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Long Reads16 May
The 526-41 Arithmetic: What the Russia-Ukraine Body Exchange Tells Us About the War's Endgame

Long Reads16 May
The Ceasefire That Never Was: How the May 2026 Ukraine-Russia Truce Fell Apart

Long Reads16 May
Tokenized Markets and the Export Engine: How China's Financial Architecture Is Quietly Reordering

Long Reads16 May
Vietnam's Quiet Expansion in the South China Sea and the Limits of American Deterrence

Long Reads16 May
The Price of War: How Trump's Iran Confrontation Is Reshaping the American Energy Math

Long Reads16 May
The Can and the Crucible: How Iran Tensions Are Reshaping Global Supply Chains

Long Reads16 May
The Three-Day Ceasefire That Wasn't: Victory Day, Trump Diplomacy, and the Limits of Pause-Button Peace
Long Reads15 May
Sony's AI Bet: Inside the Strategy Delaying the PS6

Long Reads15 May
Iran's Tanker Seizure Exposes the Fracture Lines in Beijing's Gulf Strategy

Long Reads15 May
The Fracture Line: How the US-Iran Standoff Is Exposing the Limits of Western Cohesion

Long Reads09 May
The Ceasefire Before the Silence: Russia and Ukraine's Victory Day Truce and the Limits of Temporary Peace

Long Reads09 May
Wall Street's Blockchain Turn: BlackRock's Tokenized Funds and the New Architecture of Money

Long Reads09 May
The Quiet Diplomacy Behind the Third Ukraine-Russia Ceasefire

Long Reads09 May
The Hidden Supply Chains the Iran Conflict Is Quietly Breaking
Long Reads09 May
The Ceasefire and the Algorithm: How Trump's Ukraine Truce and AI Security Order Expose a Single Doctrine

Long Reads09 May
The Ceasefire That Wasn't: Inside Trump's 72-Hour Pause and What It Reveals About the State of the War
Long Reads09 May
Sanctioned Sky: How US-Iran Tensions Are Rewriting the Rules of Middle East Energy Markets
Long Reads09 May
Three Days to Test Peace: Trump, Putin, and Zelensky Strike a Fragile Ceasefire

Long Reads09 May
The Price of Pressure: How US Sanctions on Iran Are Reshaping the Inflation Battlefield
Long Reads09 May
The Price of Pressure: How US Iran Sanctions Are Reshaping Global Economic Fault Lines

Long Reads09 May
The Market Hits a Record. The Rest of the World Listens and Wonders.
Long Reads09 May
Oil Spill at Kharg Island Exposes Iran's Vulnerable Energy Chokepoint

Long Reads09 May
The Quiet Politics of Disclosure: How Governments Decide What the Public Gets to See
Long Reads09 May
Trump's Three-Day Ceasefire Gambit: Hope, Scepticism, and the Long Shadow of a War That Won't End
Long Reads09 May
Trump's Moscow Gambit and the UFO Files: Two Deals, One Signal
Long Reads09 May
The Strait Test: Why America's Latest Iran Sanctions May Miss Their Mark

Long Reads09 May
The Demonic Phenomenon and the Lab: What Emerging Disease Alerts and Unexplained Phenomena Reveal About Scientific Uncertainty
Long Reads08 May
Iran's Hormuz 'Atomic Bomb': How One Waterway Became the World's Most Dangerous Chokepoint

Long Reads08 May
The Architecture of Pressure: How US Iran Sanctions Work — and Why They Keep Expanding
Long Reads08 May
Zelensky Grants Russia Permission for Victory Day Parade as Prisoner Exchange Deal Takes Shape
Long Reads08 May
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Gambit: Naval Buildup, Legal Posturing, and the Chokepoint That Moves Markets
Long Reads08 May
The documented destruction: footage from Al-Shati refugee camp and the limits of conflict coverage

Long Reads08 May
The Decree That Wouldn't: Inside Ukraine's Victory Day Gambit Against Moscow
Long Reads08 May
The Fragile Arithmetic of a 72-Hour Ceasefire: Trump, Kyiv, and the Prisoner Exchange That Changes Little
Long Reads08 May
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Speedboats, Missiles, and the Grammar of Legal Control

Long Reads08 May
Zelensky's Victory Day Gambit: A Decree, a Ceasefire, and the Geometry of Concession
Long Reads08 May
The Parallel Signals: What Kuwait's Gulf Alert Reveals About the Iran Calculus
Long Reads08 May
Trump's 72-Hour Gambit: What a Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Means—and Why It Might Not Last
Long Reads08 May
The Arithmetic of Three Days: What Trump's Ceasefire Gambit Reveals About the Shape of Any Settlement
Long Reads08 May
The Fragile Ceasefire: Inside the 48-Hour Truce and the 1,000-for-1,000 Prisoner Exchange Between Russia and Ukraine
Long Reads08 May
Britain and Iran Talk While the Middle East Burns: What the Araghchi-Cooper Call Tells Us
Long Reads08 May
The Strait That Runs the World's Engine: Hormuz's Sudden Silence and What It Means

Long Reads08 May
The American Paradox: Strong Payrolls, Falling Imports, and the Shadow of a Middle Eastern War
Long Reads08 May
Russia Agrees to Trump Ceasefire Plan as Ukraine, Western Allies Signal Cautious Interest
Long Reads08 May
The 72-Hour Gamble: Trump's Ceasefire Gambit and the Iran Strike That Shadows It
Long Reads08 May
The Ceasefire That Wasn't: Inside Russia's Diplomatic Gambit and the Fragile Architecture of Ukraine Peace Talks
Long Reads08 May
Trump's May Day Ceasefire: What the 72-Hour Pause Really Tells Us About Ukraine's War

Long Reads08 May
The 1000-for-1000 Calculation: What the Ukraine-Russia Prisoner Exchange and May 9 Ceasefire Signal
Long Reads08 May
The Strait of Hormuz Has Gone Quiet. That's Precisely the Problem
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Three-Day Ceasefire Gambit: What Was Announced, What Remains Unconfirmed
Long Reads08 May
Trump Announces Three-Day Ceasefire in Ukraine, Timing Tied to Russia's Victory Day Commemorations

Long Reads08 May
The Pressure Test: Inside Iran and the West's Nuclear Talks Standoff
Long Reads08 May
The Strait Goes Quiet: How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Is Reshaping Global Oil Flows
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Three-Day Ceasefire: What the May 9-11 Pause Reveals About the Trajectory of Ukraine Diplomacy

Long Reads08 May
The Quiet Revolution on NATO's Eastern Flank: How Poland Became Europe's Defense Catalyst

Long Reads08 May
Hezbollah's FPV Campaign: How Lebanon's Drone War Is Redrawing the Border Battlefield

Long Reads08 May
The Cruise Ship, the Rodent, and the Three Deaths: What Hantavirus Does—and Doesn't—Mean for Global Health
Long Reads08 May
The Last EU Apologist: Robert Fico's Moscow Gambit and the Fracturing of the Western Alliance

Long Reads08 May
The Infrastructure Layer: How US AI Compute Is Becoming a Foreign Policy Instrument
Long Reads08 May
Bullets and Payrolls: How the Iran Conflict Failed to Derail America's Jobs Machine

Long Reads08 May
Iran's Response Window: Inside the US Proposal and the Diplomacy Shaping the Middle East's Next Chapter
Long Reads08 May
The Strait of Hormuz Stands Still: What the First Total Commercial Closure in Seven Years Reveals

Long Reads08 May
Bitcoin's Technical Warning and Revolut's Two-Cent Glitch: What the Signals Tell Us
Long Reads08 May
The Hormuz Flashpoint: How Trump’s Ceasefire Diplomacy Collided With a Real War
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Hormuz Ultimatum Exposes Fractures in Fragile US-Iran Ceasefire

Long Reads08 May
Fico and Lukashenko Land in Moscow: What Victory Day Tells Us About Europe's Fault Lines
Long Reads08 May
Trump's crystal football and the hollowed-out peace pivot: Washington recalculates on Ukraine
Long Reads08 May
The Ceasefire That Isn't: Hormuz, Missile Claims, and the Limits of US-Iran Diplomatic Theater
Long Reads08 May
Virginia's Redistricting War Enters Its Fourth Act
Long Reads08 May
Iran's Shadow Over the Summit: How a Middle East War is Redrawing the U.S.-China Agenda

Long Reads08 May
The Pentagon's UFO Disclosure: What's Real, What's Classified, and What the Star-Shaped Objects Tell Us About American Secrecy

Long Reads08 May
The Death Toll in Lebanon: What the Numbers From Beirut Reveal About Escalation

Long Reads08 May
Tehran Draws the Line: How Iran's Diplomatic Ultimatum Exposes a Fractured Nuclear Architecture
Long Reads08 May
U.S. Navy Jets Disable Iranian Tankers in Gulf of Oman — Naval Escalation or Legal Enforcement?

Long Reads08 May
The Pentagon Opens the Vault: What the UFO Disclosure Actually Changes

Long Reads08 May
When the State Opens the Files: The UFO Disclosure and the Architecture of Government Transparency
Long Reads08 May
The Gulf tanker strikes mark a new phase in the US-Iran shadow war

Long Reads08 May
Smoke Over Dubai: What the Airport Strike Reveals About Shifting Lines in Middle East Conflict
Long Reads08 May
Hormuz on Fire: How the US-Iran Exchange Derailed Trump's China Reset
Long Reads08 May
Iran Strikes UAE as Ceasefire Talks Stall — Markets Reprice the Risk
Long Reads08 May
The Strait Is Closed: What Hormuz Means for the Oil Market, the Dollar, and Everything Else
Long Reads08 May
The Strait, the Laser, and the Narrative
Long Reads08 May
Iran Seizes Oil Tanker as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Spike

Long Reads08 May
The Perception Deficit: How America Fell Behind Russia in the Global Trust Rankings
Long Reads08 May
Tehran's Warning: Iran FM Signals Diplomatic Window Closing as US Military Posture Intensifies
Long Reads08 May
The Court, the President, and the Tariff: A Legal Reckoning for America's Trade Empire
Long Reads08 May
Ukraine's Diplomatic Push: Umerov's Washington Talks and the Promise of a US Envoy in Kyiv

Long Reads08 May
Settler Violence and the Slow Erasure of the Two-State Framework
Long Reads08 May
Hormuz Firefight: How the U.S. and Iran Managed to Clash Without Crossing the Line
Long Reads08 May
Hormuz on the Edge: Inside the US-Iran Escalation and the Fragile Ceasefire Gambit
Long Reads08 May
Beijing's Industrial Reckoning: Hebei Blast, US Tariffs, and the Price of Cheap Fireworks
Long Reads08 May
The Liuyang Blast: Supply Chain Pressure, Tariff Timing, and the Cost of Concentrated Production

Long Reads08 May
China's Anti-Bloc Messaging Is Gaining Ground in Asia — And Washington Has No Easy Answer

Long Reads08 May
India's market premium unravels as Hormuz tensions compound a growth slowdown
Long Reads08 May
Fire in the Gulf: Iran and the US Navy Trade Shots at the World's Most Vital Chokepoint

Long Reads08 May
Mount Dukono Eruption: Three Dead, Rescue Teams Race Against Time on Indonesia's Most Active Volcano
Long Reads08 May
The Leverage That Wasn't: How Iran's Crisis Ate Trump's China Summit
Long Reads08 May
Iran's Shadow War Hits Southeast Asian Balance Sheets
Long Reads08 May
Toyota's Warning Shot: Middle East Tensions Signal a New Era of Supply Chain Fragility
Long Reads08 May