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Long Reads18 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Anatomy of Coercive Diplomacy

Long Reads18 May
The Parallel Pressures: How Trump is Stacking Strategic Deterrence Against Tehran and Beijing

Long Reads18 May
Quarantine at Sea: How One Cruise Ship Outbreak Exposed Fault Lines in Maritime Health Governance

Long Reads18 May
Ebola Returns: What the Congo–Uganda Emergency Reveals About Global Health Architecture in 2026

Long Reads18 May
Japan's Fiscal Tightrope: Takaichi's Tax Freeze Stalls as Seoul Summit Looms

Long Reads18 May
The Five-Year Shadow: Why Taiwan Dominates Every US-China Conversation

Long Reads18 May
WHO's Eighth Global Health Emergency: Inside the Ebola Outbreak Reshaping DRC and Uganda

Long Reads18 May
The Twelve Points That Broke the Bloc: Eurovision, Poland, and the New Rules of Geopolitical Voting

Long Reads18 May
Pope Leo XIV and the '67' TikTok Trend: A Viral Moment That Tells a Larger Story

Long Reads18 May
The $17 Billion Question: What China's Farm-Goods Pledge Really Tells Us About the New Trade Détente

Long Reads18 May
Iran's quiet executions: inside the regime's war on dissent

Long Reads17 May
The Night Dnipro Burned: Russia's Persistent Campaign of Urban Terror

Long Reads17 May
Banzuke for the World: How Japan's Tourism Boom Is Rewriting Sumo's Global Future
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Iran Crossroads: Inside the Back-to-Back Meetings That Could Define a Second-Term Legacy

Long Reads17 May
The Commander-in-Chief's Digital Fever Dream: Trump's Truth Social Iran Posts and the New Language of American Statecraft

Long Reads17 May
The Avatar and the Ultimatum: Trump, AI Media, and the New Grammar of Coercion

Long Reads17 May
Trump's 'One Nation Under God' Rally Tests the Limits of Church and State
Long Reads17 May
The Invasion Map: What Trump's Truth Social Post Says About US Strategy on Iran
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the AI Video Problem

Long Reads17 May
Saudi Arabia Intercepts Three Drones From Iraq as US Air Assets Reposition Near Iranian Border

Long Reads17 May
The Clock Has Started: Inside the US-Israel-Iran Standoff as Strike Reports Circulate
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Truth Social Ultimatum: What the Iran Invasion Threat Means for a Fractured Nuclear Order

Long Reads17 May
Beijing's $51 Billion Farm Basket: The Dollar, the Sow, and the Geopolitics of Grain
Long Reads17 May
Dnipro Burning: Inside Russia's Escalating Shahed Campaign Against Ukrainian Cities

Long Reads17 May
Saudi Arabia Intercepts Three Drones From Iraqi Airspace — A Sign of Widening Gulf Vulnerability
Long Reads17 May
The Architecture of Coercive Diplomacy: Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Logic of Strategic Ambiguity

Long Reads17 May
The Sumo Solution: How Japan's Traditional Wrestling Balances Global Tourism and Cultural Preservation

Long Reads17 May
Israeli Strike on Baalbek Tests Fragile Ceasefire Architecture as Hezbollah Vows Continued Resistance

Long Reads17 May
The Truce and the Timeline: How Trump Rewrote the Trade War on Truth Social

Long Reads17 May
Beyond the Dohyo: How Japan's Sumo Boom Is Exposing a Cultural-Access Crisis for the World's New Tourist Class

Long Reads17 May
Two Navy Growlers Down: What the Mountain Home Mid-Air Collision Tells Us About Military Aviation Risk
Long Reads17 May
Saudi Arabia Intercepts Three Drones From Iraq: Anatomy of a Gulf Border Incident
Long Reads17 May
The Last Exit: Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Architecture of a Forced Deal
Long Reads17 May
Iranian Air Defenses in Ahvaz: Unconfirmed Reports, Verified Ambiguity
Long Reads17 May
Trump's AI Video and the Regime-Change Pitch: How Washington is Shaping Its Iran Narrative

Long Reads17 May
The Cuba Shipping Suspension and the Long Arm of Dollar Hegemony

Long Reads17 May
The Cuba Shipping Blackout: How Two Carriers Exposed the Brutal Logic of Dollar Hegemony

Long Reads17 May
WHO's Emergency Declaration on Congo-Uganda Ebola Tests a Fragile Global Health Architecture

Long Reads17 May
WHO's Ebola Emergency Declaration and the Architecture of a Global Response

Long Reads17 May
The Drone War Revolution: How Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Are Rewriting the Rules of Naval Conflict

Long Reads17 May
Pope Leo XIV and the AI Reckoning: What the Vatican Tweet Tells Us About Moral Authority in the Machine Age

Long Reads17 May
The Drone Boat Revolution: How Ukraine Redrew the Black Sea Battlefield

Long Reads17 May
The Market for Scars: Youth, Economic Anomie, and the New Arithmetic of Viral Fame

Long Reads17 May
Amazon's Tariff Reckoning: How the Jeff Bezos Dream Became a $3.5 Million Problem

Long Reads17 May
Pope Leo XIV and the Artificial Question: Can a American Pope Speak to a Fractured World?

Long Reads17 May
Inside the Trump-Netanyahu Iran Gambit and the Strike That May Never Come
Long Reads17 May
Waiting for Tehran: Trump's Iran Deal Window Is Narrowing

Long Reads17 May
Amazon, Tariffs, and the Price of Platform Power

Long Reads17 May
WHO Sounds the Alarm: Inside the Decision to Declare Ebola a Global Health Emergency
Long Reads17 May
The Situation Room and the Iran Question: What Tuesday's Briefing Actually Tells Us

Long Reads17 May
Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Olena Zelenska as NABU Dismisses Arrest Rumours
Long Reads17 May
The 500-Kilometre Threshold: How Ukraine Learned to Strike Moscow
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: Deal or Consequences
Long Reads17 May
Ukraine Strikes Moscow: What the Shift to Deep Strikes Means for the War's Future

Long Reads17 May
The Drone's Eye: How Open-Source Footage Rewrote the Rules of Conflict Reporting
Long Reads17 May
The Brinksmanship calculus: Washington, Jerusalem, and the spectre of renewed strikes on Iran

Long Reads17 May
Ebola Returns: The WHO's Quiet Declaration and the World's Unfinished Pandemic Response
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Illusion of Maximum Pressure
Long Reads17 May
Sumo, Tourism, and the Price of Tradition: Japan Wrestles With Its Fastest-Growing Export

Long Reads17 May
When Everyone Can Broadcast: The Cell Phone, the Algorithm, and the Illusion of Visibility

Long Reads17 May
The Prediction Market President: How Polymarket Became Washington's Unintended Political Barometer

Long Reads17 May
The Art of the Weakened Deal: How Beijing Read Trump and What It Reveals About Shifting Power
Long Reads17 May
Trump-Netanyahu Iran Call Exposes Fault Lines in Washington's Competing Regional Priorities
Long Reads17 May
The Island That Could Ignite the Persian Gulf: Abu Musa, Gulf Coercion, and the Logic of Escalation
Long Reads17 May
Gaza's Shadow Diplomacy: How the Iran-Qatar Channel Became the Middle East's Back-Channel

Long Reads17 May
WHO Declares Ebola Emergency: What Comes Next for Congo and Uganda

Long Reads17 May
Silent Spread: Inside the Ebola Emergency Redefining Africa's Health Future

Long Reads17 May
The New Scramble for Cultural Heritage: How France's Restitution Law Reshapes the West's Moral Authority

Long Reads17 May
Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom Rally Collapses Under Police Presence and Rival Counter-Protest
Long Reads17 May
The Sanctions Signal: Why Washington Keeps Talking Tough on China While the Deals Get Done

Long Reads17 May
Billionaire Wealth Has Doubled. Who Decides What That Means?
Long Reads17 May
Moscow's Sky Has Changed: How Ukraine's Drone Offensive Redrew the Map of the War
Long Reads17 May
Ebola Returns: Inside the Outbreak That Forced the World's Hand
Long Reads17 May
WHO's Highest Alert: Inside the Ebola Outbreak That Has Congo and Uganda on Edge
Long Reads17 May
The Silicon Bet: Why the AI Chip Race Is Also a Contest for Human Capital

Long Reads17 May
Sidon's Ceasefire: Inside the Escalation Map Redrawing Lebanon's South
Long Reads17 May
The Long Reach: How Ukraine's Domestic Drone Industry Is Rewriting the Rules of the War

Long Reads17 May
The Return of Conor McGregor: What UFC's Biggest Draw Tells Us About the Business of Combat Sports

Long Reads17 May
Hezbollah Releases Combat Footage from Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Strikes Intensify
Long Reads17 May
Lula's Multipolar Gambit: Brazil Challenges US War Plans as Global South Consolidates

Long Reads17 May
Bulgaria's Eurovision Victory Exposes the Limits of Cultural Apoliticism

Long Reads17 May
WHO's Ebola Declaration Puts Central Africa's Fragile Health Systems Back Under the Global Microscope

Long Reads17 May
The Boeing Deal and the Declining-Power Paradox: What Trump's China Gambit Actually Reveals
Long Reads17 May
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Transit System Is a geopolitical lever dressed as infrastructure
Long Reads17 May
The Sanctions Spiral: Why Washington's Latest Move on Russian Oil May Change Little

Long Reads17 May
The ICC's Secret Warrants and the Fraying Architecture of Impunity
Long Reads17 May
The Quiet Alarm: Why WHO's Ebola Declaration Demands More Than Familiar Exhaustion

Long Reads17 May
The 45-Second Window: How US-China Tariffs Became a Test of Staying Power

Long Reads17 May
The Billionaire Wealth Paradox and the Limits of Populist Economics
Long Reads17 May
The Ring Beyond the Ring: How Japan's Tourism Surge is Reshaping Sumo

Long Reads17 May
Viral Currency: How Disposable Internet Content Became the New Arena for Economic Debate
Long Reads17 May
Five Conditions and a Silence: What Tehran Heard From Washington

Long Reads17 May
Eurovision at the Crossroads: How Basel 2026 Became the Most Politically Loaded Contest in the Event's History

Long Reads17 May
The Well and the Rope: Iran Warns of Strategic Trap in US-Israel-China Triangle

Long Reads17 May
Conor McGregor Returns: The Economics and Stakes of UFC's Most Anticipated Comeback in Five Years
Long Reads17 May
500 Drones Over Russia: Ukraine's New Saturation Doctrine and the Battle for Zelenograd
Long Reads17 May
Iran's Maritime Gambit: Blockade, Multipolarity, and the Fracturing of US Regional Order

Long Reads17 May
Tourism Boom and Ticket Drought: Japan's Sumo World Confronts a New Reality

Long Reads17 May
The Burn Ban Logic: How the White House Stopped Fighting Fire With Fire
Long Reads17 May