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Long Reads30 May 26
China's Ghost Kitchen Crackdown and the Hidden Costs of Platform Capitalism

Asia30 May 26
Beijing's Dual Pressure Test: Regulatory Cleanup and the Quiet Crisis at China's State Automakers
Asia30 May 26
Beijing embeds digital yuan into fiscal machinery as tariff pressure mounts

Europe30 May 26
Zelensky Signs EU Loan Agreement Bill Into Law

Letters30 May 26
Opposite logics: the White House hosts a spectacle while withholding the president's medical file

Sport30 May 26
Victor Wembanyama Dominates Game 6 as San Antonio Forces Winner-Take-All Finale

MENA30 May 26
U.S. Missile Stockpile Depletion Exposes Strategic Vulnerability After Iran Strikes

Americas30 May 26
US Military Deployment to Caribbean Amid Rising Regional Tensions and Iran Nuclear Talks Stalemate
Long Reads30 May 26
The Ceasefire That Cannot Escape Its Own Shadow: Inside the US-Iran Nuclear Impasse

Defense30 May 26
US Accelerates European Troop Withdrawal: What NATO Allies Stand to Lose

Letters30 May 26
Upper Galilee and Golan Under Fresh Barrage as Israel Grapples With Multi-Vector Threat

Climate30 May 26
Ukraine's Drone Campaign Burns Through Russian Oil Infrastructure — and the Climate Bill Is Mounting
Europe30 May 26
UK Repurposes RFA Lyme Bay for Minehunting Mission in Strait of Hormuz
MENA30 May 26
UFC at the White House and the Dimming of an Iran Deal
Defense30 May 26
Twenty Ships, One Waterway: How Iran Manages the World's Most Contested Strait

Asia30 May 26
Turkey and Japan Signal Joint Ambitions in Drone Development

Opinion30 May 26
Trump's Kennedy Center Reversal Is Surrender Dressified as Triumph
Long Reads30 May 26
Trump, Tehran, and the 60-Day Ceasefire: What the Talks Reveal About US-Iran Diplomacy

MENA30 May 26
Trump Leaves Situation Room Without Final Call on Iran Deal
Opinion30 May 26
Trump's Kennedy Center Retreat Exposes the Hollowness of Executive Cultural Capture
The Weekly30 May 26
The Ceasefire That Isn't: Trump's Iran Victory Lap Runs Into Ground Truth
MENA30 May 26
Trump Signals Conditions for Iran Nuclear Talks but Holds Back From Decision
The Weekly30 May 26
Trump Reaches No Decision on Iran Nuclear Framework, Reports Say
Long Reads30 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: How the Iran Nuclear Deal Became a Strait of Hormuz Story
MENA30 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Dilemma: War, Ceasefire, or a Nuclear Deal That Neither Side Wants

Americas30 May 26
Trump Administration Faces Legal Setback While Floating Cuba Invasion
The Weekly30 May 26
Trump's Black Sea Gambit: Lifting the Blockade and the Illusion of Diplomatic Leverage

Culture30 May 26
Therapy as Creative Brief: Myles Smith and the New Grammar of Pop Vulnerability

Arts30 May 26
The $9,100 Username: Telegram's Fragment Market and the Hidden Economy of Banned Handles
Long Reads30 May 26
The Taganrog Strike: What Ukraine's Deep Raid Tells Us About the War's New Phase
Long Reads30 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Is Becoming the Fulcrum of a New Global Energy Crisis

Asia30 May 26
Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Drive Oil to $160 Forecast as Japan Imports Plunge
Long Reads30 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Is Testing the Limits of Coercive Diplomacy
Letters30 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Is Choking. Wall Street Pretends It Isn't
Long Reads30 May 26
The Strait and the Bomb: How US-Iran Talks Fell Apart and What Comes Next

Sport30 May 26
Steve Clarke Extends Scotland Tenure to 2030 World Cup as Gilmour Injury Casts Shadow Over Preparation

Sport30 May 26
Spurs-Thunder Game 7 Marks First Winner-Take-All WCF Since 2018 as Historic Series Reaches Climax

Defense30 May 26
SpaceX's Government Gravy Train: $6 Billion in Space Force Contracts Sets Stage for IPO

Investigations30 May 26
U.S. Military Strikes Vessel Linked to Designated Terrorist Organization in Eastern Pacific
Long Reads30 May 26
The Situation Room and the $78,000 Question: What Trump's Iran Indecision Means for Markets and Geopolitics

Africa30 May 26
Sheep Armor and Other Certainties: European Social Media's Africa Problem
The Weekly30 May 26
Seventeen Times in One Night: Northern Israel's Uninterrupted Crisis
Long Reads30 May 26
Saltibarsciai and the Strait: How Lithuania Became the Test Case for European Strategic Autonomy

Culture30 May 26
Sajid Javid Reckons With the Truss Error — And Says Good Riddance to Reform Defectors

Energy30 May 26
Russian Gas, Western Ambition: Armenia's Impossible Pivot

Culture30 May 26
The Aesthetics of Armed Narrative: How Resistance Movements Weaponise Documentary Film
Culture30 May 26
Ramadan as Statecraft: How Iran Wove National Resilience Into Its Holiest Month

Long Reads30 May 26
The Quiet Architecture of State Power: How Tehran's Nuclear Negotiators and Warsaw's Arts Committee Reveal the Same…

Obituaries30 May 26
The Public Trial After Trisha Sharma's Death
Letters30 May 26
The Prediction Market President: How Polymarket Bets Became the New Editorial Meeting

Europe30 May 26
Poland's Diplomatic Fracture: When Foreign Policy Becomes Campaign Fodder
Long Reads30 May 26
Poland's Bold Bet on Art: Tusk's Government Puts Artists on the Payroll — and Wagers Political Capital on Cultural…

Science30 May 26
Open-Source Maps and Prediction Markets Are Reading Ukraine's War Differently
Long Reads30 May 26
Operation Economic Fury: How Washington's Financial Siege on Iran Is Reshaping the Architecture of Global Sanctions
Letters30 May 26
Oil Slides as Trump Hesitates on Iran — Markets Price Ceasefire Diplomacy
Business30 May 26
Oil's 20% May Rout Exposes the Fracture Lines Beneath the Strait of Hormuz Standoff
MENA30 May 26
Oil Dips as Trump Pauses on Iran Nuclear Talks: Market Jitters Return
Opinion30 May 26
Northern Israel's Displaced Are Still Waiting for the Government to Deliver
Long Reads30 May 26
Northern Fire: Hezbollah's Expanded Operations and the Unraveling Quiet on Israel's Border
Long Reads30 May 26
The New Architecture of Coercion: How Washington Is Waging Economic War on Iran — and What Tehran Can Still Do

Europe30 May 26
Berlin and UN sound alarm as Netanyahu pushes forward with expanded Gaza occupation plan
Europe30 May 26
Meta's Workplace Tracking Tool Puts EU Privacy Rules to the Test

Culture30 May 26
Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning Editor Behind the Original Star Wars Trilogy, Dies at 80
Letters30 May 26
Manila's Quiet Alarm: After the Trump-Xi Handshake, the South China Sea Stays Hot

Culture30 May 26
How Malaysia's MACC Film Became a Battleground for Political Messaging

Africa30 May 26
Madlanga Commission Exposes Alleged Cocaine Thefts and Bribe Denials in South Africa Inquiry

Obituaries30 May 26
The Longevity Play: Age, Power, and the Geopolitics of Perception
Culture30 May 26
Art and Ambiguity: London's Iranian Biennale Opens Against a Backdrop of Regional Tensions

Geopolitics30 May 26
Liverpool's Arne Slot Sacking Exposes the Brutal Arithmetic of Modern Club Football

MENA30 May 26
Lebanon Says Israeli Strikes Expanding Beyond Stated Targets as Ceasefire Frays
MENA30 May 26
Lebanon Demands Ceasefire as Israel Strikes Spread Beyond Prior Targets
Long Reads30 May 26
The Numbers Behind the Headlines: Lebanon's Civilian Casualties and the Architecture of Underreported Conflict
MENA30 May 26
Lebanese Health Ministry Reports 3,371 Dead in Cross-Border Fighting Since March

Long Reads30 May 26
Kiryat Shmona Under Fire: Hezbollah's Escalating Rocket Campaign and the Fracturing Northern Front
Long Reads30 May 26
The Kennedy Center Ruling, the Courts, and the Fragile Architecture of Executive Restraint
Culture30 May 26
The Kennedy Center Ruling and the Politics of American Memorialization
Culture30 May 26
Judge Orders Trump's Name Removed From Kennedy Center Within Two Weeks
Culture30 May 26
Judge Blocks Trump's Kennedy Center Rebrand — And the President Responds by Walking Away

Long Reads30 May 26
Japan's AI Pivot: OpenAI's Banking Deal, Intelligence Reform, and the Hidden Architecture of a Technology State

Defense30 May 26
Israeli Strikes Kill Five in Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Exchange Intensifies
MENA30 May 26
Israeli Strikes Target Lebanese Army Vehicle as Ceasefire Architecture Shows Fresh Fractures

Energy30 May 26
Israeli Lebanon Push Collides With US-Iran Diplomacy as Trump Nears Final Decision
Science30 May 26
Israeli Forces Strike Vehicle in Nabatieh as Southern Lebanon Security Situation Deteriorates
Tech30 May 26
Israeli Forces Cross Litani River in Lebanon Escalation
Letters30 May 26
Israeli Forces Cross the Litani as Hezbollah Resumes Southern Lebanon Operations
Letters30 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Wound Two Lebanese Soldiers Day After Washington Talks
MENA30 May 26
Israeli Forces Cross the Litani River for First Time Since 2006, Entering Nabatieh City
Letters30 May 26
Iranian Naval Mine Detected in Strait of Hormuz as US Blockade Escalates Energy Fears
Long Reads30 May 26
The Mine in the Strait: What Tehran's Found Weapon Reveals About Hormuz's New Normal
Intelligence30 May 26
Iranian Military Locates Downed Drone Wreckage in Persian Gulf Near Qeshm Island
MENA30 May 26
Iran Tightens Grip on Strait of Hormuz as Regional Conflict Escalates Energy Risk
MENA30 May 26
Iran Rejects Trump’s ‘Breakthrough' Claim as Nuclear Talks Enter Critical Phase
Intelligence30 May 26
Iranian Strike on Kuwaiti Airbase Tests US Deterrence Architecture
MENA30 May 26
Iran Drone Interception and Hormuz Standoff Deepen Energy Risk
Long Reads30 May 26
Iran Says It Downed an Israeli-American Drone Over Qeshm. What the Incident Reveals About Shifting Air-War Dynamics in…
Energy30 May 26
Iran Claims Sole Authority Over Strait of Hormuz as US Talks Enter Critical Phase

Science30 May 26
Iran Border Guards Kill Two Armed Elements in Faraja Sector Clash
Americas30 May 26
Iran Relocates 2026 World Cup Training Base to Mexico Amid US Visa Uncertainty
MENA30 May 26
Iran State Media Outlines $12 Billion Asset-Release Claim in Emerging US-Iran Framework
Asia30 May 26
India's Courts Draw a Line on Platform Accountability: Google Pays Damages as Delhi Upholds Digital Brand Rights
Long Reads30 May 26
The Index and the Strait: Wall Street's Quiet Bet on American-Iranian Diplomacy
Long Reads30 May 26
The Strait at the Center of Everything: Hormuz, Hormuz, Hormuz
Long Reads30 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How Trump’s Iran Blockade Release Became a Diplomatic Mirage
Long Reads30 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How a Narrow Waterway Became the World's Flashpoint
Long Reads30 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How Iran's Chokepoint Became the World's Problem
Markets30 May 26
Hormuz Deadlock: Oil Markets Brace as US-Iran Talks Stall Over World's Most Strategic Chokepoint
Letters30 May 26
Hormuz in the Crossfire: Commercial Shipping Caught Between US Blockade and Iranian Counter-pressure
Long Reads30 May 26
The Hormuz Claim: Hegseth, Hydrocarbons, and the Geometry of Strait Control
Long Reads30 May 26
The Strait at the Edge: How America's Iranian Port Blockade Is Redrawing the Map of Global Energy
Long Reads30 May 26
The Video Was the Message: Hezbollah's Media Warfare and the New Battlefield of Perception
Intelligence30 May 26
Hezbollah Releases Footage of Southern Lebanon Operations as Drone Strikes Test Northern Israeli Defenses
Letters30 May 26
Hezbollah Fires Large Rocket Barrage at Karmiel, Northern Israel Intercepts Missiles

Letters30 May 26
Hezbollah Drone Strike Escalates Lebanon Front as Netanyahu Calls Emergency Meeting
Europe30 May 26
Hezbollah drone footage and UK petition put competing pressures on regional narratives

Asia30 May 26
Hegseth Warns of China’s 'Historic Military Buildup' as Pacific Balance Shifts

Asia30 May 26
Hegseth's Singapore signal: India as anchor, China as counterweight

Asia30 May 26
Hegseth's Shangri-La Warning: US Sounds Alarm on China Without Reaching for the Trigger
The Weekly30 May 26
The Hard-Power Doctrine: Hegseth's Alarm and the Fraying Architecture of Asia-Pacific Stability
Europe30 May 26
Hamas Condemns EU Sanctions Extension as 'Biased Toward the Occupation'

Long Reads30 May 26
The Quiet Meeting on Cuba's Shore: What the Guantanamo Dialogue Tells Us About Shifting US-Latin American Relations
Asia30 May 26
Godzilla El Niño Threatens to Upend Asian Food Security

Africa30 May 26
Ghana Draws a Line on 'Promotion': Parliament Votes Africa's Latest Anti-LGBTQ Law

Europe30 May 26
German Foreign Minister Warns Against Attempts to Intimidate Berlin Over Ukraine Stance
Obituaries30 May 26
Gaza Civil Defense Reports 29 Killed During Eid al-Adha as Strikes Hit Near Firas Market
Arts30 May 26
The French Military's Quiet Revolution, Through a Lens

Science30 May 26
The F-16 in 2026: Can America's Workhorse Fighter Survive the Next Generation of Warfare?
Letters30 May 26
EU Blacklists Hamas Politburo as Gaza Ceasefire Talks Remain Stalled
Obituaries30 May 26
Eleven Killed Including Paramedic as Israeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanon
Obituaries30 May 26
Eileen Wang, Arcadia's Former Mayor Who Pleaded Guilty to Acting as a Chinese Agent, Dies at 68

Opinion30 May 26
The Dual Doctrine: West's AI Kill Switch and the Dollar's Long Game in Tehran
Science30 May 26
Drone Sighting Prompts Munich Airport Shutdown as Aviation Security Questions Resurface
Science30 May 26
Drone Incident in Romania Raises Questions Over Black Sea Airspace Security

Americas30 May 26
Dominion Dynamics Wins C$71M Contract for Autonomous Weapon Prototype Optimized for Royal Canadian Air Force
Long Reads30 May 26
The Dollar, The Port, and The Bluff: How Trump is Weaponizing Uncertainty on Iran
Americas30 May 26
How Cuba's Tehran Ties Survive the Western Pressure Architecture

Culture30 May 26
Congressional Closed-Door Session on Epstein Links Puts Trump-Era Justice Officials in the Hot Seat

Americas30 May 26
Colombia's Mavecure Mountains: A Post-Conflict Frontier Opens to the World

Europe30 May 26
The City of London and the Architecture of Quiet Influence

Arts30 May 26
Third Octagon Installation Detected at China's Lop Nur Nuclear Test Site, OSINT Analysis Shows

Science30 May 26
China's dual exposure: trade legislation and scientific credibility under the microscope
Asia30 May 26
China's AI Governance Gambit and the South China Sea Test
Long Reads30 May 26
The Cartographers of War: How Open-Source Intelligence Became the Conflict's Backbone
Americas30 May 26
Carney's Ottawa Gambit: Canada Charts a Tricontinental Course as Washington Reshapes the Order
Americas30 May 26
Canada's Technical Recession Tests the Limits of Northern Confidence
Economy30 May 26
Trump Currency Proposal Overshadows Iran Crypto Seizure as Treasury Makes Billion-Dollar Claim
Africa30 May 26
AI Goes to Africa: The New Frontier in Great Power Competition
Americas30 May 26
AI Automation and the Cuba Gambit: Washington's Converging Crises

Asia30 May 26
Shangri-La Dialogue Meets Hormuz Crisis: Asia's Defense and Energy Fault Lines Converge

Defense30 May 26
Iran's Top Advisor Accuses Trump of 'Betraying Diplomacy' Over Naval Blockade
Long Reads30 May 26
Inside the Iran Deal: How Trump Got to Yes on Frozen Assets

Defense30 May 26
Hegseth's Dual Signal: Armed Ukraine, Armored Against China

Long Reads30 May 26
The Great Unlearning: How Washington's Health Revolution Mirrors Its Economic Recklessness

Long Reads30 May 26
The Secret War Nobody Announced: UAE Airstrikes, Regional Coordination, and the Fiction of Ceasefire
Culture30 May 26
Trump's Third-Rate Problem: When Politics Meets the Stage

Long Reads30 May 26
The Great Decoupling: How Trump's Auto Content Rules Will Redraw North American Manufacturing
Investigations30 May 26
Texas SB4 and the Administrative Enforcement Pivot: An Investigation Into the DOJ's Shifting Legal Strategy
Opinion30 May 26
SpaceX's IPO Filing Confirms It: The Commercial Space Age Is Still a State Project
Obituaries30 May 26
The Man Who Would Not Die: Inside Putin's Obsession with Living Forever

Science30 May 26
Microsoft and Nightmare Eclipse Are Fighting Over How — and When — Security Flaws Should Go Public
Asia30 May 26
India's Regulatory Turn: Courts and Watchdogs Tighten the Reins on Big Tech

Arts30 May 26
German School Assignment Sparks Backlash Over Brothel Design Task
Arts30 May 26
Dragon Quest XII Protagonist Reveal Sparks Fan Backlash Over Design Choices
Opinion30 May 26
Canada's Quiet Recession Exposes the Limits of a G7 Economy That Nobody Talks About

Americas30 May 26
Brazil Launches Ebola Probe as São Paulo Suspected Case Triggers Regional Health Alert
Americas30 May 26
Anthropic Crosses $1 Trillion as Canada Enters Technical Recession — One Story Is a Party, the Other Is a Warning
Culture30 May 26
Aleppo's Long Road Back: Inside the Archaeology of a City's Reconstruction

Culture30 May 26
WHO Chief's Ebola Mission to DR Congo: On the Ground Reality Behind the Headlines

Long Reads30 May 26
Twenty Ships and the World's Most Strategic Chokepoint

Science30 May 26
PSG's Champions League Win Marred by Paris Rioting as Police Detain Dozens

Letters30 May 26
Hegseth's $1.5 Trillion Bet: Defense Buildup and the Iran Deal That Wasn't

Africa30 May 26
Ebola Returns to Congo as Cases Near 1,030 and WHO Chief Arrives in Bunia

Europe30 May 26
Denmark Expels Iranian Diplomat Over Intelligence Allegations as Tehran Denies Wrongdoing
Europe30 May 26
Tusk Calls on NATO to Treat Medvedev's 'End of Peaceful Sleep' Warning as a Genuine Threat

Sport30 May 26
Spurs Thunder Set For Winner Take All Showdown In Game Seven
Sport30 May 26
Spurs-Thunder Game 7: Dylan Harper and the Stakes of a Franchise Defining Night

Sport30 May 26
Twenty Years in the Making: Carolina Hurricanes Eliminate Canadiens, Head to Stanley Cup Final

Culture30 May 26
Lithuania's Pink Soup Festival Puts a Centuries-Old Dish on the Global Stage

Opinion30 May 26
The Hunger Games Economy: How Governments Stopped Treating Food as a Market

Europe30 May 26
Arsenal and PSG Serve Up Champions League Semifinal Warning Shot as Dembélé Cancels Early Opener
Europe30 May 26
Arsenal see off PSG to set up all-European Champions League final against PSG

Oceania30 May 26
All Blacks' Dublin Result Offers Template for England Series — If It Holds

Defense30 May 26
Romania Pushes NATO for Accelerated Air Defense Build-Up After Drone Incursion

Culture30 May 26
Lebanon's Fractured State and the Widening Southern Security Crisis

The Weekly30 May 26
Hezbollah Video Shows Merkava Strike as Israeli Ground Operations Expand Into Southern Lebanon

Long Reads30 May 26
The Drone Doctrine: How Washington's Pivot on Ukraine Is Rewriting the Rules of Western Defense

Long Reads30 May 26
The Accountability Gap: Trump, Zelensky, and the Architecture of Executive Discretion

Opinion30 May 26
The North Doesn't Sleep: How Border Communities Become Invisible in the Coverage Economy

Americas30 May 26
Madrid rally targets US energy embargo as Cuban solidarity movement finds new European footing

Business30 May 26
The Federal Reserve's Credibility Problem Is Getting Harder to Ignore

Letters30 May 26
Hezbollah strikes Nahariya as siren count tops 1,099 since November ceasefire

Obituaries30 May 26
Hezbollah Claims Deadly Strike on Israeli Convoy Near Dibbine

Long Reads30 May 26
The White House-as-Arena: Trump, the UFC, and the Blurring of Executive Office and Private Enterprise
Long Reads30 May 26
The $620 Million Question: White House Intervention, Private Deals, and the Architecture of Presidential Conflict

Culture30 May 26
Uranium, Sanctions, and the Silence Between the Lines
Opinion30 May 26
The Claw, the Contract, and the President: Trump Turns the White House Into an Arena
Long Reads30 May 26
Trump, TKO, and the White House: A Stock Purchase That Tests the Limits of Presidential Ethics

Sport30 May 26
Spurs Thunder Game 7: A Historic Night Arrives in San Antonio

Letters30 May 26
The Month in Marginal Gains: Three Signs of India's Quiet Shift
Long Reads30 May 26
The Drone, the Dow, and the Doctor: What the White House Drone Port Tells Us About Information Management in the Second…
Long Reads30 May 26