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Long Reads08 May
How $7 Billion in Pre-Strike Oil Bets Exposed the Market's Quiet Certainty on Iran
Long Reads08 May
Pakistan's Singapore diplomacy gambit: Tehran sailors, maritime fault lines, and a corridor in play
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Beijing Gambit: How the Iran Conflict Is Reshaping the Xi Summit Calculus
Long Reads08 May
Trump Heads to Beijing With a Skeleton Crew and a Full Plate of Demands
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Nuclear Ultimatum: Inside the US-Iran Showdown Over Iran's Atomic Programme
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Iran Paradox: Ceasefire and Coercion in the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads08 May
Ceasefire on a Knife's Edge: Inside the US-Iran Deal That Hangs by a Thread
Long Reads08 May
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Oil Markets Hold Their Breath as US-Iran Ceasefire Faces Its First Real Test
Long Reads08 May
The Hantavirus Gap: Why the World Has No Vaccine for a Disease It Has Known for Decades
Long Reads08 May
Ceasefire in Name Only: How the US-Iran Accord Keeps Surviving Its Own Collapse
Long Reads08 May
Fire and Oil: Inside the Strait of Hormuz Confrontation and Its Global Stakes
Long Reads08 May
Iran Just Closed the World's Most Critical Oil Chokepoint. The Global Economy Has No Backup Plan.
Long Reads08 May
The Capital Paradox: Why German Banks Are Sitting on a Mountain of Cash While Europe Burns
Long Reads08 May
The Deal That May or May Not Happen: Trump, Iran, and the Diplomacy of Ambiguity
Long Reads08 May
Fire in the Strait: How the Hormuz Crisis Exposes the Fault Lines of a Fragile Nuclear Deal
Long Reads08 May
The Perfect Squeeze: How the US-Iran War Is Testing India's Economic Fault Lines
Long Reads08 May
The Oil Trade Before the Storm: Iran Announcements, Market Timing, and the DOJ's $2.6 Billion Question
Long Reads08 May
Trump, Rubio, and the Vatican: A Diplomatic Gambit With a Crystal Football
Long Reads08 May
The Oil Statement, the Price Celebration, and the Hantavirus Dodge: Three Trump Moments, One Governing Logic
Long Reads08 May
Coinbase's Reckoning: $394 Million Loss, a Key Partnership, and the Price of Being American
Long Reads08 May
Burning in the Gulf: Vessels Ablaze in the World's Most Contested Waterway
Long Reads08 May
Trump's Vatican gambit: using Pope Leo XIV as a channel to Tehran
Long Reads08 May
Hormuz Fire: How a Narrow Strait Became the World's Most Dangerous Waterway
Long Reads08 May
Trump's ceasefire declaration: diplomatic theatre or structural shift?
Long Reads08 May
Escalation in the Gulf: Iran Hits US Destroyers Near Hormuz, Washington Strikes Back
Long Reads08 May
Love Taps and Leverage: How Trump's Minimalist Strike Redefined the US-Iran Standoff
Long Reads08 May
The Ceasefire and the Trade: How US Foreign Policy Became a Market Signal
Long Reads07 May
US-Iran Naval Confrontation at Strait of Hormuz: What We Know and Why It Matters
Long Reads07 May
Strait of Restraint: Inside the U.S.-Iran Naval Exchange That Wasn't a War
Long Reads07 May
The Strait at the Centre: How the Gulf Rebalanced the Map on US Military Access
Long Reads07 May
The Love Tap Doctrine: How Trump's Iranian Ceasefire Became a Weapon of Ambiguity
Long Reads07 May
The Hormuz Flashpoint: US Warships Pass Through Under Fire as Gulf Allies Revoke Overflight Rights
Long Reads07 May
Follow the Trade: The DOJ Probe, Iran War Announcements, and the Geometry of a Ceasefire
Long Reads07 May
Coinbase's Quantum Leap: Earnings Slump Meets the AI Agents Payment Frontier
Long Reads07 May
Trump's 'Love Tap': The Anatomy of a Ceasefire That Claims to Hold
Long Reads07 May
Another Explosion in Southern Iran: What the Pattern of Reported Incidents Tells Us
Long Reads07 May
Gulf Exchange of Fire: What We Know About the Iran–US Strikes
Long Reads07 May
The Uncertainty President: how Trump turned governance into a prediction market
Long Reads07 May
US Navy Destroyers Come Under Iranian Attack in Strait of Hormuz; CENTCOM Confirms Defensive Strikes Against Iranian Targets
Long Reads07 May
The Strait of Hormuz Confrontation: What We Know About the May 7 US-Iran Naval Exchange
Long Reads07 May
Iran Claims Anti-Ship Strike on US Destroyers in Strait of Hormuz — What We Know
Long Reads07 May
US Strikes Iranian Port Infrastructure: What the Escalation in the Strait of Hormuz Actually Means
Long Reads07 May
Airstrike on Iran's Minab Naval Facility Deepens Regional Tensions as Proxy Networks Realign
Long Reads07 May
US Strikes Iranian Naval Infrastructure Near Bandar Abbas: What the Escalation Means for Regional Stability
Long Reads07 May
Firefight in the Strait: What We Know About the Iran-US Naval Clash Reports
Long Reads07 May
Explosions Rock Southern Iran and Tehran as Regional Tensions Escalate
Long Reads07 May
Escalation at the Strait: How a Tanker Interdiction Became a Missile Exchange
Long Reads07 May
Iran Alleges US Strike on Tanker Near Hormuz, Escalating Ceasefire Tensions
Long Reads07 May
US Strikes Iran: What the Reports Say and Why It Matters
Long Reads07 May
Asian Firms Hedge Their Bets on US Investment as 2025 Tariff Shock Lingers
Long Reads07 May
Night Over Tehran: What the May 7 Air Defense Activation Reveals About Iran's Calculated Deterrence Posture
Long Reads07 May
The Night Tehran Went Dark: Air Defense, Ambiguity, and the New Deterrence Architecture
Long Reads07 May
Explosions Rock Western Tehran as Regional Tensions Escalate Between Iran and UAE
Long Reads07 May
Iran Fires on U.S. Warships in the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads07 May
Diaspora Under Fire: How Israeli Operations Are Fracturing Jewish Communities in Britain
Long Reads07 May
Iran Fires Missiles at US Naval Vessels in Strait of Hormuz: The Escalation No One Planned
Long Reads07 May
US-Iran Exchange in Strait of Hormuz Escalates Following Tanker Attack
Long Reads07 May
Russia and China Veto UN Resolution on Strait of Hormuz — What the Block Tells Us About Multilateral Governance
Long Reads07 May
Explosions Reported at Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas as Iranian State Media Describes Exchange With Enemy Forces
Long Reads07 May
The 90-Day Reckoning: How Iran's Port Blockade Is Reshaping Gulf Politics
Long Reads07 May
The Cruise Ship and the Contact Tracer: How the World Fumbled Another Disease Outbreak
Long Reads07 May
The $2.6 Billion Question: DOJ Opens Inquiry Into Oil Trades Ahead of Trump Iran Announcements
Long Reads07 May
The Night the Strait of Hormuz Caught Fire
Long Reads07 May
Explosions Rock Iran's Southern Ports: What We Know and What Remains Unclear
Long Reads07 May
The Strait That Runs the World: UAE Oil, AIS Spoofing, and the Limits of Hormuz Containment
Long Reads07 May
Explosions at Qeshm: What We Know About the Strike on Iran's Strait of Hormuz Port
Long Reads07 May
Iran's Persian Gulf Flashpoint: What the Bandar Abbas Explosions Signal About Escalation Risk
Long Reads07 May
Unclaimed detonations and a microscopic intruder: Israel faces simultaneous crises on two very different fronts
Long Reads07 May
Operation Freedom's Second Act: Saudi Arabia Clears the Path for US Gulf Shipping Escort
Long Reads07 May
Fire at the Strait: What the Bandar Abbas Explosions Reveal About Gulf Fault Lines
Long Reads07 May
Gulf Cooperation and Hormuz Denial: Inside the Contradictory Signals from Washington
Long Reads07 May
The Meeting That Wasn't: Lula, Trump, and the Geometry of Silence at the White House
Long Reads07 May
Brazilian Press Corps Departure Exposes Fault Lines in Lula-Trump Bilateral
Long Reads07 May
Madrid's Defiant Gesture: Spain Awards Sanctioned UN Official as Washington Tests the Limits of Diplomatic Pressure
Long Reads07 May
Six Explosions in 40 Seconds: What We Know About the Southern Iran Incident
Long Reads07 May
The Strait of Hormuz Gambit: How Iran Outmaneuvered Project Freedom
Long Reads07 May
Project Freedom's Near-Collapse and Recovery: Anatomy of a Gulf Reversal
Long Reads07 May
The 9 May Dilemma: How Ukraine Is Using Moscow's Victory Day as a Diplomatic Test
Long Reads07 May
Israel's War Economy and the Price of Global Isolation
Long Reads07 May
China's AI Moment: How Beijing Rewrote the Rules to Let Frontier Companies Public
Long Reads07 May
Beijing's Counterplay: How China Is Rewriting the Rules of Tech Competition While Washington Waits
Long Reads07 May
Kraken's $600 Million Bet on Stablecoin Rails and the Future of Crypto Payments
Long Reads07 May
Ryan Cohen's eBay Joke Lands Like a Bullseye — and Raises the Question Nobody Wants to Answer
Long Reads07 May
The Anatomy of a Coercive Ceasefire: What Russia's Victory Day Truce Reveals
Long Reads07 May
Trump and Lula Meet at the White House: What the May 7, 2026 Talks Reveal About the US-Brazil Relationship
Long Reads07 May
Japan's Quiet Pivot: Energy Crisis, Iran War, and the Architecture of a New Security Posture
Long Reads07 May
The Lula-Trump Meeting That Wasn't Really About Lula and Trump
Long Reads07 May
Lula at the White House: What the Brazil Visit Reveals About the Fraying of an Old Alliance
Long Reads07 May
Baghdad's Balancing Act: US Sanctions on Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister and the Fraying Edge of Iran Oil Sanctions Enforcement
Long Reads07 May
Inside Britain's Biggest Chinese Spy Case: How Dual Nationals Became a National Security Flashpoint
Long Reads07 May
Beijing's Military Purge: What the Ex-Defence Ministers' Convictions Reveal About Xi's Accountability Play
Long Reads07 May
American Bitcoin, the Trump Brand, and the Cost of Crypto Loyalty in the MAGA Era
Long Reads07 May
The Fast Food Squeeze: How McDonald's Miss Reveals a Consumer Economy Under Pressure
Long Reads07 May
The Silence That Never Came: Russia's May 9 Offensive and the Collapse of Kyiv's Ceasefire Gambit
Long Reads07 May
Ceasefire on the Line: Northern Israel's Fractured Pause
Long Reads07 May
Crypto Politics: How Trump's Bitcoin Bet Collides With His Iran Strategy
Long Reads07 May
The Drone War Deepens: How Russia's Bombardment of Kharkiv Exposes the Limits of Western Air Defense Promises
Long Reads07 May
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Sovereignty Claims, American Pushback, and the Chokepoint That Can't Be Closed
Long Reads07 May
Poland's Debt Enforcement Under Scrutiny as Economic Pressure Mounts
Long Reads07 May