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Long Reads22 May 26
The Warsh Fed: What a White House Swearing-In Tells Us About the Central Bank's Future
Long Reads22 May 26
Wall Street's Oil Bet: How Energy Markets Are Becoming Crypto's Next Frontier
Opinion22 May 26
Wall Street's AI Dream vs. Main Street's Reality
Oceania22 May 26
Vivid Sydney Turns 16: What a Light Festival Reveals About Urban Cultural Strategy
MENA22 May 26
Video Evidence Emerges of Israeli Strike on Lebanese Paramedics Near Border
Americas22 May 26
Trump-era troop surge in Poland and Cuba ultimatum mark a sharper US posture — and a reckoning for hemispheric…
Africa22 May 26
US Sanctions Tanzanian Police Official Over Rights Activist Torture Claims as Weapons Pause Reshapes Taiwan Strait Arms…
MENA22 May 26
US Sanctions Iran's Incoming Beirut Envoy as Diplomatic Outreach Collides With Maximum Pressure
MENA22 May 26
US-Iran Talks Advance But Uranium Demand Threatens Deal Collapse
Europe22 May 26
US Approves $108 Million Hawk Missile Equipment Sale to Ukraine as Trump Vows 5,000 Extra Troops for Poland
Long Reads22 May 26
Ukraine Strikes Novorossiysk: A Port, an Oil Terminal, and the Widening Calculus of Black Sea War
Science22 May 26
UAE Rejects Netanyahu Visit as Regional Anger Over Gaza Overwhelms Normalisation Calculus
Africa22 May 26
Ankara's Quiet Energy Pivot: Turkey's Offshore Ambitions and the New Geopolitics of African Hydrocarbons
Culture22 May 26
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence; Deputy Aaron Lukas to Assume Acting Role
Long Reads22 May 26
The Quiet Exit: Tulsi Gabbard, Intelligence Accountability, and the Architecture of Disavowal
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Iran Gambit: War, Oil, and the Deal That Almost Wasn't
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump Returns to White House as Military Activities in Iran Escalate
MENA22 May 26
Trump's Uranium Vow Reshapes the US-Iran Calculus
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Uranium Ultimatum: What Washington's Demand on Tehran Costs — and What It Can't Buy
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Uranium Ultimatum: How Washington's Demand for Iran's Nuclear Stockpile Could Redraw Gulf Security
Energy22 May 26
Trump's uranium ultimatum puts Hormuz at the center of a new energy standoff
Culture22 May 26
Trump Taps Aaron Lucas as Acting Intelligence Chief at a Moment of Acute Global Volatility
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Rally Rhetoric and the Grammar of Political Absolution
Long Reads22 May 26
Troops and Silicon: What Trump's Poland Deployment and AI Order Delay Tell Us About American Power
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Poland Troop Surge and AI Executive Order Pause Signal a Realigned American Posture
Culture22 May 26
Trump Convenes National Security Team on Iran as Escalation Risk Mounts
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Iran ultimatum: the logic and limits of maximum pressure 2.0
MENA22 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Gasoline Pump arithmetic
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Fraying Architecture of Diplomatic Restraint
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump, Iran, and the Hormuz Strait: The Deal That Almost Nobody Believes Will Happen
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Iran Deal Theater: The Gap Between Presidential Bravado and the Diplomatic Record
Europe22 May 26
Trump's Germany Troop Withdrawal Exposes Transatlantic Rift as Rubio Admits US Cannot End Ukraine War
Long Reads22 May 26
The President's No-Show: Trump, Iran, and the Performance of Duty
Americas22 May 26
Trump Calls Cuba a 'Failed Country' — and Vows to Act. The History Suggests Otherwise.
Long Reads22 May 26
The Competition Doctrine Meets the Caribbean: How Trump's Cuba Play Intersects With the China AI Race
Long Reads22 May 26
The Counter-Puncher: Trump, Protest, and the Performance of Economic Authority
Culture22 May 26
Trump Convenes Emergency Iran War Council as Military Strikes Enter Second Week
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump Cancels Bedminster Trip, Stays at White House — What the Schedule Shift Signals About Iran
Europe22 May 26
Trump's 5,000-Troop Poland Deployment Tests NATO's Eastern Flank as Meloni Meeting Odds Hit 91%
Oceania22 May 26
Tony Abbott's Liberal Party Return Marks a Chapter in Australian Conservative Revival
Long Reads22 May 26
Three Months to Breaking Point: How the Iran War Is Quietly Repricing Every Barrel of Oil
The Weekly22 May 26
Three Decisions, One Signal: The Administration That Won't Look in the Mirror
Long Reads22 May 26
Tehran's Diplomatic Opening: Qatar's Mediation Gambit and the Nuclear Question Left for Later
Africa22 May 26
Starobilsk Strike Highlights Ukraine's Cross-Border Strike Doctrine as it Enters Fourth Year
Obituaries22 May 26
Six Dead in Starobelsk Drone Strike as Moscow Declares Mourning
Culture22 May 26
Star Wars Goes Back to the Big Screen With Grogu — and the Franchise Is Counting on Him
Culture22 May 26
Spotify and Universal's AI Remix Deal Rewrites the Rules on Fan-Made Music — and Artists Are Watching
Tech22 May 26
Spotify's AI Licensing Deal With UMG Rewrites the Rules for Machine-Generated Music
Sport22 May 26
Sports Betting Giants Bet Big on NBA and NHL Playoff Nights
Culture22 May 26
The Spectre of Multipolarity: How Russia and China Are Rewriting the Rules of Global Cultural Order
Long Reads22 May 26
Musk's Final Control: SpaceX Scrubs Starship V3 While Preparing a Monarch's IPO
Long Reads22 May 26
SpaceX Pauses Starship and Turns to Wall Street: The Stakes of Musk's $350 Billion Moment
Business22 May 26
SpaceX's Delayed Launch and the IPO Question: What Musk's Empire Means for Investors
Long Reads22 May 26
SpaceX's $75 Billion IPO and the Architecture of Private Spaceflight
Long Reads22 May 26
Silicon Whiskers: How China Is Weaponising Both Pandas and Robots to Reshape Its Global Image
Science22 May 26
Russia Wades Into Fresh US-Cuba Tensions With Foreign Ministry Statement
Long Reads22 May 26
The Whistling Sound: Inside Russia's Economic Performance Under Sanctions and the Gap Between Official Confidence and…
Americas22 May 26
Russia Condemns US Aircraft Carrier Deployment Near Cuba as 'Show of Military Force'
MENA22 May 26
Rubio Tells NATO Allies Trump Is 'Very Disappointed' Over Iran Stance As Base Access Tensions Mount
Oceania22 May 26
Quad Foreign Ministers Convene in New Delhi as Indo-Pacific Architecture Faces Fresh Stress Tests
Oceania22 May 26
Quad Foreign Ministers to Convene in New Delhi as Indo-Pacific Security Architecture Faces Fresh Stress Tests
Long Reads22 May 26
The Red Line in the Room: Qatari Diplomacy and the Fragile Quest for a US-Iran Deal
Long Reads22 May 26
Qatar's Tehran Shuttle: How a Small Gulf State Became the Invisible Backchannel in the Iran Nuclear Talks
Long Reads22 May 26
Qatar's Tehran Gambit: How a Small Gulf State Became the Backchannel Power Broker in the Iran-US Standoff
Long Reads22 May 26
The Back-Channel King: How Qatar Became America's Go-To Diplomat in the Iran Crisis
Long Reads22 May 26
Qatar in Tehran: The Back-Channel That Could End the Iran War
Long Reads22 May 26
Putin's School Strike Accusation Tests the Limits of Ukraine's Mobilisation Machine
Americas22 May 26
Prediction Markets Are Betting on Canadian Secession — and They're Not Wrong to Wonder
Long Reads22 May 26
The Invisible Hazard Inside Your Bag: Power Banks, Lithium Fires, and the Global Safety Gap
Long Reads22 May 26
The Performance of Power: Trump, the Rally Stage, and the Theater of 2026
Asia22 May 26
Pentagon Pauses $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Package as Strategic Uncertainty Grips U.S.-Asia Policy
Americas22 May 26
Pentagon Calls Canada 'Short' on Defense Credibility as F-35 Delays Drag Into 2026
Long Reads22 May 26
The Pensacola Gap: What Three Identical Telegrams Tell Us About State-Media Amplification
Long Reads22 May 26
Pandas and Ports: Beijing's Dual Strategy in the Western Hemisphere
Europe22 May 26
Pakistan Army Chief Arrives in Tehran as US Reports 'Slight Progress' in Iran Nuclear Talks
Defense22 May 26
Pakistan's Munir Flies to Tehran as Rubio Credits Islamabad With 'Admirable' Iran Mediation
Asia22 May 26
Pakistan and Iran Push Forward on Diplomatic Track as Regional Alliances Shift
Asia22 May 26
Pakistan, Iran Foreign Ministers Hold Follow-Up Meeting as Diplomatic Contacts Intensify
Letters22 May 26
Pakistan's Army Chief Lands in Tehran as Back-Channel Diplomat Between Iran and the United States
Science22 May 26
Orange's AI Oversight System Sparks National Strike as France Balances Tech Leadership and Worker Rights
Opinion22 May 26
Oil Markets Face a Reckoning as Middle East Tensions Complicate Supply Calculations
MENA22 May 26
Oil Markets Price In the Fallacy of a Quick Iran Resolution
Culture22 May 26
Npm's Trust Architecture Breaks Down: How 633 Malicious Packages Bypassed Sigstore Verification
Science22 May 26
AI Narrative Pushes NEAR Protocol Volume Past $1 Billion as Coin Clears Long-Term Trendline
Sport22 May 26
NBA Draft Combine Intel Shakes Up Late-Round Pick Projections
Long Reads22 May 26
NATO Steps Back, Iran Steps In: The Quiet Contest for the World's Most Strategic Chokepoint
Europe22 May 26
NATO Courts Sweden While Betting Markets Price American Exit Risk
Long Reads22 May 26
The Munitions Pause: What Washington's Taiwan Arms Hold Tells Us About the Iran Calculus
Europe22 May 26
Modi's European Tour Signals India's Intent to Reshape Its Strategic Partnerships
Long Reads22 May 26
How Minnesota's Local Banks Are Taking on Wall Street for Control of Crypto's Future
Africa22 May 26
From Ankara to Doha: The Middle Corridor Powers Trying to Broker a US-Iran Understanding
Science22 May 26
Meta Settles Social Media Addiction Case with Kentucky School District
Obituaries22 May 26
Merz Ukraine Associate Proposal Tests EU Unity as Brussels Signals Skepticism
Long Reads22 May 26
Markets Are Pricing an Iran Deal. The Logistics Say Otherwise.
Opinion22 May 26
The Market Cheered. America Didn't.
Opinion22 May 26
The market is betting on AI. Everyone else is asking for a refund.
Opinion22 May 26
Zohran Mamdani's Unmoderated Twitch Debut Is Not a Glitch — It Is the Experiment
Africa22 May 26
Mali Rebels Down Russian Shahed Drone in First Confirmed Intercept, Raising Questions Over Sahel Air Operations
Africa22 May 26
Malema's Generational Reparations Demand Exposes Fault Lines in South Africa-West Relations
Culture22 May 26
Lupita Nyong'o Defends Her Helen of Troy Casting as an Opportunity, Not a Controversy
MENA22 May 26
Lebanese health ministry reports 3,111 dead as Israeli strikes enter third month
Americas22 May 26
Latin America's Palestine Solidarity Faces a Reckoning as the Right Consolidates Power
Oceania22 May 26
Last Australian IS-linked families depart Syrian camp as repatriation programme nears completion
Long Reads22 May 26
Kremlin's 'Terrorist' Label and Hungary's Border Curbs: Pressure on Kyiv From Two Directions
Sport22 May 26
Knicks Mount Dominant Comeback, Take 2-0 Lead Against Cavaliers in Eastern Conference Finals
Sport22 May 26
Knicks Eye 2-0 Series Lead as Cavaliers Look to Reset at Madison Square Garden
Long Reads22 May 26
Trump's Fed Pick Sworn In By Thomas: What Kevin Warsh's Ascension Means For American Monetary Policy
Long Reads22 May 26
Kevin Warsh Takes the Fed Helm: What "Independence" Means When the White House Hosts the Ceremony
Long Reads22 May 26
Kenya sounds Ebola alarm as new Central African strain tests global health architecture
Europe22 May 26
JR's Inflatable Cave Installation Divides Paris — and Redraws the City's Public Art Contract
Sport22 May 26
Josh Hart's 26 Lifts Knicks to 2-0 Series Lead
MENA22 May 26
Israeli Strikes Hit Multiple Targets Across Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Escalation Continues
MENA22 May 26
Israeli Strikes Hit Three Lebanese Border Villages as Cross-Border Tensions Escalate
Africa22 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Target Buildings in Lebanon's Coastal City of Tyre
Long Reads22 May 26
The Targeters: How Israel's Lebanon Sanctions Campaign Is Erasing Emergency Response
Long Reads22 May 26
Iran's Red Line: How Enriched Uranium Became the Fault Line in Nuclear Diplomacy
Science22 May 26
Iran-US Nuclear Talks Persist Without Resolution as Pakistani Mediation Role Grows
MENA22 May 26
Iran Tightens Grip on Hormuz: The Diplomatic and Military Architecture of a Vital Chokepoint
Long Reads22 May 26
The 35 Ships: How Iran's Revolutionary Guard Positions Itself as the Strait of Hormuz's Security Anchor
Culture22 May 26
Iran's President Seeks Review of Cultural Revolution Entrance Exam Resolution
Long Reads22 May 26
Inside the Iran-Pakistan Diplomatic Thaw: Qatar, Pakistan, and the Quiet Search for a Ceasefire
Tech22 May 26
Iran and Oman Edge Toward Permanent Strait of Hormuz Fee System as Gulf Tensions Mount
Europe22 May 26
Iran nuclear talks: US and Tehran near memorandum as Rubio flags European war limits
Asia22 May 26
Iran Nuclear Talks Stuck in Familiar Place as Both Sides Reject Flexibility Claims
Energy22 May 26
Iran Nuclear Talks: The Enrichment Line Washington Cannot Seem to Cross
Long Reads22 May 26
Iran Nuclear Talks Hit Deep Freeze as Enriched Uranium Dispute Resurfaces
Science22 May 26
Iran Nuclear Talks: Sources Say Discussions Continue Amid Persistent Gaps
MENA22 May 26
Iran's Military Drums Beat Louder as US Shipping Blockade Tightens
Culture22 May 26
After Khamenei and Raisi, What Comes Next for Iran's Islamic Republic?
Defense22 May 26
Iranian Foreign Ministry Denounces 'Illegal Military Aggression' as US-Israel Strikes Escalate Regional Tensions
Culture22 May 26
Iran's Education Ministry Releases Guidelines on Academic Record Weighting for University Admissions
MENA22 May 26
Iran's Diplomatic Red Line: 'Rights, Not Concessions' Reshapes the Nuclear Talks Frame
Science22 May 26
Iranian Officials Condemn US Military Action as 'Blatant Aggression' and UN Charter Violation
Letters22 May 26
India's market surge reveals a broader recalculation in emerging-market finance
Arts22 May 26
When Museums Become Diplomatic Instruments: The India-Iran Exhibition and What Cultural Exchange Conceals
Long Reads22 May 26
India's Financial Sovereignty Reckoning: Monetary Independence, Aviation Ambitions, and the Prediction Markets Crackdown
Letters22 May 26
Courts as last refuge: five verdicts show India's legal system under pressure
Asia22 May 26
India abstains as US, Russia reject UN climate resolution — and heat pushes its courts to breaking point
Long Reads22 May 26
Hyperliquid's $HYPE Rally to $15B Market Cap Exposes the Quiet Centralization of Decentralized Finance
Europe22 May 26
Hungary refinery blast becomes political currency in Budapest's push for Ukraine security guarantees
Obituaries22 May 26
Hungary Mourns as MOL Refinery Blast Prompts Political Reckoning Over Budapest Memorandum
Opinion22 May 26
The Human Cost Nobody Counts: Mental Health in Israel, Violence in Gaza, and the Price of Permanent Conflict
Long Reads22 May 26
The Hormuz Toll: How Iran Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of the Strait
Long Reads22 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How US-Iran Naval Pressure and Drone Losses Are Redrawing Gulf Risk
Long Reads22 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How a Strait Became the World's Most Contested Waterway
MENA22 May 26
Hezbollah Claims Drone Strike on Israeli Barracks; Al Alam Reports Casualties, Helicopter Evacuations
Sport22 May 26
Josh Hart's Playoff Career-High Propels Knicks to Commanding 2-0 Series Lead Over Cavs
Obituaries22 May 26
Greenland Speaks, Congress Stalls: Two Signals From a Fracturing Western Alliance
Long Reads22 May 26
The Greenland Gambit: How Washington's Arctic Play Reveals a Reshaping of the Western Order
Science22 May 26
Government Stakes in Tech: Prediction Markets Place Their Bets on Micron, IonQ and Anduril
Sport22 May 26
Gerrit Cole's Return Marks a Pivotal Moment for Yankees Rotation
Long Reads22 May 26
Germany's Hormuz Gambit: Berlin's Unilateral Turn and the Fracturing of NATO Consensus
Long Reads22 May 26
Gaza's Permanent Emergency: Why Al-Zaytoun Keeps Coming Back Into Focus
Culture22 May 26
Gabbard Resignation Report Strains Intelligence Continuity at Critical Iran Moment
Culture22 May 26
The Fourth Chair: What Tulsi Gabbard's Exit Tells Us About Trump's Revolving Cabinet
Tech22 May 26
Five Years of CPU Demand: Why the AI Infrastructure Boom Is Outpacing Its Own Evidence
Long Reads22 May 26
The Fifty-Fifty Republic: How US-Iran Nuclear Talks Became a Market and Diplomatic Fixed Point
Sport22 May 26
Fantasy Sports Has Quietly Rewritten How Americans Follow Baseball
Sport22 May 26
F1 Green Light Signals Start of High-Stakes Montreal Weekend
Europe22 May 26
Europe's Energy Bill: Why High Oil and Gas Prices May Outlast the Green Transition
Business22 May 26
EU and Mexico Sign Modernized Trade Agreement, Rewriting North American Economic Geometry
Europe22 May 26
EU and Mexico Sign Bilateral Agreement to Lower Tariffs, Broadening Trade Diversification
Long Reads22 May 26
The Erasure of First Responders: Inside Israel's Targeted Killings of Lebanese Medics
Long Reads22 May 26
The Embargo at 64: Why Washington's Longest-Running Sanctions Regime Keeps Failing Cuba—and Everyone Else
Long Reads22 May 26
The Quiet Emergency: Inside the DRC Ebola Outbreak the World Almost Missed
Long Reads22 May 26
How the Dollar Became the Real Stakes of the US-Iran Nuclear Talks
Long Reads22 May 26
Doha's Tehran Gambit: Can Qatar Bridge the US-Iran Divide?
Long Reads22 May 26
Doha's Quiet Diplomacy: How Qatar Built the Bridge Washington Needed
Long Reads22 May 26
Diplomacy's Last Card: Pakistan's Quiet Pivot in the US-Iran Nuclear Standoff
Long Reads22 May 26
The Crypto-Finance Frontier: Why Infrastructure Deals Matter More Than Token Prices
Long Reads22 May 26
Congress Wants Answers: Inside the Crackdown on Prediction Market Insider Trading
Africa22 May 26
Congo's Ebola Crisis and the World's Familiar Script
Culture22 May 26
The Man Who Said No to the Internet: Christopher Nolan's Analog Life in a Digital World
Asia22 May 26
China-Russia Summit in Beijing Sends Measured but Deliberate Signal to Washington
Asia22 May 26
China's Algorithmic Governance Push and the Strategic Mineral Buildout Underneath It
Culture22 May 26
Former CDC Director Warns Ebola Could Become a 'Very Significant Pandemic'
Obituaries22 May 26
Carlo Petrini, Founder of the Slow Food Movement, Dies at 76
Culture22 May 26
Cannes Becomes Stage for Political Declaration as Filmmakers Rally Around Palestine
Culture22 May 26
Cannes Entry 'Coward' Offers a Humanising Lens on the First World War
Energy22 May 26
Bloomberg Warned of Recession Risk as Strait of Hormuz Stays Closed Through August 2026
Long Reads22 May 26
Bitcoin's Quiet Quarter: How a 90-Day Winning Streak and SEC Approval Exposed the Market's Structural Drift
Long Reads22 May 26
Beijing and Islamabad's Ukrainian Gambit: Inside the China-Pakistan Five-Point Peace Initiative
Culture22 May 26
Bezos Defends Melania Documentary as Amazon Defends Its Expanding Hollywood Ambitions
Opinion22 May 26
Trump's AI Security Order Delay Is Not Incoherence — It Is the Point
Tech22 May 26
The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Executives See Nothing While Workers Feel Everything
Opinion22 May 26
AI's Bull Run and America's Squeezed Majority Are the Same Story
Culture22 May 26
The AI Assistant Glut: Silicon Valley Pushes a Toolset Consumers Haven't Asked For
Americas22 May 26
After Maduro, Cuba: What Washington's Indictment Machine Actually Delivers
Long Reads22 May 26
Africa's Quiet Frontline: Kenya, a New Ebola Strain, and the Race for Therapeutic Response
Africa22 May 26
Africa's Digital Leap Is Real. Its Healthcare Reckoning Is Coming
Long Reads22 May 26
35 Ships and Counting: How Iran's Hormuz 'Toll Booth' Exposed the Limits of American Leverage
Long Reads22 May 26
The 19 Percent Problem: How US-Iran Nuclear Talks Expose the Limits of Economic Coercion
MENA22 May 26
US Freezes Taiwan Arms Sale as Iran Deal Signals Push Oil Below $90
Long Reads22 May 26
The RetreatFrom the Pump: Fuel Costs and the New American Spending Squeeze
Tech22 May 26
Drone Footage From Ukraine War Exposes Double-Edged Nature of Battlefield Tech
Culture22 May 26
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence, Early Reports Say
Europe22 May 26
Trump ties Poland troop surge to stock market record in twin announcements
The Weekly22 May 26
Trump Media's Bitcoin Bet Is Bleeding — and Washington Looks the Other Way
Markets22 May 26
Trump's Kura Sushi Bet Highlights Investor Interest in Meme Stocks Amid Political Context
Long Reads22 May 26