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Opinion19 May
JD Vance Says He Doesn't Understand Iran. That's a Problem.
Opinion19 May
Vance's Iran 'Two Paths' Leaves Out the Worst One
Opinion19 May
Ceasefire Collapsed, Artillery Didn't: What the Exchange Rate Between Talks and Strikes Tells Us
Opinion19 May
Google's Agent Pivot Is a Quiet Power Grab — and No One Is Watching
Opinion19 May
Trump's Iran Deadline Diplomacy Is a Threat to Everyone Involved
Opinion19 May
The 5.13% Signal: What America's Bond Market Is Telling the World
Opinion19 May
Trump's Ballroom Problem: Why the Iran Deal Talks Are Harder Than the White House Lets On
Opinion19 May
Vance's Tehran Gambit Is Less Than Meets the Eye
Opinion19 May
Hunter Biden's X Debut Is Not About Running. It's About Surviving
Opinion19 May
The Ballroom and the Pharmacy: Two Announcements That Say Everything About How This Administration Governs
Opinion19 May
The limits of economic fury: why maximum pressure on Iran keeps failing
Opinion19 May
How Iran rewrote the empathy script
Opinion19 May
Canada's Dead Citizen and the Accountability Gap on Lebanon's Southern Border
Opinion19 May
The Aurus in Beijing and the Architecture of a New Multipolar Order
Opinion19 May
Trump says he was an hour from striking Iran — then postponed. The ultimatum clock is running.
Opinion19 May
Bitcoin's inflation hedge myth dies another death
Opinion19 May
The Aurus That Says Everything: What Putin's Chinese-Plated Beijing Visit Reveals
Opinion19 May
Iran's China outreach exposes the limits of Western pressure — and the limits of hoping otherwise
Opinion19 May
The Price of Breathing: Kyiv's Citizens Under Missile Threat and Economic Strain
Opinion19 May
The Polish Micro-Niche Engine: How Three X Accounts Are Rewriting the Rules of Platform Influence
Opinion19 May
The Floor Isn't Holding: Why Bitcoin's $65K Moment Is Different This Time
Opinion19 May
Under the Siren and the Fare Hike: Kyiv's Dual Pressure and the Invisible Arithmetic of Wartime Life
Opinion19 May
The G7 Fractures While the Pacific Thaws
Opinion19 May
Putin's Fifth Beijing Trip and the Pipeline That Won't Cross the Finish Line
Opinion19 May
The Putin Visit Beijing Was Watching For
Opinion19 May
The FT Story Beijing Rejected Tells Us More About Western Media Than China
Opinion19 May
Putin's Beijing Gambit: What the 'Old Friends' Meeting Tells Us About the New World Disorder
Opinion19 May
The Strait and the Bluff: Iran's Gambit, America's Ultimatum, and the Workers Paying the Price
Opinion19 May
Putin in Beijing: The Partnership That Western Analysts Keep Misreading
Opinion19 May
The Theology of Brinksmanship: Washington, Tehran, and the Spectacle of Threat Inflation
Opinion19 May
Trump's Iran Hour: Diplomacy or Theater?
Opinion19 May
Trump's Underground Bunker and the Collapsing Boundary Between Spectacle and State Secret
Opinion19 May
The Ultimatum Economy: Why Washington's Iran Strategy Is Eating Itself
Opinion19 May
Trump's Gulf Theatre: Diplomacy, Coercion, and the Myth of the Self-Funded War
Opinion19 May
The Ballroom Bunker and the Theater of Executive Power
Opinion19 May
The Logic of Maximum Pressure Has No Exit Ramp
Opinion19 May
The Language of Strikes: How Media Framing Conceals the Mechanics of Conflict
Opinion19 May
Modi's Nordic gambit: India seeks tech partnerships without the geopolitical strings
Opinion19 May
Trump's Taiwan 'Chip' Is a Legal Fiction the White House Can't Keep
Opinion19 May
Bitcoin's Halving Playbook Is Broken — And Traders Are Running Out of Excuses
Opinion19 May
The Age of Cashing Out
Opinion19 May
India's education system is measuring the wrong thing
Opinion19 May
Lebanon's Sovereignty Test: Hezbollah's Veto and the Limits of U.S.-Backed Diplomacy
Opinion19 May
Ukraine's Drone Offensive and the War Kyiv Is No Longer Willing to Fight Defensively
Opinion19 May
The Price of Someone Else's War: How the Iran Conflict Sank Kenya's Fuel Markets
Opinion19 May
The World Cup, the Visa Office, and the War Nobody Talks About
Opinion19 May
The optics of the Gaza flotilla — and what they obscure
Opinion19 May
Iran's reparations demand is not the obstacle — it is the opening move
Opinion19 May
When the Market Cheers and the Pump Hits Rs 100: India's Fuel Price Dilemma
Opinion19 May
Xi Jinping's Beijing Reset Is a Masterclass in What American Diplomacy Keeps Getting Wrong
Opinion19 May
Damascus Ministry Blast Stokes Fresh Questions About Who Controls Syria's Inner Circle
Opinion19 May
Israel's Lebanon Operations and the Quiet Arithmetic of Frontline Casualties
Opinion19 May
Japan-Korea Thaw and the Rise of Pragmatic Regionalism
Opinion19 May
India's Energy Diplomacy Is Not About Austerity — It Is About Autonomy
Opinion19 May
Iran's Stock Market Opened Today. The Ceasefire's First Verdict Is In.
Opinion19 May
Damascus Blast Exposes the Limits of Syria's Post-Conflict Stabilisation Narrative
Opinion19 May
Estonia's NATO Jet Downed a Ukrainian Drone. That's a First — and a Warning
Opinion19 May
The Republican Who Stands Alone — And Pays the Price
Opinion19 May
The Drone That Redrew the Line: NATO's First Combat Action Over Estonia
Opinion19 May
The Unlikely Diplomatic Trio: Qatar, Pakistan, and the Hollow Promise of US-Iran Mediation
Opinion19 May
When Intelligence Agencies Talk, the Audience Is Always Wider Than the Target
Opinion19 May
Xi Said Putin May Regret the War. Then He Invited Him to Beijing.
Opinion19 May
Israel's Abu Dhabi Flight Is Not a PR Stunt — It's a Economic Survival Strategy
Opinion19 May
Japan Is Making Moves — and They're Not All About the Dollar
Opinion19 May
Japan's Quiet Financial Diplomacy Is Rewriting the Rules of East Asian Integration
Opinion19 May
Estonia's Drone Interception Exposes the Fiction of NATO's Non-Direct Involvement in Ukraine
Opinion19 May
Smotrich's Land Ultimatum Is Not a Blip — It Is the Point
Opinion19 May
When Oil Sneezes: Iran Tensions, Energy Spikes, and Crypto's Humbling Lesson
Opinion19 May
The World Cup Cannot Wait for Peace — and Iran Might Not Make It
Opinion19 May
The Quiet Architecture of a Japan–South Korea Rapprochement
Opinion19 May
When Enforcement Becomes the Punishment: India's Accountability Deficit
Opinion19 May
The calculus of escalation: what Hezbollah's first cross-border operations mean for Lebanon and Israel
Opinion19 May
The Asymmetry That Binds: Why China and Russia Cannot Let Each Other Fail
Opinion19 May
The Symmetry That Western Strategists Keep Missing
Opinion19 May
The grain truck didn't stop at the border — Iran's economic warfare has a new destination: the World Cup
Opinion19 May
The Andong thaw is real — but it has a shelf life
Opinion19 May
Starbucks Korea and the Corporate Brand Reckoning Nobody Saw Coming
Opinion19 May
Trump's Iran Pause Is Not Wisdom — It's Collision With Reality
Opinion19 May
The Cult of Raisi: How Tehran Turns Death into State Doctrine
Opinion19 May
The World Liberty Financial Reckoning Is Already Here
Opinion19 May
The Mother Equation India Keeps Overlooking
Opinion19 May
Standard Chartered's AI Pivot Is a Shareholder Story Dressed as a Productivity Tale
Opinion19 May
Trump's Iran strategy is just noise wearing a negotiating jacket
Opinion19 May
China's Dual Track at Geneva Was Never About Choosing Sides
Opinion19 May
The Supreme Court's Calibration Problem: Rights, Limits, and the Illusion of Remedy
Opinion19 May
Putin's Nuclear Drills Are a Signal of Weakness, Not Strength
Opinion19 May
Iran's Granite Shield Is Forcing Washington to Rethink the Air Campaign
Opinion19 May
The 10% Threshold: Why Crypto Adoption Numbers Should Worry Washington More Than Voters
Opinion19 May
The Cult of the Martyr: How Iran's Regime Machine Turns Tragedy into Theology
Opinion19 May
China's Quiet Pivot on Russia Tells Its Own Story
Opinion19 May
Musk's OpenAI verdict: statute of limitations, not innocence
Opinion19 May
Putin's Beijing Gambit: What's Behind Xi's Calculated Diplomatic Dilemma
Opinion19 May
The AI Culling Has Begun — And Nobody Is Pretending Otherwise Anymore
Opinion19 May
Japan-South Korea's Diplomatic Thaw Is Real, but History Has a Long Memory
Opinion19 May
The Architecture of Martyrdom: Tehran's Raisi Commemoration and the Narrative of Resilient Governance
Opinion19 May
Raisi's Commemoration and the Architecture of Martyrdom Narratives in Iranian State Media
Opinion19 May
Iran's Ceasefire Calculus: Rebuilding While Negotiating
Opinion19 May
The Raisi Model: How Iran's Anniversary Rhetoric Constructs a Political Template
Opinion19 May
Trump's Iran Pause Is a Play, Not a Pivot
Opinion19 May