pattern of Israeli Territorial Consolidation
Long Reads19 May
The Art of the Ultimatum: How Washington and Tehran Are Talking Past Each Other Toward a Crisis
Long Reads19 May
The Iran Deal is Dead. Now What?
Long Reads19 May
Standard Chartered Joins Global Banking Sector's AI Reshuffle as WHO Emergency Committee Convenes on Ebola
Long Reads19 May
NATO's First Drone Interception Over Estonia Exposes the Blurry Front Line of Electronic Warfare
Long Reads19 May
The Promise Nobody Can Keep: Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Geography of Empty Alliances
Long Reads19 May
The $35 Million Primary: AIPAC's Largest Test of Incumbent Power
Long Reads19 May
The Strategic Sequence: Why Beijing Chose to Host Putin Immediately After Trump
Long Reads19 May
When Efficiency Meets Epidemic: How AI-Driven Restructuring and Global Health Emergencies Exposed the Same Structural Fragility
Long Reads19 May
Irish President's Sister Arrested as Israeli Navy Intercepts Gaza Aid Flotilla
Long Reads19 May
Beijing's Double: How Xi's Putin Reunion Reshapes the Post-Trump Diplomatic Landscape
Long Reads19 May
India's Russian oil bet: how New Delhi is testing the limits of Western sanctions
Long Reads19 May
Drone Shadows and Courtrooms: The Two-Front Pressure Closing on Netanyahu
Long Reads19 May
The Algorithm and the Ledger: Standard Chartered's AI Gambit Reshapes the Future of Banking Labor
Long Reads19 May
Iran's Nuclear Gambit: How Tehran Turned Washington's Strike Threat Into a Diplomatic Opening
Long Reads19 May
Beijing's Balancing Act: How China's Economic Recalibration Is Reshaping Its Global Footprint
Long Reads19 May
Putin in Beijing: What the Xi Meeting Signals About the New Geopolitical Calculus
Long Reads19 May
Iran Reopens After 80 Days: Economic Siege and the Making of a Garrison State
Long Reads19 May
Putin's Beijing Gambit: Russia Deepens China Ties as Western Isolation Deepens
Long Reads19 May
Iran Mobilises Air Defence Over Qeshm as Drone Incursion Tests Regional Tensions
Long Reads19 May
The Wheat War Nobody Planned: How Australia's Breadbasket Became a Casualty of the Iran Conflict
Long Reads19 May
Taiwan Parliament Fails to Impeach President Lai as Regional Warning Lights Flash
Long Reads19 May
The Jury Spoke. The Money Moved. What the OpenAI Verdict Tells Us About Silicon Valley's Accountability Gap
Long Reads19 May
Korea's Cultural Reckoning: How Starbucks Fumbled History and KB Financial Stepped Into the Digital Future
Long Reads19 May
The Diplomatic Spiral: Inside Trump's Iran Pause and What Comes Next
Long Reads19 May
Trump Pauses Iran Strikes After Gulf Leaders Intervened. The Real Story Is Their Newfound Leverage Over Washington.
Long Reads19 May
Cuba's 'Bloodbath' Warning and the Long Shadow of US Sanctions Policy
Long Reads19 May
The Su-57 and the Sanctions Waiver: Reading Russia's Competing Signals
Long Reads19 May
The Yen Is Eating Japan's Secondhand Cars
Long Reads19 May
Marcos Jr.'s Crossfire: How Manila Is Navigating the Taiwan Strait squeeze
Long Reads19 May
Minnesota's Divergent Path: Sanctuary Politics and Crypto Innovation in the Age of Mass Deportation
Long Reads19 May
Oil in the Balance: How Washington Quietly Ceded Control of the Russian Crude Market
Long Reads19 May
Japan-Korea Thaw Gains a Financial Backbone
Long Reads19 May
Musk's OpenAI Trial: A Jury Said He Filed Too Late. The Bigger Fight Is Just Beginning
Long Reads19 May
Trump's War of Words: Military Pressure, Diplomatic Silence, and the Widening Energy Crisis
Long Reads19 May
Google and Blackstone's $5 Billion AI Bet — and What It Tells Us About the Infrastructure Race No One Is Talking About
Long Reads19 May
Risk-On Is Dead: How the US-Iran Showdown Is Rewriting the Rules of Markets and Political Loyalty
Long Reads19 May
Japan's Second-Hand Export Boom: How a Weakened Yen Turned Used Cars into a Geopolitical Weapon
Long Reads19 May
Ebola Returns to the Headlines: What the Latest Outbreak Tells Us About Global Health Architecture
Long Reads19 May
The Quiet Architecture of the New US-China Equilibrium
Long Reads19 May
The Unraveling of the Permanent Joint Board: How Washington Just Broke 80 Years of North American Defense Architecture
Long Reads18 May