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Long Reads05 May
The Strait Question: Inside Operation Epic Fury's End and the New Rules of Gulf Deterrence

Opinion05 May
The Leverage Calculus: What Rubio's Iran Rhetoric Reveals About Washington's Endgame

Geopolitics05 May
Trump Administration Declares Military Phase in Iran Over, Opens Diplomatic Track

Opinion05 May
Rubio's Strait Gambit: The Anatomy of a Calculated Coercion

Long Reads05 May
The End of the Operation: What Trump's Iran Announcement Actually Does and Doesn't Resolve

Geopolitics05 May
US Ends Operation Epic Fury, Launches Project Freedom Escort Mission in Gulf Waters

Sport05 May
Arsenal Reach Champions League Final After Saka Strike Secures Atletico Win

Investigations05 May
Trump's Iran 'Surrender' Calculus Collides With Tehran's Strategic Patience

Business05 May
Iranian Tanker Reappears Near Bali After Months of Digital Absence, Raising Sanctions Questions
Opinion05 May
The Language of Leverage: How Washington Frames an Iran Confrontation

Culture05 May
Square Enix Revives Final Fantasy IX With a 44-Page Picture Book Prequel — and the Franchise Itself May Be What Needs Saving

Long Reads05 May
Anthropic's Quiet Power Grab: How One AI Lab Is Becoming Infrastructure
Investigations05 May
Rubio Declares Operation Project Freedom a Defensive Strike — With a Caveat About Allies

Business05 May
Wadephul's Jerusalem balancing act: Berlin reaffirms Israel security pledge while condemning West Bank settler violence

Long Reads05 May
The Diplomacy of Displacement: Rubio, Caracas, and the Civilians Left in the Gulf

Culture05 May
Dezful's Destroyed Schools and the Politics of Documentation

Geopolitics05 May
Iran Forms Shipping Authority for Strait of Hormuz as Rubio Defends US Naval Posture

Opinion05 May
The Strait of Hormuz and the Fiction of Defensive Blockades

Long Reads05 May
Trump's Iran De-escalation: From Missiles to Memoranda

Investigations05 May
Rubio's Normalization Thesis: What the Secretary of State Said—and What It Leaves Out

Geopolitics05 May
Rubio Warns of Civilian Risk as US Blockade Tightens Grip on Strait of Hormuz

Letters05 May
Rubio Calls Iran Operation 'Defensive' as U.S. Pitches Hormuz Resolution to UN

Obituaries05 May
The Unnamed Dead of Lebanon's 2026 Offensive: A Memorial in the Absence of Politics

The Weekly05 May
Cargo Ship Hit in Strait of Hormuz as Regional Tensions Simmer

Oceania05 May
Reserve Bank of Australia Sounds Alarm on Inflation as Regional Tensions Reshape Economic Landscape

Americas05 May
Rubio Dismisses 'Oil Blockade' on Cuba, Calls US Posture in Region 'Defensive'
MENA05 May
Trump Tells Iran to 'Wave the White Flag' — But the Calculus in Tehran Is Harder Than It Looks

Africa05 May
Ethiopia Marks the Victory That Broke Italian East Africa

Asia05 May
FIFA's Broadcast Gaps Are Excluding the World's Biggest Football Markets

Europe05 May
Europe's uneven divorce from Russia: gas reroutes and diplomatic expulsions expose a fractured consensus

Science05 May
How FPV Drones Are Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Armored Warfare

Culture05 May
The Sound of Now: How K-Pop Stopped Being Foreign
Opinion05 May
Trump's 'Too Complicated' Iran Doctrine Is Not Wisdom — It's Calculation

Sport05 May
The Algorithm Always Wins: SportsLine's Prediction Machine and the New Sports Media Economy

Opinion05 May
Project Freedom and the Hormuz Gambit: Two Regimes of Control, One Narrowing Seaway
Long Reads05 May
The Hormuz gambit: how a waterway became the world's most dangerous flashpoint

Geopolitics05 May
US Clears $373.6 Million JDAM Sale to Kyiv in Final Drawdown Window

Geopolitics05 May
US Secretary of State Declares Operation Epic Fury Concluded, Iranian Speedboat Losses Confirmed

Sport05 May
Timberwolves Face Franchise Crossroads as Playoffs Expose Depth Concerns

Opinion05 May
Rubio's Hormuz Doctrine: When 'Defensive' Becomes a License to Strike
Opinion05 May
Rubio's 23,000 and the Dollar Cost of Keeping Hormuz Open
Geopolitics05 May
Rubio Declares End of Operation Epic Fury, Warns Blockade Phase Is Now the Tool

Opinion05 May
Rubio's Iran Rant Tells Us More About Washington Than Tehran

Sport05 May
India's World Cup Broadcast Crisis Leaves Millions Without Coverage
Opinion05 May
Rubio's Hormuz Gambit: When a 'Defensive Measure' Traps 23,000 Civilians

Culture05 May
Turkey's Yildirimhan ICBM Display Sends Strategic Signal From Istanbul Exhibition

Long Reads05 May
The Idle Engine: How Video Game Technology Quietly Became Industrial Infrastructure

Geopolitics05 May
US Clears $373.6M JDAM-ER Sale to Ukraine, Deepening Precision-Munition Pipeline

Opinion05 May
The Gulf on Fire: How Project Freedom Exposes Washington's Casual Contempt for Civilian Life
Business05 May
Israel Signals Resumption of Iran Strikes as US War Planning Intensifies

Culture05 May
Israel Maps Next Moves After Hamas Rejects Disarmament Terms, Diplomatic Gaps Persist

Opinion05 May
The Calculus of Coercion

Geopolitics05 May
US Creates "Security Zone" in Strait of Hormuz, Drawing Iranian Rebuke

Business05 May
Germany's Fuel Call to Israel Exposes Europe's Hormuz Exposure
Opinion05 May
The bluntness problem: Rubio's Strait of Hormuz rhetoric reveals the limits of American leverage

Investigations05 May
Hezbollah Declares Coordinated Multi-Front Operations Against Israeli Forces Along Lebanon Border

Long Reads05 May
The Open Secret: House Democrats and the Quiet Case for Acknowledging Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Opinion05 May
The Gulf's Stranded Millions and Washington's Empty Threat

Long Reads05 May
Trump, Pope Leo XIV, and the Fracturing of an Old Alliance

Geopolitics05 May
Israel to Supply Jet Fuel to Germany as Hormuz Crisis Exposes European Energy Fragility

Geopolitics05 May
UAE Reports Incoming Missiles From Iran; Tehran Denies Involvement, Warns Abu Dhabi

Sport05 May
Arsenal and Atlético Madrid Settle Champions League Semifinal in Stalemate Ahead of Decisive London Leg

Culture05 May
Trump's Iran Strategy Runs Aground: Regime Change Plans 'Humiliated'

Opinion05 May
The Language of Power Has Become Unmoored From Consequence
Long Reads05 May
The Game Engine Migration: How Video Game Technology Became Industrial Infrastructure

Opinion05 May
Iran's Hormuz Mechanism Proves That American Presence Is Not American Power
Geopolitics05 May
US Clears $373.6 Million JDAM-ER Sale to Ukraine as Long-Range Strike Capacity Becomes Central to Kyiv's Strategy
Culture05 May
Insurance Premiums Surge for Tankers Transiting Strait of Hormuz as Market Absorbs Risk Premium

Tech05 May
Coinbase's 14% Cut and the Prediction Markets Betting on a Tech Layoff Wave

Opinion05 May
Iran's Strait of Hormuz mechanism is a sovereignty signal, not a blockade
Long Reads05 May
The Trump Doctrine Goes to Riyadh: Dance, Deterrence, and the Financial Warfare Option

Geopolitics05 May
Iran Denies Striking UAE, Warns of Crushing Response If Emirati Soil Used Against It

Long Reads05 May
The Ceasefire That Was Never Tested: Pentagon, Policy, and the Fragile Architecture of US-Iran Détente

Culture05 May
Canadian Violinist Sues Google for $1.5 Million Over AI Identity Mix-Up That Cost Him a Gig

Opinion05 May
Poland's National Reckoning Runs Through Its Exam Rooms

Opinion05 May
Iran's Warning to the UAE Exposes a Gulf Balance That Is Running Out of Room
Long Reads05 May
Video Game Engines Are Quietly Running the World's Construction Sites
Business05 May
Germany Turns to Israel for Jet Fuel as Hormuz Crisis Redraws Energy Map
Geopolitics05 May
Israel to Supply Jet Fuel to Germany Following Strait of Hormuz Crisis

Arts05 May
Pune Exhibition Reclaims Pastoralist Cultural Heritage at Zapurzha Museum

Obituaries05 May
Russian Missile Strike Kills Four in Dnipro, Ukraine — May 5, 2026
Opinion05 May
Iran's Regional Hand Is Not What the West Thinks It Is

Letters05 May
The DOJ's NYTCo Lawsuit Is Politically Convenient. The Legal Theory Is Shaky.

Long Reads05 May
The SEC's Quiet Revolution: How Trump's War on Quarterly Earnings Could Reshape American Capitalism
Europe05 May
Germany Requests Israeli Jet Fuel as Hormuz Tensions Disrupt Energy Transit

MENA05 May
Oil, Drones, and the Architecture of Evasion: How Iran and Hezbollah Adapt Under Pressure
Americas05 May
Rubio's SOUTHCOM Visit Signals Harder U.S. Line on Latin American Security

Asia05 May
Japan and Philippines Open Talks on Surplus Destroyer Exports — the Biggest Step Yet in Their Security Partnership

Opinion05 May
When Accusation and Denial Collide: Iran's Khatam-ul-Anbiya and the UAE Crisis

Africa05 May
Mali's Gold Wealth and the Security Crisis Converging at a Dangerous Moment

Culture05 May
Dark Clouds Over Venice: The 61st Biennale Opens Under Geopolitical Strain
Long Reads05 May
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis: How a Shipping Chokepoint Became the World's Most Expensive Pressure Valve

Sport05 May
Thierno Barry's Everton Strike Reshapes Premier League Title Race Calculus

Opinion05 May
The Agentic Turn: Why the Finance Industry's Crypto Pivot Is Bigger Than It Looks
Opinion05 May
Hegseth's 'Gift to the World' Is a Gift That Keeps on Giving — to Escalation

Culture05 May
KAMAZ Taps Design Competition Winners, Betting on Fresh Talent to Refresh Russia's Industrial Identity
Long Reads05 May
Iran-UAE Standoff Tests the Limits of Gulf De-escalation

Geopolitics05 May
Russian Strikes Hit Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, Killing 16 and Wounding 46

Culture05 May
Musée d'Orsay Opens Exhibition of Nazi-Stolen Art, Reviving France's Long Reckoning with Cultural Theft

Opinion05 May