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Long Reads14 Jul
A toll that never was: Trump's 24-hour flip on Hormuz and the limits of unilateral economic warfare
Long Reads14 Jul
Four Iranian ballistic missiles hit King Faisal Air Base: what the footage shows and what comes next
Long Reads14 Jul
The word "never" and the wager it conceals: parsing Trump's latest Iran formula
Long Reads14 Jul
Ship attacks, kidnapper ruses, and a missing Pune engineer: a day in Indian media where the threads refuse to braid
Long Reads14 Jul
The $30 million question: Trump's Hormuz toll and the limits of sea-lane coercion
Long Reads14 Jul
The Strait of Hormuz toll booth: how a 20% US shipping fee ran into a hard legal wall in three days
Long Reads14 Jul
Drone over Bandar Abbas: a single Iranian morning, three wires, one unverified shootdown
Long Reads14 Jul
Tehran's mosque remembers a martyr, and the official script stays intact
Long Reads14 Jul
Tanker strikes, a blockade, and a narrow strait: how the US-Iran fight over Hormuz reignited in hours
Long Reads14 Jul
Locked jaws, false cops, and a census the country has been arguing about for a decade: a day in the Indian news cycle
Long Reads14 Jul
Sana'a sets an ultimatum in the sky: Houthi aviation warning lands inside Saudi airspace calculus
Long Reads14 Jul
Three nights over Iran: what the prediction markets are pricing in
Long Reads14 Jul
Iran's Hormuz Playbook: How Tehran Turned a Maritime Choke Point Into a Diplomatic On-Ramp
Long Reads14 Jul
Blockade, blame, and the breaking of a six-week ceasefire: the U.S.–Iran crisis of July 2026
Long Reads14 Jul
A third night of strikes: the US–Iran escalation nobody called an escalation
Long Reads14 Jul
A $110bn Hollywood merger, twelve state attorneys-general, and the new shape of media antitrust
Long Reads14 Jul
Strait of Hormuz on the edge: how an 11-hour deal collapsed into a US blockade and Bushehr strikes
Long Reads14 Jul
Forty-eight teams, two survivors: the 2026 World Cup's expanded bracket lands its heavyweight semifinals
Long Reads14 Jul
A travel ban, a strike, and a hidden toll: the DRC Ebola emergency the official numbers are missing
Long Reads14 Jul
Card trick, card trick: how a referee's call and a prediction market set off America's loudest football argument of the summer
Long Reads14 Jul
The corpse flower, the heel order, the wrecked bathroom: three viral snapshots and what they say about attention itself
Long Reads14 Jul
Inside Claude Code's hidden swarm: how OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol crossed the moat
Long Reads14 Jul
A toll booth on the world's busiest oil chokepoint: what Trump's Hormuz play actually changes
Long Reads14 Jul
Trump's Hormuz blockade and the new arithmetic of dollar protection
Long Reads14 Jul
Thirty Dead in Bangkok: What the Pub Fire Reveals About Thailand's Regulatory Patchwork
Long Reads14 Jul
India summons Iran’s deputy envoy as Tehran moves a Hormuz security bill through parliament
Long Reads14 Jul
Strait of Hormuz on edge: a renewed US-Iran fight, and the price of a chokepoint
Long Reads14 Jul
Trump's Thursday Address: Declassification, the 2020 File, and the Political Theatre of Disclosure
Long Reads14 Jul
A $111 billion merger, twelve attorneys general, and a streaming market that may already belong to someone else
Long Reads14 Jul
Twelve states take aim at the Paramount-Warner deal, and Hollywood's consolidation era is suddenly on trial
Long Reads14 Jul
Trump, the prediction markets, and the strange economy of presidential risk
Long Reads14 Jul
Bahrain sirens, IRGC strike, Geneva accord: the seven minutes that broke the Iran–US script
Long Reads14 Jul
The strait that holds the line
Long Reads14 Jul
The $110bn deal twelve states just sued to kill
Long Reads14 Jul
The Strait That Refused to Stay Open: How a 21-Mile Chokepoint Became a Fiscal, Military, and Diplomatic Front Line
Long Reads14 Jul
A Senate seat, a funeral, and a family name: the unusual passing of Lindsey Graham
Long Reads14 Jul
The Graham succession: a Senate seat, a sister, and the line between inheritance and appointment in South Carolina
Long Reads14 Jul
The drumbeat that wasn't: how a single Israeli intelligence warning re-opened America's threat picture on Trump
Long Reads14 Jul
The Strait and the Signal: Reading the Hormuz Oil Spike of July 2026
Long Reads14 Jul
Blockade, airstrikes, oil: Trump’s third-night campaign against Iran and the order it portends
Long Reads14 Jul
A Thursday Address, an Iranian Blockade, and a Settlement Courtroom: Three Threads of a Single White House Week
Long Reads14 Jul
A 20% toll on the world's oil artery: Trump's Hormuz gamble and the corridor it just cracked open
Long Reads14 Jul
The Strait at Gunpoint: How a 21-Mile Choke Point Became the World's Most Expensive Trap
Long Reads14 Jul
A Senate seat, a sister, and the soft corruption of dynastic succession
Long Reads14 Jul
The Hormuz Toll: How a US Blockade and Iranian Missiles Reshaped the Oil Corridor in 36 Hours
Long Reads13 Jul
The South Carolina Seat Nobody Saw Coming
Long Reads13 Jul
A hundred thousand in the rain: what Norway's World Cup homecoming actually says
Long Reads13 Jul
Bandar Abbas hit: what is confirmed, what is contested, and why Hormuz matters
Long Reads13 Jul
Strikes reported on Iran's southern coast: a narrow window, or the next escalation?
Long Reads13 Jul
A 9 PM Address and the Question of What Gets Declassified
Long Reads13 Jul
A court ruling, a prime-time address, and the question of what Trump can still settle
Long Reads13 Jul
Nine PM Eastern: Reading Trump's Prime-Time Address Before It Happens
Long Reads13 Jul
The nine o'clock mystery: what Trump's Thursday address might, and might not, settle
Long Reads13 Jul
The Thursday address nobody in Washington will preview
Long Reads13 Jul
Yemen's Ansarullah publishes Saudi port and airport coordinates, hours after missile exchanges resume
Long Reads13 Jul
Trump restores a blockade on Iran and reaches for a toll: a deal collapses, again
Long Reads13 Jul
Twenty percent of everything: Trump's Hormuz toll and the privatisation of the world's busiest oil lane
Long Reads13 Jul
Hormuz reopened, then shut: how a 24-hour blockade flip reset the US-Iran war math
Long Reads13 Jul
Sea Drones in the Strait, Sanction Relief in Brussels: Two Tracks of the Iran File
Long Reads13 Jul
Strikes on Abha and the unraveling of the Yemen truce
Long Reads13 Jul
Custody for the publisher, parking for the politician: six Indian stories that map a state under pressure
Long Reads13 Jul
Strikes on Abha, strikes on Sanaa: the cycle Yemen's 2022 truce was supposed to break
Long Reads13 Jul
Armed man arrested at north barricade of US Capitol as police investigate motive
Long Reads13 Jul
First confirmed use: how US Corsair surface drones hit an Iranian submarine facility
Long Reads13 Jul
The Iran Blockade Returns: A Single Truth Social Post and Twenty Percent of Global Oil
Long Reads13 Jul
Macron takes Ukraine's highest honour as Europe moves to build a shared missile shield
Long Reads13 Jul
The Strait of Hormuz, According to Two Parliaments
Long Reads13 Jul
Two warnings over Hormuz: Iran says the strait stays its business, Trump says he will seize it
Long Reads13 Jul
Hormuz by tweet: a one-sentence blockade, and the answer Tehran gave within an hour
Long Reads13 Jul
The Quiet Rise of Specialist Embeddings: A 278M-Parameter Filter for NSFW Text
Long Reads13 Jul
Washington reopens the Hormuz question: Trump's 'Iranian Blockade' and the rewriting of the strait's rules
Long Reads13 Jul
Trump names the US 'Guardian of Hormuz' and re-imposes a naval blockade on Iran
Long Reads13 Jul
Crimea's fuel squeeze and Putin's 'mirrored' threat: reading Russia's July 13 signal
Long Reads13 Jul
"Minutes from a weapon": Trump escalates the rhetoric on Iran as the inflation line draws fresh fire
Long Reads13 Jul
The Strait and the Bill: Reading Trump's Hormuz Claim
Long Reads13 Jul
After Khamenei: What Sheikh Al-Khatib's Declaration Actually Signals
Long Reads13 Jul
Trump's Iran rhetoric turns to spoils language as satellite imagery shows renewed work at nuclear sites
Long Reads13 Jul
Iran's Strait of Hormuz warning puts 21 million barrels a day back in the crosshairs
Long Reads13 Jul
The Strait of Hormuz as Toll Road: Trump Floats a New American Trusteeship Over the World's Oil Choke Point
Long Reads13 Jul
Airstrikes on Sana'a and an Iranian Jet over Hodeidah: Reading a Flash Escalation Between Riyadh and the Houthis
Long Reads13 Jul
Saudi jets struck Sanaa airport to block an Iranian flight, ending the de-escalation phase
Long Reads13 Jul
The Strait That Wouldn't Stay Open
Long Reads13 Jul
Airstrike on Sanaa airport: what the wire says and what it leaves out
Long Reads13 Jul
The Strait in Three Statements: How a Hormuz Showdown Became a Test of Maritime Sovereignty
Long Reads13 Jul
Airstrikes on Sana'a: How a Saudi–Houthi Pause Came Apart in a Single Afternoon
Long Reads13 Jul
Retail Inflation Breaks 4% in India After 16 Months, Reshaping the RBI's Rate Path
Long Reads13 Jul
A fire, a flag set, and a single warehouse: reading the UAE's 13 July incident through the channels that framed it
Long Reads13 Jul
Two Yemeni airfields, eleven minutes: what unverified Saudi strike reports tell us about the information fog over an unwatched war
Long Reads13 Jul
Sanaa under strike: Saudi air campaign returns to Yemeni capital as airport hit and evacuation ordered
Long Reads13 Jul
The power bill behind the AI bill: Washington calls the utilities in
Long Reads13 Jul
Iran's second Mahan Air landing at Sanaa tests a Saudi blockade that may not hold
Long Reads13 Jul
Tehran's leverage play: Hormuz threats, a martyred leader, and the Iran deal that may not survive the summer
Long Reads13 Jul
A struck pumping station, a NATO offer, and the geometry of escalation
Long Reads13 Jul
Tehran's two-front taunt: how the Iranian Foreign Ministry framed one senator's death and one alleged plot in a single news cycle
Long Reads13 Jul
China's industrial state is squeezing its private developers, and the bills are coming due
Long Reads13 Jul
Six dispatches, one country: reading the Indian Express newsroom on 13 July 2026
Long Reads13 Jul
Tehran keeps both levers in hand as Pakistan channel stays open
Long Reads13 Jul
Hitting the switch, hiding the wires: how Indian cities outsource public-service failures to private contractors
Long Reads13 Jul
Tehran's 'blank check' warning: how Iran's Persian Gulf strikes redraw the line on escalation with Washington
Long Reads13 Jul