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Long Reads07 Sep
Witkoff and Kushner Meet Zelenskyy in Kyiv After Moscow Talks

Long Reads06 Sep
Trump Ties Trade To Rates In Jobs Day Pressure Campaign On The Fed
Long Reads03 Sep
Nvidia Is Buying the Town Square of AI
Long Reads03 Sep
The Coin, the Bill, and the Campaign Trail: Reading Three September Signals from a White House Heading Into the Midterms
Long Reads02 Sep
White House courts the travel industry while squeezing the chip industry: a single afternoon, two economic signals
Long Reads02 Sep
Three wires, one fiscal spine: G20 friction, a fraud estimate, and a long bond under pressure
Long Reads02 Sep
Strikes, polls, and silence: the arithmetic of an air war the wire has not yet named
Long Reads02 Sep
Joshua Wong's guilty plea lands, and Hong Kong's tax system quietly breaks
Long Reads02 Sep
A Utah courtroom, a not-guilty plea, and the long procedural road ahead in the Charlie Kirk killing
Long Reads01 Sep
A Hormuz Strike, Declared on Truth Social

Long Reads01 Sep
Shein lists in Hong Kong at HK$48.56, gives back an early 10% dip, and closes flat
Long Reads01 Sep
A Las Vegas jury convicts Keffe D. Thirty years on, Tupac's case keeps moving
Long Reads01 Sep
The Trade War Is Moving From Tariffs to Managed Commerce

Long Reads31 Aug
The surcharge scheme Amazon can't easily outrun
Long Reads31 Aug
Shein's Hong Kong listing: what the Nikkei Asia Telegram post can, and cannot, carry

Long Reads30 Aug
Strikes on Larak: A Narrow Island, A Wide Escalation
Long Reads30 Aug
Larak Island strike: US hits IRGC launchers as Hormuz mine cycle restarts

Long Reads30 Aug
A 25-year oil handshake, a Pentagon stake, and the price of Venezuela's interim order

Long Reads30 Aug
Kenya's 2027 race is already costing the country: what the new Daily Nation numbers reveal

Long Reads30 Aug
Tehran on the clock: Israel reserves the right to strike, even if Washington signs
Long Reads29 Aug
A Himalayan flood, a payments fight, and a labour-share print: three signals from one news day
Long Reads29 Aug
OpenAI cuts Cursor loose after the SpaceX deal, and the developer-tools market takes the hit

Long Reads29 Aug
Six months in: war, sanctions and the shape of Iran's economy

Long Reads29 Aug
From Pampas to Caracas: Two Trade Signals in a Single Day, and What They Add Up To
Long Reads29 Aug
Canada bets C$195 million that Xanadu can build a sovereign quantum supply chain

Long Reads28 Aug
Trump's 28 August stack: beef plan, antitrust threat, Space Academy order and a deportations market

Long Reads28 Aug
Six months into the Iran war, Trump says he is 'not in a hurry'. The Pentagon, per the Guardian, is already raiding its payroll.
Long Reads27 Aug
A lake by any other name: the order redrawing a US-Canada argument

Long Reads27 Aug
A lake by any other name: Trump's Lake Ontario order and the symbolic register of the US-Canada trade war
Long Reads27 Aug
Three signals, one stress test: how a film review, a grid order, and a generation's bets converged on the cost of waiting

Long Reads27 Aug
Seven Hundred Ghosts: Inside the Hugging Face Breach and the New Geometry of Agent-Scale Intrusion
Long Reads27 Aug
The swarm, the cover-up and the missing audit: OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, in the companies' own words
Long Reads26 Aug
Carney's tariff gamble: the executive actions stacking up against Canada

Long Reads26 Aug
Meta's $16.68 billion settlement: how a litigation pile-up reset the rules for addictive design
Long Reads26 Aug
Three Chinese moves on a single August day: an Eswatini evacuation advisory, a cross-border graft bill, and a Taipei drone fight
Long Reads26 Aug
Beijing Pulls the Rule-Maker's Lever: Inside China's Largest Tesla-Led Recall in Years
Long Reads26 Aug
The week America’s bottlenecks moved closer together
Long Reads26 Aug
Two readouts, one strait: Iran and Oman describe a Hormuz corridor on different terms
Long Reads25 Aug
Hormuz opens, Tehran closes: the day the ceasefire outran the diplomats
Long Reads25 Aug
Canada hits back: the C$20 billion counter-tariff and the unravelling of a thirty-year settlement

Long Reads25 Aug
Inside Microsoft’s AI-self-reporting pay experiment: what the leaked numbers actually show
Long Reads25 Aug
The Court, the Postal Service, and the Midterms: How a 6-3 Ruling Reshapes the Map Before November

Long Reads25 Aug
Trump's SpaceX stake places a presidential portfolio inside an orbital-computing story
Long Reads24 Aug
Canada becomes the test of Trump’s tariff doctrine
Long Reads24 Aug
Shein's Hong Kong relisting: from a $100bn mark to a $27bn target, and what the gap says about the model
Long Reads24 Aug
Shein's $27 Billion Hong Kong Listing Is a Retreat Disguised as a Debut
Long Reads24 Aug
Shein returns to the public markets, this time with a Hong Kong price tag and a $1.8bn ask

Long Reads24 Aug
Life sentence for Hui Ka Yan leaves China's property crisis exactly where it started
Long Reads24 Aug
Shein's Hong Kong relisting and Alibaba's $10 billion placement expose a Chinese capital market coming of age

Long Reads23 Aug
Vibe coding at the kitchen table: how China's non-programmers are absorbing the AI race
Long Reads23 Aug
Carney's September 8 tariff counter-strike and the new North American trade war

Long Reads22 Aug
Rezaei warns of strategic shift as Tehran signals a new doctrine for the next war
Long Reads22 Aug
'Rezaei widens the threat: Hormuz stays closed, US bases in scope, and a warning
Long Reads22 Aug
The tariff that cooled Quebec: how a 50% US duty shifted the sovereignty math
Long Reads22 Aug
Apple's 200-job cut at Siri and Vision Pro is less a layoff than a reallocation
Long Reads22 Aug
The 80-minute call: what two read-outs tell us about the Trump-Lula tariff opening
Long Reads22 Aug
Power, Pipelines and Public Health: Reading the Trump White House's 21 August 2026 News Cycle

Long Reads21 Aug
China's Oil Pause, Read Against the Thread Evidence
Long Reads21 Aug
Japan's week of heat: yen, rare earths, a Beijing trip, and a court it cannot defend
Long Reads21 Aug
Nvidia's China denial and a rare-earth rebound arrive on the same wire

Long Reads21 Aug
Literacy, Gasoline, and the Iran War: Three Signals From a Week When the Lights Stayed On

Long Reads20 Aug
'Two chips, three wires: parsing Nvidia, a denial, and a relayed market line

Long Reads20 Aug
Hui Ka Yan's life sentence settles one question about Evergrande, not the property crisis
Long Reads20 Aug
Six years after Megxit, British outlets report the Sussexes are preparing a UK return
Long Reads19 Aug
Three tests, one afternoon: the Fed, the Comey novel, and an ABC disclosure

Long Reads19 Aug
China's robots want a job, and its bond markets want a foreigner's wallet

Long Reads19 Aug
Beijing blocks Chinese firms from helping Europe's JD.com probe

Long Reads19 Aug
Show, Then Sell: China’s Robot Industry Hits a Harder Pivot Under EU and AI Scrutiny

Long Reads19 Aug
Capital stays in the chips while Beijing rewrites the rules of the AI race
Long Reads19 Aug
Unitree's Shanghai debut: a 629% opening print, a 542% first-day move, and the wire gap between them

Long Reads19 Aug
A 48-hour fracture: how the US-Iran diplomatic track snapped in mid-August
Long Reads19 Aug
The Gulf's Risk Calculus Is Shifting as the UAE Freezes Transactions With Iran
Long Reads18 Aug
Abu Dhabi cuts Tehran off: what the UAE's 18 August 2026 suspension actually says, and what it does not

Long Reads18 Aug
Hormuz, headlines, and the gap: how a single strait exposed the split between Trump's narrative and Iran's posture
Long Reads18 Aug
No talks, plenty of pressure: Trump opens three new fronts while Iran diplomacy goes dark
Long Reads18 Aug
Erdogan steps into a stalled Iran track as Trump rejects an extension

Long Reads18 Aug
A postponed trial, a drone strike, and a profits print: the week's fracture lines

Long Reads18 Aug
Ankara's bid for the chair no one has vacated

Long Reads18 Aug
The 50% question: why Canada was still negotiating after the tariff had arrived
Long Reads17 Aug
Tehran's Hormuz gamble: oil markets brace as Iran signals shift to an "offensive" posture
Long Reads17 Aug
Manila tests the economics of an arms-export dream

Long Reads17 Aug
China's July print: factories hum, shops stay quiet, and the supply-demand gap widens
Long Reads17 Aug
The $9 Burger Story in Beijing, Read Against the Cattle Signal Out of Chicago
Long Reads17 Aug
The Strait Hesitates: What a Weekend of Tanker Attacks Tells Us About Hormuz, and the World That Uses It

Long Reads17 Aug
Congo’s Ebola toll passes 2,300, exposing a public-health failure in slow motion
Long Reads16 Aug
Trump's South Korea drill cut: an alliance off-ramp wrapped in a North Korea rationale
Long Reads16 Aug
Four weekend signals, one read on the China-West squeeze

Long Reads15 Aug
Pick a side or pick a deal: Washington's AI ultimatum meets China's quiet backstop
Long Reads14 Aug
'The Strait That Hasn''t Moved: How an Iran File Quietly Repriced Oil, Defense

Long Reads12 Aug
Leavitt steps down: a press secretary built for the second-term media cycle

Long Reads12 Aug
Brazil's Two-Front War on Platforms and the Public Purse
Long Reads12 Aug
The chairman who left the chair: how the Tata Sons succession fight reads on 12 August 2026

Long Reads12 Aug
Tata Sons Chairman Chandrasekaran Resigns as the Group Heads Into a Board-Renewal
Long Reads12 Aug
Three Wires, Four Hours: A Day in the Second-Term White House
Long Reads12 Aug
Oil, a thinning reserve, and a contested diplomatic frame: reading the US-Iran standoff on 12 August 2026
Long Reads11 Aug
A Notice, a Strait, and a Missing Sentence
Long Reads10 Aug
Manosphere panic meets Irish statecraft, while American paychecks keep thinning
Long Reads10 Aug
Vaccines, the Strait and the limits of presidential fiat: three signals from 10 August 2026

Long Reads10 Aug
Spain readies for a midday eclipse and a continent's attention
Long Reads09 Aug