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Long Reads08 Jul 26
Taiwan's shipbuilder doubles down on defense as China's industrial weight reshapes the Pacific order
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes on the Gulf: What the Overnight Reports From Southern Iran Actually Show
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes on Bushehr: What Three Iranian Wire Reports Actually Tell Us
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz under fire: how an Iranian escalation in the world's busiest oil chokepoint dragged the United States…
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz: How a 21-Mile Chokepoint Became the Centre of a US-Iran Showdown
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz in Flames: How a US-Iran Ceasefire Collapse Is Rewriting the Oil Map
Long Reads08 Jul 26
The Strait at the Edge: How the Hormuz Crisis Became Trump’s Iran War by Other Means
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Hormuz on a Knife-Edge: How a 21-Mile Waterway Became the Flashpoint of the Week
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz flares: what an Iran–US escalation over a shipping lane actually means
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz in Flames: How a Week of Escalation Rewrote the Gulf's Risk Map
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Blockade Redux: Washington's Strait of Hormuz Play Meets an Iranian Counter-Pivot
Long Reads08 Jul 26
A chokepoint re-litigated: the Strait of Hormuz returns as a contested frontier
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Spain Holds the Line: Madrid Rejects Trump's Trade Threat Over Iran War and Defence Spending
Opinion08 Jul 26
The $900 Billion Question Hanging Over SpaceX
Culture08 Jul 26
Sotheby's Stages a Late-Summer Botero Show as the Latin American Market Resets
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Five Projectiles at Sirik: What the Strike on a Small Iranian Port Tells Us About the New US-Iran Risk Curve
Investigations08 Jul 26
Samsung's record profit meets a 6% slide: what South Korea's chip megabudget is up against
Sport08 Jul 26
Salt Lake City Summer League closes with a Jazz win and a top-pick showcase
Sport08 Jul 26
Rahm returns as Scheffler, McIlroy head to a rejigged Scottish Open
Culture08 Jul 26
Pitchfork's Mexico City debut leans on legacy acts and local openers — and asks a city to grow with it
Culture08 Jul 26
Pawlikowski Returns to Sarajevo: 'Fatherland' Opens a Festival That Refuses to Pick Sides
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Patriot on the table: Trump, Zelenskyy, and the air-defence deal that reframes NATO's Hague summit
Culture08 Jul 26
Andrij Parekh Directs Netflix's 'The Retrievals': What the IVF Scandal Series Signals About Streaming's Long Bet on…
Opinion08 Jul 26
Three OpenAI Stories, One Question About Who Governs the Frontier
Opinion08 Jul 26
OpenAI's regulatory green light and a voice reveal in the same 24 hours — that's not coincidence
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Inside OpenAI’s $520M Bank of America Loan: What the Credit Line Says About the Coming IPO
Culture08 Jul 26
Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and the New Geography of the Blockbuster Premiere
Long Reads08 Jul 26
After Nirim: How a Khan Yunis Airstrike Reframes the Hunt for October 7 Planners
Long Reads08 Jul 26
NATO finds unity in the shadow of an escalating Iran confrontation
Long Reads08 Jul 26
NATO's Rutte calls US strikes on Iran 'absolutely necessary' as alliance moves to enshrine the Russia threat in summit…
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Microsoft pulls its own models into Excel and Outlook — and the AI stack quietly reshuffles
Culture08 Jul 26
Mastodon Marks a Year Without Hinds with a Short Film Built Around the Music
Opinion08 Jul 26
Southern Lebanon Erupts Again: Israel Hits Ali al-Tahir as the World Watches Elsewhere
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Kyiv under fire, ceasefire odds stall: where the Russia–Ukraine war actually sits on 8 July 2026
Culture08 Jul 26
Janus Films Revives 'Unzipped' — and the 1990s Fashion Documentary Finally Catches Up to Itself
Long Reads08 Jul 26
"Islamic Republic of Japan": How a Presidential Slip Laid Bare the Fragility of US Strike Narratives
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Iraq's Dollar Detour: How a Four-Month Cash Pause Reshaped the U.S.-Iran Periphery
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Iran Opens a New Front at Sea: Missiles Toward U.S. Warships and a Direct Threat to the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz on Edge: Iranian Strikes on US Bases in Bahrain and Kuwait Test a Wartime Deterrence Architecture
Long Reads08 Jul 26
A Martyr's Handwriting and a Sacred Story: How Iranian State Media Re-tells Hussein for a Post-Khomeini Generation
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Tanker Strikes and an Oil Licence Revoked: What the 7–8 July Escalation Tells Us About the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Iran's Mournful Theater: Martyrdom, Media, and the Politics of the Shrine
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Tehran's Hormuz Calculus: Sanctions, Sovereignty, and the Oil Market's Three-Percent Wake-Up Call
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz: How a 33-kilometre choke point became Iran’s leverage play against the world
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Sovereignty Claims, Tanker Attacks, and the Calculus of a Choke Point
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Hormuz on the wire: Iran's strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait redraw the Gulf's risk map
Long Reads08 Jul 26
The Friday Accord: A Geneva Deal Reshapes the Iran File, and the Cracks Already Showing
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes on Iran's Coast: What the Bushehr and Chabahar Reports Actually Tell Us
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz on edge: Iran targets U.S. air base in Bahrain as sirens sound across the Gulf
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Iran's Bahrain Gambit: Why the Strait Became the Retaliation of Choice
Culture08 Jul 26
Netflix's 'I'm Not Afraid' turns a rural Mexican mystery into a study of how childhood ends
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Hormuz on fire: how a single US waiver reversal redrew the Iran oil map
Culture08 Jul 26
Henry Taylor and James Jarvaise, reunited: Hauser & Wirth opens a two-anchor show that asks what the LA painter still…
Long Reads08 Jul 26
4% and Falling: What a Stalled Greenland Bid Reveals About the New Art of the (Much Smaller) Deal
Culture08 Jul 26
Gaga's 'Dead Dance' lands an Emmy nod — and a fifth career nomination for a singer who keeps collecting TV rooms
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Counting the Lies: How a Fake-Capacity USB Market Reveals the Trust Deficit Underpinning Global E-Commerce
Sport08 Jul 26
Six of eight and counting: how Europe turned the 2026 World Cup into its own tournament
Culture08 Jul 26
Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune: Part Three' Trailer Arrives, and Hollywood's Biggest Sci-Fi Gamble Just Got Bigger
Culture08 Jul 26
Constable's Four Seasons, a New Museum Director, and the Surrealist on a Soccer Jersey
Long Reads08 Jul 26
China's Demographic Squeeze: Pension Reform, Property Collapse, and the Industrial Pivot That Won't Wait
Long Reads08 Jul 26
China's Two-Track Play: Death Sentence for Graft, Overture to Washington Over Iran
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes on Iran: What the CENTCOM Announcement Actually Says — and What It Doesn't
Culture08 Jul 26
Bela Bajaria's Mipcom Vanguard Award Quietly Confirms Where Global Content Gravity Now Sits
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Bandar Abbas holds: how a night of strikes on Iran's southern coast unfolded without the damage Tehran says it avoided
Long Reads08 Jul 26
The Hours Before Sunrise: An Iran Strike That May Not Have Happened, and a Waterway the World Cannot Afford to Lose
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Hitting the Gulf: What a Night of Explosions in Bahrain Tells Us About the War With Iran
Long Reads08 Jul 26
A flag in Atlanta: how a single gesture at the World Cup lit up the politics of the Arab street
Culture08 Jul 26
Iran's top diplomat turns a Trump insult into a civilisational statement — and a diplomatic opening
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Trump at the Ankara Summit: A Reordering of the Western Alliance, in Turkey
Culture08 Jul 26
New York's Natural History Museum Returns 2,700 Hair Samples Taken From Native American Cadavers in the 19th Century
Long Reads08 Jul 26
"I'm their number one target": Trump on the record about a war he says is already won
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Ceasefire over, strikes resumed: Trump declares Iran 'defeated' as the air campaign reopens
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes on Bandar Abbas and Chabahar: what the sources actually show
Tech08 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC says it shot down an MQ-9 drone over Khormouj after reported US strikes
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Sirens in Bahrain: What the 8 July Strikes Reveal About Iran's Expanding Reach
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Bandar Kangan and the New Calculus: Why Trump's Strikes on Iran Break a Decade of Restraint
Long Reads08 Jul 26
A slip, a meeting, a relationship: parsing the Zelensky–Trump episode on 8 July 2026
Sport08 Jul 26
Same script, fourth act: what Belgium's 4-1 demolition of the USMNT actually tells us
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes, Fog, and a School: How a 7 July 2026 U.S. Operation Inside Iran Slipped Past Its Own Intelligence Warnings
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Ceasefire, Then Thunder: How the U.S.–Iran Calm Broke in a Single Night
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Trump's Spain outburst and the Greenland fixation: a NATO summit that reread the Atlantic
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Trump's Greenland gambit and the NATO question: threat, leverage, or the start of something larger
Culture08 Jul 26
M3GAN Spinoff Soulm8te Bypasses Theaters for Digital Release, Marking a Quiet Recalibration at Universal
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Qaani in Karbala: A Quiet Realignment Inside the Shia Axis
Long Reads08 Jul 26
OpenAI's July blitz: voice, search, and a quiet enterprise pivot
Opinion08 Jul 26
OpenAI's GPT-Live is here. The voice-AI race just stopped being polite.
Culture08 Jul 26
One Frame at a Time: How a Lone Filmmaker Is Saving Star Wars History in IMAX
Culture08 Jul 26
New Museum Taps Massimiliano Gioni to Succeed Lisa Phillips
Culture08 Jul 26
Mubi acquires Eleanor Coppola's Marie Antoinette documentary, marking a 20-year anniversary of Sofia Coppola's original
Opinion08 Jul 26
Maine Democrats Want Platner Out. The Party Still Has to Pick a Winner.
Culture08 Jul 26
Louisiana Museum Lines Up a Major Remedios Varo Show for Autumn 2026
Sport08 Jul 26
England meet Norway in a World Cup quarter-final that outgrew its own commentary
Sport08 Jul 26
Belgium cruise past USA and into a Spain quarter-final — but the Balogun row still hangs over the tournament
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Missiles, cables, silence: what an unconfirmed Persian Gulf launch tells us about the gap between what is claimed and…
Long Reads08 Jul 26
A Supreme Leader's Final Journey: Khamenei's Coffin Reaches Najaf
Long Reads08 Jul 26
US Strikes on Chabahar: A Narrow Window or the Opening Salvo of a Wider War?
Culture08 Jul 26
U2's "Street of Dreams" Trades Stadium Spectacle for Apartment-Block Crash
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Trump Posts Strike Footage to Truth Social as NATO Cohesion Frays Around the Iran War
Sport08 Jul 26
Switzerland's 1954 echo: a 72-year wait ends in Vancouver, Argentina awaits
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Switzerland edge Colombia on penalties to set up Argentina quarter-final at the 2026 World Cup
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Maine Democrats face an eleventh-hour reckoning as Sanders urges Platner to withdraw
Opinion08 Jul 26
Mbappé vs. Messi at 39: What the 2026 World Cup's Scoring Race Actually Tells Us
Sport08 Jul 26
England's family day in Charlotte underscores Tuchel's culture-first World Cup gamble
Sport08 Jul 26
Messi drags Argentina past Egypt as Salah exits and the World Cup turns on a single man
Culture08 Jul 26
Academy Museum Bets Big on Horror for Its Next Blockbuster Blockbuster
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Strikes on Chabahar and a Drone Downed: What the Geneva Ceasefire Did Not Stop
Sport08 Jul 26
A divided field lands at Renaissance Club — and the Scottish Open becomes the proxy vote on the PGA Tour's two-tier…
Sport08 Jul 26
Rory McIlroy backs Scottish Open as the template for a more global PGA Tour calendar
Culture08 Jul 26
Matt Brittin, the licence fee and the future of the BBC: what the parliamentary grilling actually settles
Culture08 Jul 26
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Cement Their Place on Hollywood Boulevard as the West Coast Catches Up to Its Own History
Culture08 Jul 26
Bleecker Street Acquires U.S. Rights to Rachel Zegler–Penn Badgley Thriller 'NDA'
Culture08 Jul 26
Alonso Ruizpalacios Calls for 'Trojan Horses' as Bogotá's BAM Opens Behind a Football Bump
Culture08 Jul 26
The Smithsonian Report and the New Vocabulary of Cultural Warfare
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Najaf's funeral cortège and the choreography of Shia political authority
Long Reads08 Jul 26
NATO summit opens under the shadow of two wars — and one question about Iran
Culture08 Jul 26
Sarajevo bets on the audience: a new audience-voted prize joins Europe's mid-summer film calendar
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Meta's glasses, Meta's teens, Meta's exposure: one company, three regulator fights in a single Tuesday
Sport08 Jul 26
Lakers circle Kuminga as restricted-free-agent market thins
Culture08 Jul 26
‘Enola Holmes 3’ lands a 20.7-million-view debut — and a reminder of how the Netflix algorithm still picks winners
Sport08 Jul 26
Switzerland break penalty hoodoo to send Colombia home and reach World Cup quarterfinals
Long Reads08 Jul 26
A Crash, A Reform, A Country Off-Balance: Pakistan Between Washington and the Gulf
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Four EU capitals face the European Commission's top cyber court for missing a key security deadline
Business08 Jul 26
CENTCOM announces fresh strikes on Iran as Trump widens the air war
Sport08 Jul 26
Switzerland edge Colombia on penalties to reach first World Cup quarter-final since 1954
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Le Pen's gambit: a 15-month ban, a 2027 run, and the stress test for France's mainstream parties
Sport08 Jul 26
Genesis Scottish Open returns with a global field and a scheduling argument McIlroy wants the PGA Tour to hear
Sport08 Jul 26
The NBA's summer showcase returns to Las Vegas with its newest No. 1 pick set for a national-TV debut
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strait of Hormuz is the chokepoint Iran and the United States are quietly squeezing
Opinion08 Jul 26
Gaza hospital tallies become the only public record, and the framing depends on who is counting
Culture08 Jul 26
HBO Max's Emmy Bet Pays Off as 'The Pitt' and 'Hacks' Reshape the Streaming Race
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump's Orbital Boast and the NATO Exit: Reading the Signals from the Turkey Summit
Culture08 Jul 26
Three Obituaries, Three Different Silences: Gianikian, Brathwaite, and Moriarty
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Signals over Bahrain: what an overnight missile exchange actually tells us
Culture08 Jul 26
Araghchi's 'vulgarity with action' line frames Tehran's diplomatic posture as the US rhetoric hardens
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Taiwan's shipbuilder bets on a defense drive Beijing cannot ignore
Culture08 Jul 26
Yashasvi Juyal Brings a Highway That Disappears to Karlovy Vary
Sport08 Jul 26
England-Mexico reunion caps a World Cup that repaired a national schism
Sport08 Jul 26
A 4-1 exit in Seattle and the question the USMNT cannot keep postponing
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Three markets, one anxiety: S&P froth, a stalled Fed pivot, and a Taiwan shipbuilder that bets on the wrong weather
Sport08 Jul 26
England-Norway quarter-final reopens a 30-year-old commentary line — and a reckoning about scale
Culture08 Jul 26
Dune: Part Three trailer lands — Villeneuve closes the Arrakis cycle on his own terms
Business08 Jul 26
US strikes on Iran's Bandar Abbas port send shockwave through Strait of Hormuz shipping
Culture08 Jul 26
John Slattery, Groin Kicks, and the Curious Endurance of the Frat-Pack Comedy
Business08 Jul 26
CENTCOM strikes 80-plus Iranian targets as Hormuz toll threat to shipping intensifies
Business08 Jul 26
Hormuz crisis returns: US revokes Iran oil waivers as missiles fly at Navy ships
Business08 Jul 26
US weighs Strait of Hormuz blockade as Iran tit-for-tat escalates
Long Reads08 Jul 26
The 4% Solution: How a Greenland Provocation Became a Test of the Transatlantic Order
Opinion08 Jul 26
India's Heat-Proof Ice Cream and the Country's Climate Adaptation Problem
Tech08 Jul 26
Meta opens Instagram photos to AI training — and the market is pricing the company's AI ambitions at the back of the…
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Silicon's quiet realignment: why CPUs have become the AI race's decisive terrain
Culture08 Jul 26
Airbnb's Lollapalooza Backstage Bet: When Live Music Becomes an Inventory Class
Sport08 Jul 26
Brunson goes under the knife: Knicks' Finals MVP opts for wrist surgery after title run
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Greenland on the Block: Trump’s Arctic Bid and the Multipolar Map It Reveals
Culture08 Jul 26
Sébastien Vaniček's 'Evil Dead Burn' rewires the franchise's family horror for a French register
Opinion08 Jul 26
Meta's $1.4 Trillion Shadow and the Quiet Bet Against It
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
CENTCOM Says It Struck Over 80 Targets Inside Iran in Latest Round of Retaliatory Strikes
Business08 Jul 26
Trump opens new Iran front with strikes on Abu Musa and Bushehr, framing them as revenge for ship attack
Business08 Jul 26
Trump tells Zelensky the U.S. will license Patriot production in Ukraine, hours after signalling a looser hand on oil
Sport08 Jul 26
A World Cup audience bigger than the World Cup: what 42 million US viewers actually signals
Sport08 Jul 26
USMNT exits 2026 World Cup at the round of 16: a verdict on a host project
Culture08 Jul 26
Hema Malini, a borrowed suit, and a Rs 15,000 verdict: three small stories from a noisy Indian news week
Opinion08 Jul 26
Four bail orders, one quiet message: India's lower courts are doing the constitutional heavy lifting
Opinion08 Jul 26
When the Courtroom Becomes the Only Audit: Reading Two Indian Family-Law Verdicts
Culture08 Jul 26
Alabama Shakes Return After Eleven Years, and Athens Has a Decision to Make
Sport08 Jul 26
USMNT exits World Cup in round of 16, undone by Belgium and by its own week of distraction
Opinion08 Jul 26
Egypt's World Cup exit tests the politics of consolation
Opinion08 Jul 26
A NATO summit lands in Ankara, and the bill finally arrives
Sport08 Jul 26
A golden generation ends on home soil: what the USMNT's Belgium loss actually exposed
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Iran File Is Open Again: What the 8 July Strikes Tell Us About the Limits of American Leverage
Culture08 Jul 26
Netflix taps a Colombian veteran to lead its content push in Bogotá
Sport08 Jul 26
Belgium knock out co-host USA and mock Trump and FIFA on the way out
Culture08 Jul 26
The Bridge: How a PinkPantheress–Kelela Link-Up Quietly Reset the 2026 Pop Conversation
Culture08 Jul 26
Belgium's World Cup jersey finds a new audience — and a 1938 painting is doing the talking
Culture08 Jul 26
Cemre Paksoy on 'Night Nurse' and the Limits of Turkish Erotic Cinema
Culture08 Jul 26
David Howard Thornton Steps Into a Slasher Heritage With ‘Behind the Mask II’
Opinion08 Jul 26
Bushehr in the crosshairs: the strikes that end the fiction of a return to diplomacy
Business08 Jul 26
Senegal's $50 million venture fund signals a quiet recalibration of African capital
Culture08 Jul 26
Belgium’s Magritte-Backed World Cup Shirt Plays the Long Game Between Art and Spectacle
Long Reads08 Jul 26
Explosions at Bushehr: what the early reporting actually says — and what it doesn't
Sport08 Jul 26
Argentina's comeback win over Egypt draws officiating complaint, with the title on the line
Culture08 Jul 26
Iran's foreign minister draws the line: 'vulgarity with action, not words'
Opinion08 Jul 26
Budapest's Refusal Meets Brussels' Consensus: Orbán Is Out, Magyar Is In, and Hungary Just Redrew the Line on Ukraine
Culture08 Jul 26
Tony Rayns, the British Critic Who Reframed East Asian Cinema for Western Audiences, Dies at 78
Opinion08 Jul 26
Trump tears up the Iran ceasefire on the NATO stage, and nobody blinked
Culture08 Jul 26
Trump declares Iran ceasefire 'over,' drawing warning from Madrid
Opinion08 Jul 26
Maine Democrats' scramble over Platner exposes a party still arguing about Israel
Opinion08 Jul 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz gamble, and the oil market that is about to find out
Opinion08 Jul 26
The Strait Cannot Hold: What the Iran-US Air-and-Sea Skirmish of July 8 Reveals About the End of the Long Deterrence
Opinion08 Jul 26
Tehran plays the Hormuz card before the cameras
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
Trump, NATO and the Iran endgame: a deal that won't sit still
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US strikes Iranian targets near Strait of Hormuz: what we know, and what we don't
Geopolitics08 Jul 26
US widens strikes on Iran as Tehran threatens regional bases, the night the war changed shape
Sport08 Jul 26
Norway's stunner over Brazil turns Haaland into a national symbol — and a market force
Opinion08 Jul 26
Karbala's crowds and the choreography of a martyrdom narrative
Sport08 Jul 26
Bieber joins World Cup final halftime bill as FIFA stacks the deck for the biggest broadcast of 2026
Opinion08 Jul 26
Strikes on Hormuz's edge: a widening US operation, and the framing it has not yet earned
Culture08 Jul 26
Asher White Announces Second Album of 2026, Continuing a Sprawling Catalog
Tech08 Jul 26
Tehran says US strikes breach war-ending memorandum, warns of response
Opinion08 Jul 26
Birthright by press release: Trump’s court-versus-court play and the $4,000 hustle it green-lights
Culture08 Jul 26