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Opinion08 May
Festus Mogae's Death Poses an Uncomfortable Question for African Democracy
Opinion08 May
The Hysteria Trap: How We Manufacture Crises While Ignoring the Problems Already in Front of Us
Opinion08 May
The Optics of Disclosure: What Governments Reveal and What They Bury
Opinion08 May
The Strait and the Phone Line: How Iran's Call With Ankara Challenges Washington's Gulf Calculus
Opinion08 May
Mélenchon's Sovereignty Pitch Is France's Oldest Argument in a New Outfit
Opinion08 May
Iraqi Kurdistan's Drone Problem Is a Governance Crisis Dressed Up as Isolated Incidents
Opinion08 May
The civilians caught in the rubble of another Gaza airstrike
Opinion08 May
Nike, Layoffs, and UFOs: The Three Crises Washington Would Rather Not Discuss
Opinion08 May
Hezbollah's FPV footage rewrites the calculus on the Lebanon frontier
Opinion08 May
The Explosion That Didn't Make Headlines: Covering Anbar's Persistent Instability
Opinion08 May
The Disclosure Economy: When Transparency Becomes the Crisis
Opinion08 May
The Market Doesn't Care — But the Gulf Does
Opinion08 May
Qatar's Washington Gambit: The Emirate That Refuses to Choose Sides
Opinion08 May
The Weight of a Shelter: Civilian Harm and the Rules of Engagement in Gaza
Opinion08 May
The Visibility Gap: How Iran's Mass Solidarity Gatherings Go Largely Unreported
Opinion08 May
Al-Shati Strike Shows How Information Silos Shape What the World Knows About Gaza
Opinion08 May
Gaza's Invisible Threshold: When Strikes Become Statistics
Opinion08 May
Al-Shati and the quiet erasure of refugee protection
Opinion08 May
Al-Shati and the grammar of acceptable harm
Opinion08 May
The Grammar of Civilian Harm: How Coverage Gaps Shape Who Gets Mourned
Opinion08 May
The Ceasefire Announcement and What It Hides
Opinion08 May
When State Media Stages a Nation: Reading the Street Spectacle in Tehran
Opinion08 May
The Ceasefire, the Prisoner Swap, and a UFO Drop: What the Timing Tells Us
Opinion08 May
Al-Shati after the strike: what the video shows and what the frame conceals
Opinion08 May
Presidential Market Movers and Ceasefire Announcements
Opinion08 May
Iran's Hormuz Warning Is a Diplomatic Escalation, Not Just a Threat
Opinion08 May
One battle, three narratives: the Telegram weapon
Opinion08 May
The Architecture of Escalation: What Lebanon's Latest Strikes Say About Diplomatic Failure
Opinion08 May
The Nike Pope and the UFO Drop: How the Simulation Got Confusing
Opinion08 May
Trump's Iran Pivot Is Not a Strategy — It's an Admission of Defeat
Opinion08 May
The Cruise Ship Outbreak That Governments Pretended Not to Notice
Opinion08 May
Tehran's Pre-Negotiation Play: Why Iran Is Flooding the Information Space Before Islamabad
Opinion08 May
Trump's 72-Hour Ceasefire Is Diplomacy as Spectacle
Opinion08 May
The Prisoner Exchange That Tells You Everything About the State of This War
Opinion08 May
Hezbollah's Daily Strikes and the Fiction of the Lebanon Ceasefire
Opinion08 May
Escalation Without Headlines: What Israel's Baalbek Strikes Say About the Rules of Coverage
Opinion08 May
Middle East Eye and the case for uncomfortable journalism
Opinion08 May
The Signal Iran Is Sending Washington Has Nothing to Do With Diplomacy
Opinion08 May
Trump's Victory Day Ceasefire Is Theater, Not Diplomacy
Opinion08 May
Trump's Dual-Strike Diplomacy Is Theater With No Second Act
Opinion08 May
Trump's 72-Hour 'Ceasefire' Is Really a Prisoner-Exchange Pause, and That's Not Nothing
Opinion08 May
Trump's Three-Day Ceasefire: Diplomacy or Performance?
Opinion08 May
Trump Announces Three-Day Ukraine Ceasefire — And the Silence From Kyiv Speaks Volumes
Opinion08 May
Trump's Victory-Day Ceasefire Is Theatre Dressed as Diplomacy
Opinion08 May
Trump and Zelensky Confirm US-Brokered Three-Day Ceasefire as Ukraine Agrees to 1,000-for-1,000 POW Swap
Opinion08 May
Three Days Is Not Peace: The Hollow Ceasefire Trump Announced
Opinion08 May
Trump's Ceasefire Gambit: Three Days, Zero Enforcement
Opinion08 May
Three-Day Ceasefires Are Diplomatic Placebos, Not Peace
Opinion08 May
Iran's Three-Front Signal: Sports Rankings, Missile Capacity, and the Art of Diplomatic Messaging
Opinion08 May
Tehran's Hormuz Ultimatum and the Fragile Logic of Coerced Diplomacy
Opinion08 May
The Diego Garcia Signal: What Washington's Indian Ocean Build-Up Tells Us About Gulf Strategy
Opinion08 May
The UFO Disclosure That's Actually Happening — and Why It Matters Less Than You Think
Opinion08 May
Trump's 'Stupid Borders' Line Is Not a Gaffe — It's the Strategy
Opinion08 May
MMRDA's Metro Tender Gambit Is a Governance Test, Not Just a Procurement Squabble
Opinion08 May
The Arithmetic of Attrition: Why Russia's Front-Line Push Demands a Reckoning
Opinion08 May
The disclosure paradox: when governments open the archive and the archive opens a can of worms
Opinion08 May
Taiwan's $25 Billion Bet: Defense Spending or Geopolitical Chess Piece?
Opinion08 May
Ukraine's Drone Campaign Is Dismantling Russia's Ammunition Chain, Not Just Its Stockpiles
Opinion08 May
The Blinken Doctrine Meets the Lebanon Border: Why Washington's Shuttle Diplomacy May Be Already Obsolete
Opinion08 May
Iran's Calculated Defiance: Tehran Studies Washington's Offer on Its Own Timeline
Opinion08 May
Tehran's Hormuz Gambit Exposes the Fiction of Free Seas
Opinion08 May
The System That Cried Wolf: How an IDF Radar Glitch Exposes the Logic of Middle East Escalation
Opinion08 May
The Bear Market Alibi Is Wearing Thin
Opinion08 May
Trump's Crisis Lexicon: When Every Threat Becomes a Punchline
Opinion08 May
The Beqaa Strikes and the Limits of Precision Warfare
Opinion08 May
The Strait of Accountability: What Washington Won't Say About the Hormuz Escalation
Opinion08 May
Hezbollah's Southern Lebanon Offensive and the Logic of Managed Escalation
Opinion08 May
The Escalation Calculus Behind Hezbollah's Expanding Operations
Opinion08 May
The Quiet Departure: American Economic Anxiety Is Now a Behavioral Signal
Opinion08 May
Trump's Glow Threat Is Nuclear Coercion by Another Name
Opinion08 May
Ozempic, Hantavirus, and Heat: Three Health Crises, Three Separate Conversations
Opinion08 May
The silence around Israel's Bekaa strikes tells its own story
Opinion08 May
The language of 'targeted operations' can't disguise what strikes on Lebanese villages actually are
Opinion08 May
Iranian Account of Gulf Confrontation Tests Any Remaining Ceasefire Logic
Opinion08 May
Hezbollah's Disarmament Refusal Is Not a Grievance — It's a Bargaining Position
Opinion08 May
The Court Said What the Market Wasn't Allowed To
Opinion08 May
Iran's Tanker Seizures Are a Message Wrapped in a Legal Dispute
Opinion08 May
The Diplomatic Patience Problem: What Rubio's Warning Tells Us About Washington's Shifting Calculus on Ukraine
Opinion08 May
The Disclosure Trap: Why Trump’s UFO Files Are Governance as Distraction
Opinion08 May
Lebanon's Salam Is Asking the Right Question. Whether Anyone Will Answer Is Another Matter.
Opinion08 May
The Market Always Gets the Memo First
Opinion08 May
Washington's UFO Moment: Disclosure, Governance, and the Limits of Transparency
Opinion08 May
The Geopolitical Premium Nobody Wants to Pay
Opinion08 May
Nawaf Salam's Ceasefire Gambit Exposes the Limits of Lebanese Statecraft
Opinion08 May
Virginia's Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Redistricting Script — For Everyone
Opinion08 May
The Courts Keep Redrawing the Rules on Democracy
Opinion08 May
Escalation and negotiation: the Iran–US paradox in the Hormuz corridor
Opinion08 May
The Strait of Hormuz Became a War Zone. The World Noticed, Then Kept Trading.
Opinion08 May
The Jobs Mirage: Why Wall Street Is Wrong to Cheer the US Labour Report
Opinion08 May
The Diplomatic Fog of War: How the Iran Crisis Is Crowding Out Every Other Priority
Opinion08 May
Tariffs, AI Risk, and the Crypto Delusion
Opinion08 May
The Hidden Vulnerability Coinbase's Bulls Don't Want You to See
Opinion08 May
The Ceasefire That Isn't: Hezbollah's New Operations and the Language of Justification
Opinion08 May
The UFO Drop: How Washington Learned to Weaponise the Absurd
Opinion08 May
The Pentagon's UFO Drop and the 21% Bet on Disclosure
Opinion08 May
The Cruise Ship Didn't Surprise Us. The Response Might.
Opinion08 May
The UFO Drop and the Art of Executive Distraction
Opinion08 May
The Logic of Bombing Empty Ships
Opinion08 May
The Revolut Glitch and the Illusion of Crypto Infrastructure
Opinion08 May