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Long Reads17 May
The Stablecoin Gambit: How Russia Is Building a Financial Lifeline as Energy Sanctions Bite
Long Reads17 May
Iran's Naval Blockade and the Industrial Supply Shock Reshaping Middle East Geometry
Long Reads17 May
Russia's Drone War: How Mass Aerial Bombardment Is Reshaping the Battlefield
Long Reads17 May
The Deal That Wasn't: How Trump's Iran Strategy Collided With Beijing
Long Reads17 May
WHO Declares Congo Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency — What Comes Next
Long Reads17 May
Fire Consumes Heritage at Historic Japanese Temple as Digital Documentation Outpaces Official Response
Long Reads17 May
Fire Devastates Iconic Japanese Temple, Raising Questions About Heritage Protection in an Age of Fiscal Constraint
Long Reads17 May
500 Drones and the New Calculus of Ukrainian Long-Range Strike
Long Reads17 May
The Widening Gyre: How Concentrated Wealth Is Fuelling Global Discontent
Long Reads17 May
Beijing's War on Deserts: How Technology Tested on the Moon's Far Side Became a Tool Against Land Degradation
Long Reads17 May
China's AI Legislation Push: What Beijing's Regulatory Blueprint Tells Us About the Coming Tech Order
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Venezuela Joke Exposes the Chaos Engine of American Rhetoric
Long Reads17 May
The 500-Drone Salvo: How Ukraine Redrew the Calculus of the Conflict
Long Reads17 May
The Trade War That Wasn't: Inside the Contradictory Accounts of the Trump-Xi Summit
Long Reads17 May
India's Silicon Gambit: Tata, ASML, and the High-Stakes Race to Build the Subcontinent's First Semiconductor Fab
Long Reads17 May
Kenya's Senate Sounds the Alarm on County Fiscal Governance — and the Stakes Couldn't Be Higher
Long Reads17 May
WHO's Ebola Emergency Declaration Exposes the Fault Lines in Global Health Architecture
Long Reads17 May
The Tourism Reckoning: Why Goa Is Losing What Japan Is Winning
Long Reads17 May
WHO Declares Ebola Emergency as Africa Again Tests Global Health Architecture
Long Reads17 May
India Bets on Silicon: Inside the Tata-ASML Semiconductor Gambit
Long Reads17 May
Inside the Drone War on Moscow: Civilian Casualties, Escalation, and the New Geometry of the Ukraine Conflict
Long Reads17 May
The Automation of Judgment: How AI Agents Are Reshaping High-Skilled Finance
Long Reads17 May
The Frozen Front: Why the Ukraine War May Outlast Every Peace Plan
Long Reads17 May
The Cartoons Trump Does Not Bring Home
Long Reads17 May
The Nuclear Threshold at Sea: How Floating Reactors Are Rewriting Maritime Law
Long Reads17 May
Bangaranga: How Bulgaria Finally Won Eurovision
Long Reads17 May
The Gates Exit: What the Foundation's Microsoft Divestment Signals About Institutional Tech Positioning
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Endorsement Revocation Threatens Boebert's Political Survival in Colorado's 4th District
Long Reads17 May
The Dissenter: How One Israeli-American Historian Became a Symbol of Zionism's Crisis
Long Reads17 May
The Soybean Signal: What Beijing's Farm Purchases Tell Us About the New Geometry of US-China Competition
Long Reads17 May
The New Arithmetic of Eurovision: How a Song Contest Became a Geopolitical Battleground
Long Reads17 May
Venezuela's Alex Saab Extradition Signals a Maduro Regime Under Pressure
Long Reads17 May
Bulgaria Wins Eurovision 2026. The Politics Followed Anyway.
Long Reads17 May
Bulgaria's First Eurovision Win and the Geopolitics the Contest Tries to Hide
Long Reads17 May
The Containment Gap: WHO's Emergency Declaration and the Persistent Fragility of Africa's Outbreak Response Architecture
Long Reads17 May
China's Long Game After the Tariff Truce
Long Reads17 May
The Price of Dissent: Thomas Massie, Trump, and the Republican Funding Crackdown
Long Reads17 May
The Last Republican Who Didn't Owe Trump Anything
Long Reads17 May
Taiwan's sovereignty declaration exposes the limits of Trump's transactional Asia doctrine
Long Reads17 May
Trump's Beijing Reset: Deals Done, Questions Open
Long Reads16 May
The Night Bulgaria Won Eurovision—and the Geopolitics Won Too
Long Reads16 May
Bangaranga and the Ballot Box: How Bulgaria's Eurovision Victory Exposed the Limits of the Boycott
Long Reads16 May
Starmer's Reported Exit and the Labour Party's Fracture Line
Long Reads16 May
The Broker's Gambit: How China Is Recalibrating Its Role as a Diplomatic Power
Long Reads16 May
Trump's Beijing Reset: Commerce, Compliments, and the Taiwan Question That Won't Go Away
Long Reads16 May
Ceasefire in tatters: Inside the collapse of the Israel-Hezbollah truce
Long Reads16 May
Trump's Beijing Bargain: What the Xi Summit Actually Delivered—and What It Didn't
Long Reads16 May
Hezbollah Claims Four Bulldozer Strikes in Single Day as Israel-Lebanon Border Tensions Mount
Long Reads16 May
The Calm Before: Decoding Trump's Cryptic Storm Warning
Long Reads16 May
Hezbollah's Precision Escalation: Drone Strikes and the New Calculus on Israel's Northern Border
Long Reads16 May
Modena Attack Tests Europe's Framework for Labeling Urban Violence
Long Reads16 May
The Beit Shemesh Blast and the Transparency Paradox in Israel's Defense Sector
Long Reads16 May
Iranian State Media and the Soft-Power Play of Covering a Jerusalem Explosion
Long Reads16 May
Theatrical Diplomacy and the Void Behind It: What Trump's Beijing Visit Actually Produced
Long Reads16 May
Tokyo's Quiet Rerouting: How Japan Kept the Lights On While Diplomats Circled
Long Reads16 May
The Architecture of Concentrated Wealth
Long Reads16 May
The Signal and the Spectacle: Iranian State TV's Military Broadcasts as Strategic Communication
Long Reads16 May
The Propaganda of Reciprocity: How Fox News and Xi Jinping Are Playing the Same Game
Long Reads16 May
The Flag and the Fire: How Tehran Uses State Media as an Escalation Instrument
Long Reads16 May
The Divergence: How Elite Wealth Outpaced the Life That Didn't Follow
Long Reads16 May
The Queen of Rome: How Elina Svitolina Turned a Tennis Final Into a Statement of Resolve
Long Reads16 May
The Chair and the Summit: What Trump's Beijing Visit Reveals About Personal Diplomacy
Long Reads16 May
The Golani Death: What an Officer’s Fall Tells Us About Israel’s Lebanon Calculus
Long Reads16 May
The Algorithm of Absurdity: How Viral Media Rewrites the Geography of News
Long Reads16 May
The Tariff Détente: What the Xi-Trump Agreement Actually Signals
Long Reads16 May
The Armchair and the Order Book: What Trump's China Visit Actually Delivered
Long Reads16 May
The Al-Wahda Strike: Civilian Vehicles, Urban Warfare, and the Contested Geometry of Gaza Airstrikes
Long Reads16 May
Trump's China Visit Produces Boeing Jets and a Stalemate — Nothing More
Long Reads16 May
The New American Transactionalism: Three Flashpoints, One Philosophy
Long Reads16 May
Putin's Passport Play: What Simplified Russian Citizenship for Transnistria Tells Us About Moscow's Intentions
Long Reads16 May
The Lavan Gambit: Washington Presses the UAE Toward a Risky Iran Confrontation
Long Reads16 May
Israel Kills Hamas Military Chief as Ceasefire Architecture Crumbles Across Three Fronts
Long Reads16 May
Malta's AI Gamble: What OpenAI's Deal Tells Us About the Future of Digital Statecraft
Long Reads16 May
Putin lands in Beijing: What the Chinese handshake means for the post-Atlantic order
Long Reads16 May
The Price of Ambition: How Washington Miscalculated the True Cost of War with Iran
Long Reads16 May
The Dragon's Divided Hand: How China Plays the Long Game Across Space, Beef, and Beltway Anxiety
Long Reads16 May
Palantir's Billion-Dollar Bet on American Defense Intelligence
Long Reads16 May
Turkey and Iran Find Each Other Again: What Fidan's Istanbul Talks with Bagheri Kani Tell Us About Regional Realignment
Long Reads16 May
The Quiet Convergence: Beijing, Washington, and the Shape of a Frozen War
Long Reads16 May
The Deterrence Deficit: Taiwan's Arms Sales and the Price of the Boeing Deal
Long Reads16 May
The Quiet Risk Beneath the Waves: Nuclear-Powered Vessels and the Contamination Question
Long Reads16 May
London's Divided Streets: Parallel Protests, Unprecedented Policing, and the Fractures of 2026
Long Reads16 May
The Boeing Accord: What Beijing Bought at the Trump Table
Long Reads16 May
Bangkok Rail Collision and the Chronic Crisis of Southeast Asia's Aging Railway Infrastructure
Long Reads16 May
Inside Bil'in: The West Bank Village Where Nonviolent Resistance Met a New Wave of Military Incursions
Long Reads16 May
The Bear and the Iron: Alice Weidel's Pro-Moscow Pivot and the Fracturing of Germany's Ukraine Consensus
Long Reads16 May
Operation Lake Chad: How a US-Nigerian Joint Strike Reshapes African Counterterrorism
Long Reads16 May
Abu-Bilal al-Minuki's Death and the New Geography of Counterterrorism
Long Reads16 May
Trump's Taiwan Gambit: The Unofficial Promise That Shook Three Capitals
Long Reads16 May
Al-Haddad's death tests the limits of a ceasefire built on contradictory promises
Long Reads16 May
Trump's China gambit: Boeing, Iran, and the art of the transactional summit
Long Reads16 May
The Anatomy of a Tweet: How Trump's Africa ISIS Claim Rewrote the Rules of Crisis Communication
Long Reads16 May
Israel Eliminates Senior Hamas Commander as Ceasefire Frays in Gaza
Long Reads16 May
Boeing's 200-Plane Deal and the Limits of America's China Diplomacy
Long Reads16 May
Crypto's Structural Stress: ETH Rout, Mining Sell-Offs, and the Price of Institutional Legitimacy
Long Reads16 May
The Xi Meeting Trump Needed Wasn't About Terrorism
Long Reads16 May
The Satellites Over Tehran: How America's All-Seeing Stare Shapes the Iran Military Calculus
Long Reads16 May
The Beijing Visit That Wasn't: Trump, Xi, and the Deal That Almost Wasn't a Deal
Long Reads16 May
War Day 78: The Economic Cracks Beneath Trump's Iran Strategy
Long Reads16 May