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Coverage · April · 2026 · Opinion · 594 articles

The Strategic Logic of Releasing Combat Footage: Why the IDF's Golani Brigade Video Matters More Than It Appears

Turkey's Ceyhan Gambit: How BOTAS Is Turning a Pipeline Into a Geopolitical Lever

Mali's North Is Slipping Away — Again

Hezbollah's No: Why Beirut's Non-Negotiation Posture Will Outlast the Diplomatic Window

Trump's National Security Meetings Are Theater — and That Is the Point

The Gulf's Hawk-Dove Divide Is a False Comfort

The First Lady, Late Night, and the Politics of the Perfunctory Stand

The Quds Force's Hezbollah gambit: military reality or political theatre?

The Stranger's Invitation: What We Risk When We Trust

The Escalation Trap: What Eleven Years of Rising Military Spending Actually Tells Us

India's Dual Accountability Gaps: When Regulatory Failure Meets Personal Safety

Maharashtra's Identity Politics and Child Protection: Two Faces of State Intervention

India's Dual Environmental Emergencies Expose a Governance Deficit That Courts Alone Cannot Fix

The Kidal Footage That Should Be Making Headlines in Moscow

The Strait of Hormuz Is a Pressure Valve Washington Keeps Pretending It Doesn't Own

The Eternal Nation and Its Temporary Problems: On the Political Grammar of Resilience

The Superpower Iran Already Is

The Gulf's Honest Conversation About Iran That the West Doesn't Want to Have

Nigeria's refining renaissance is real. Nigeria's energy security isn't.

Israel's Southern Lebanon Airstrikes Will Not Deliver Lasting Deterrence

Merz's Iran Bluster Exposes a Deeper Western Unease

Carney's Quiet Revolutionary: How Canada Learned to Stop Worrying and Act

Bitcoin's $80K Illusion: When Derivatives Dance and Spot Demand Doesn't Follow

Japan's Quiet Capital Reckoning

Bitcoin's Oil Problem Is a Distraction From the Real Trade

The Court's New Consent Order: How Indian Judiciaries Are Quietly Redrawing the Bounds of Autonomy

The Price of Hormuz: Iran's Gambit and the Logic of Strategic Patience

The Quiet Squeeze: Retail Traders Are Propping Up ETF Momentum While Cutting Meals

The DeFi Compensation Era Has Arrived. Now Comes the Reckoning.

The Putin-Araghchi Meeting and the Geometry of US Disengagement

Putin's message from Tehran's new supreme leader changes everything

Putin's Sovereignty Doctrine and the Architecture of Counter-Hegemony

The crowdfunding trap: how Poland's medical charity economy became a policy confession

Three Signals, One Pattern

The Governance of Speed: What Putin's 'Temporary Barriers' Tell Us About Power That Endures

The Signal and the Noise: How Iranian State Media Frames the Regional Moment

Lebanon's President Just Named the Elephant in the Room

The Security Exception: How Israel Normalized Using Military Operations to Escape Legal Scrutiny

Poland's Charity Revolution: How LATWOGANG and Cancerfighters Built a PLN 150 Million Movement

The Bekaa Offensive Has Redrawn the Map on Lebanon. Now What?

The WHCD Shooting and the Speed of Legitimacy

The Strait of Hormuz Gambit: Why Tehran Is Bargaining Now

The Bekaa Valley Strikes and the Language of Escalation

Bekaa Unbound: What Israel's Expansion Into Lebanon's East Actually Signals

The Circuit Board War: How Iran's Conflict Is Rewiring the Global Tech Supply Chain

Merz Is Right About Iran — And That's the Problem

The phrase 'temporary ceasefire' has become a journalistic convenience that obscures more than it reveals

Putin's Eternal Russia Is a Confession, Not a Claim

Lebanon's Sovereign Moment: Aoun's Break with Hezbollah and the Ceasefire Calculus

The Two-Hour Marathon Is Broken. Now What?

The Charity Event That Broke the Bank: What Polish TV's Cancer Fundraiser Reveals About Television's Role in National Grief

Iran's Moscow Gambit Exposes the Limits of Western Pressure on Three Fronts

Ukraine's Weather Wars: How Extreme Conditions Compound an Already Broken Landscape

Putin's St. Petersburg Guest Reveals What's Left of Western Iran Strategy

The WHCD Shooting and the Theatre of Elite Concern

Ukraine Has Become the World's Most Important Weapons Laboratory

The Drone War Israel Didn't Plan For

The King of Pop's Box Office Coronation Is a Reckoning We've Been Avoiding

Why the Putin-Araghchi Meeting in St. Petersburg Demands More Than a Briefing-Room Write-Through

The AI Iron Curtain Has Nothing to Do With Free Markets

The Real Sub-Two Hour Marathon Was Just Run

Hezbollah's Line in the Sand and Lebanon's Fractured Sovereignty

The War on Iran Is Making the World Less Safe — And No One in Washington Seems to Care

Trump's Iran War Is Eating Its Own Tail — And Americans Are Paying at the Pump

Hezbollah's red line: why Lebanon's 'resistance' doctrine may outlast every ceasefire

Hezbollah's Qassem declares resistance unbroken as Lebanon faces diplomatic crossfire

Tehran's Mosque-Shelter Plan Tells Us More Than Missiles Could

The Silence Around South Lebanon's Demolition Campaign

The ICE Rename Is a Media Ruse, Not a Policy

Ceasefire in Name Only: Israel's Southern Lebanon Strikes Undermine the Architecture of Pause

The 'Dead End' Diagnosis: What NATO's Tactical Admission Tells Us — and What It Leaves Unsaid

Iran's Pharmaceutical Autonomy and the Sanctions Paradox: What the MS Data Tells Us

The Shot, the Show, and the Theater of Vulnerability

The Oil Price Illusion: How Benchmark Pricing Obscures Real Supply Crises

China's Pharmaceutical Rise and Washington's Self-Inflicted Vulnerability

Iran's Hormuz Signal and the Architecture of Détente

The Word 'Terrorist' Keeps Shifting — And Russia's FSB Knows It

Putin's Calculated Bet: Russian Military Maneuvers and the Intelligence War in Ukraine

The 15% Chance: Why Washington's Iran Diplomacy Optics Don't Match Reality