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Long Reads21 May 26
SpaceX Takes the Billionaire's Last Private Company Public — and Sets Up the Most Consequential IPO in History
Markets21 May 26
SpaceX Files for $SPCX IPO in Largest-Ever Listing Gambit
Long Reads21 May 26
SpaceX's Bitcoin Bet: What the 18,712 BTC Disclosure Tells Us About Musk's Corporate Financial Architecture
Asia21 May 26
South Korea's Liberal Party Tests Conservative Heartland in Daegu Mayoral Race
Asia21 May 26
South Korea's Market Roars Back as Samsung Strike Ends and AI Chipmaker FuriosaAI Rises
MENA21 May 26
Settler Violence Surges Across West Bank as Accountability Gap Widens
The Weekly21 May 26
The Sanctions Rift and the Nuclear Signal: Three Developments Converging on the Ukraine War
Long Reads21 May 26
Sanaa Draws the Line: Yemen's Warning to Washington on Iran
Culture21 May 26
Russian Sweets and Birch Sap: How Sanctions Pushed Moscow's Consumer Brands Into China
Defense21 May 26
Russia Confirms Tactical Nuclear Weapons Deployed to Belarus in Joint Exercise
Long Reads21 May 26
The Calculus of Forward-Deployed Arsenals: Russia, Belarus, and the New Nuclear Geometry
Energy21 May 26
Rubio's NATO Rebuke and the Iran Deal: What the Diplomatic Chaos Means for Oil Markets
MENA21 May 26
Rubio Applies Iran Playbook to Cuba as Havana Draws Deeper Into Moscow–Beijing Orbit
Africa21 May 26
Rubio's Ebola Dismissal Exposes a Longstanding Hierarchy in Global Health Politics
Long Reads21 May 26
The Rogue State Gambit: What Washington's Cuba Policy Reveals About Hegemonic Overreach
Culture21 May 26
Rami Malek Brings Musical Fantasy to Cannes as Girl in Red Makes Festival Debut
Culture21 May 26
Rami Malek's Cannes Gambit: The Man I Love and the Art-House Pivot That Has Hollywood Watching
Long Reads21 May 26
The Poland Surge: What Washington's New Troop Deployment Tells Us About the Future of European Security
Europe21 May 26
Poland's EU Adoption Framework: Szejna's Statement and the Legal Gap Persisting Under Tusk
Culture21 May 26
Pezeshkian's 'illusion' gambit: how Iran weaponises defiance in the age of talks
Europe21 May 26
Petr Pavel's Candid Frame: Europe Needs Ukraine More Than the Other Way Around
Long Reads21 May 26
Pakistan's Quiet Pivot: How Islamabad Became the Backchannel in US-Iran Peace Talks
Asia21 May 26
Pakistan Army Chief's Tehran Visit Cancelled at Short Notice
Long Reads21 May 26
The Oxford Union's Tommy Robinson Fiasco Exposes the Limits of Academic Free Speech
Long Reads21 May 26
OpenAI Claims Proof of an 80-Year Math Problem. This Time, the Mathematicians Are On Board.
Long Reads21 May 26
The Reckoning: OpenAI, Anthropic, and the Great AI Valuation Divergence
Long Reads21 May 26
Oil, Diplomacy, and the Dollar: Inside America's Tightrope Walk on Iran
Sport21 May 26
Ødegaard's Norway Captaincy Tests Whether Club Success Translates at World Cup Level
Long Reads21 May 26
The Silicon Threshold: What Nvidia's $60 Billion Quarter Reveals About the AI Economy
Long Reads21 May 26
Nvidia's $80 Billion Vote of Confidence in the AI Chip Boom
Letters21 May 26
Nvidia's Mysterious Valuation Problem
Opinion21 May 26
Nvidia's $80 Billion Buyback Is Not a Signal of Strength
Science21 May 26
Nigeria's EFCC Reclaims Fugitive Ex-Power Minister in Early Morning Raid
Oceania21 May 26
New Zealand Summons Israeli Ambassador Over Gaza Fleet Activist Deportations
Long Reads21 May 26
Musk's SpaceX IPO Bet: AI Losses, Total Control, and the Largest Listing in History
Sport21 May 26
Mitchell Returns to Madison Square Garden as Knicks Seek 2-0 Series Lead
Long Reads21 May 26
Waiting for the Storm: How the Middle East's Fracture Is Forcing Europe and Asia to Redraw Their Energy Playbooks
Long Reads21 May 26
The Long War Tax: How Middle East Instability Is Forcing a Global Energy Reckoning
Science21 May 26
Meta Settles Social Media Addiction Case With Kentucky School District
Europe21 May 26
Merz floated associate membership for Ukraine. It reveals more about Brussels than Kyiv.
Europe21 May 26
Madrid demands EU sanctions on Ben-Gvir over flotilla footage as Spain hardens its Israel line
Europe21 May 26
Macron Backs Repeal of France's Colonial Slavery Decrees, Draws Line on Reparations
Culture21 May 26
Lupita Nyong'o Responds to Helen of Troy Casting Backlash as Nolan Film Faces Representation Questions
Long Reads21 May 26
The Red Line Lukashenko Drew: Minsk's Military Posturing and the Question of Belarusian Entry Into Ukraine
Culture21 May 26
The Liturgy of Martyrdom: How Iran Weaponises Ashura's Narrative
Long Reads21 May 26
Kyiv's Historical Revisionism: When Ukraine Claims the Rus Legacy
Sport21 May 26
Knicks and Cavaliers Renew Rivalry as Playoff Intensity Meets Betting Market Attention
Science21 May 26
Italy Pushes EU Sanctions Against Israeli Minister Over Flotilla Activist Treatment
Europe21 May 26
Italian journalist describes beatings and humiliation during Israeli boarding of Gaza aid flotilla
MENA21 May 26
Israeli Quadcopter Strike Kills 13-Year-Old in Northern Gaza
Letters21 May 26
Israeli Military Grapples With Manpower Crisis as Hezbollah Escalates Cross-Border Operations
MENA21 May 26
Israeli Forces Launch Fresh Raids on Three Southern Lebanese Towns
Letters21 May 26
Israeli Airstrike Damages Tebnine Government Hospital in Southern Lebanon
Europe21 May 26
Israel Intercepts Gaza Humanitarian Flotilla; US Media Frenzy Over Pro-Israel Advocate Erupts on Fox News
Americas21 May 26
Israel intercepts Gaza-bound flotilla as video of detained activists draws international condemnation
Oceania21 May 26
Israel's Flotilla Detentions Draw Diplomatic Rebuke as Global South Challenges Maritime Blockade Narrative
Long Reads21 May 26
Israel's Aid Convoy Crisis: How One Minister's Video Split the Western Alliance
MENA21 May 26
Israel Accused of Sexual Assault, Beatings Against Captured Flotilla Activists
Tech21 May 26
Iron Dome in the Crosshairs: How Hezbollah's FPV Campaign Is Redrawing the Rules of Air Defence
MENA21 May 26
IRGC Navy Warns US Against Military Action to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads21 May 26
Inside the IRGC: What Tehran's Intelligence Summary Reveals About the US-Iran Standoff
Culture21 May 26
Iran's Health Minister Presents War Damage Evidence to WHO, Calls for Medical Supply Access
Long Reads21 May 26
The Logic of Outrage: How Iran Weaponizes European Diplomatic Friction Over Gaza
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran War's Limited Gains: US Strikes Set Back Defense Industry by Months, Not Years
Letters21 May 26
Iran Issues Transit Permits for 30 Ships as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Escalate
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Toll Proposal Is a结构性 Test of Gulf Geopolitics
MENA21 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Gambit Tests Gulf Diplomacy After Military Setback
Science21 May 26
How Iranian State Channels Are Framing a Posthumous Narrative
Sport21 May 26
Iran's Arian Salimi Claims Gold at Asian Taekwondo Championship
Culture21 May 26
Iran's Rose Water Heritage Gambit: Tehran's Quiet UNESCO Push and the Soft Power Calculus
MENA21 May 26
Iran Rallies Show Regime Cohesion Play — but Questions About Underlying Pressure Linger
Culture21 May 26
Iran's Pezeshkian Rejects Surrender Demands, Makes Case for Regional Dialogue Over Coercion
Culture21 May 26
Eighty Transplants in Forty Days: How Iran's Medical Infrastructure Survived the February Strikes
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran's Nuclear Crossroads: How the Collapse of Diplomacy Revived the Weapons Question
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran's Khamenei Locks Down Near-Weapons-Grade Uranium — And Tightens the Nuclear Negotiating Window
Obituaries21 May 26
Iran's Judiciary Explains Margins of Verdict in Martyr Arman Alivardi Murder Case
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran's Industrial Resilience and the Limits of Western Coercion
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Territorial Claims and the Shadow of a US-Iran Nuclear Deal
Long Reads21 May 26
Iran's Ceasefire Industrial Sprint: Drone Lines Restart, Uranium Stockpile Remains
Culture21 May 26
Iranian State Media Denies Foreign Minister Was Set for New York Trip Amid Nuclear Talks Speculation
Obituaries21 May 26
Intuit Layoffs and Swiss Retirement Reform Expose a Labor Market in Structural Transition
Long Reads21 May 26
Inside Damon: The Women Israel Holds in Administrative Detention
Asia21 May 26
India's Parallel Crises: Violence Against Women and the Muzzling of the Press
Asia21 May 26
India's High Courts Are Rewriting the Rules on Family, Dignity and Criminal Justice
Asia21 May 26
India's European Pivot: From Strategic Margin to Diplomatic Center Stage
Obituaries21 May 26
India Enforcement Directorate Arrests Businessman in Multi-Crore Money Laundering Case Linked to Black Magic Allegations
Culture21 May 26
Ron Howard Brings Avedon Documentary to Cannes: What the Film Gets Right About the Man Who Photographed America
Long Reads21 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Is Not America's to Control
Long Reads21 May 26
Hormuz's New Gatekeepers: Who Actually Controls the World's Most Critical Oil Chokepoint
Long Reads21 May 26
Hormuz Gambit: Iran's Oman Talks and the Battle to Control the World's Most Critical Oil Chokepoint
Long Reads21 May 26
The Hormuz Equation: Oil Markets, American Leverage, and the Standoff That Could Reshape Global Energy
Long Reads21 May 26
The Chokepoint Tax: How Iran Is Monetizing the World's Most Vital Oil Corridor
Science21 May 26
Hezbollah FPV Strikes Expose Iron Dome's Vulnerability to Drone Warfare
Long Reads21 May 26
The Drone That Reached the Commander: Hezbollah's FPV Campaign and the Changing Calculus of the Lebanon Border
Letters21 May 26
Hezbollah Drone Swarm Tests Israeli Defenses Along Lebanon Border
Europe21 May 26
Germany's Investment Vacuum: Foreign Capital Retreats as Europe's Industrial Engine Stalls
The Weekly21 May 26
Gaza health crisis deepens as Israel deports flotilla activists, UNRWA documents 125,000 skin infections
Long Reads21 May 26
Pressure Cooker: How Europe's Economic Contraction Is Rewriting the US-Iran Diplomatic Calculus
Europe21 May 26
European Diplomats Summon Israeli Ambassadors Over Samud Fleet Images
Long Reads21 May 26
The €1.5 Trillion Question: How the Iran War Is Stress-Testing Europe
Africa21 May 26
Eswatini's Sh660m Deal: What the Kingdom Paid Washington to Take Its Citizens
Long Reads21 May 26
Eglin AFB Explosion Tests US Military's High-Explosive Research Apparatus
Africa21 May 26
Ebola Outbreak Crosses 600-Case Threshold as US Fast-Tracks Experimental Treatment to Africa
Europe21 May 26
The Dutch Experiment That Rewrote the Rules on Productivity
Africa21 May 26
Flight Diversion and $26 Million Pledge: How the World is Responding to the DRC's Latest Ebola Outbreak
Obituaries21 May 26
The Death of Caution: South Korea's Institutional Crypto Reckoning
Long Reads21 May 26
The Last Hope: How Cuba's Medical Brigades Became the Island's Most Contested Soft Power
Opinion21 May 26
The Real Crypto Story Isn't HYPE — It's the Privacy and Quantum-Resistant Coins Slipping Past the Headlines
Long Reads21 May 26
Chokepoint Politics: How Iran Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Hormuz
Asia21 May 26
China Lodges Formal Protest as US-Taiwan Diplomatic Contact Rattles Beijing
Long Reads21 May 26
When Steel Meets Sky: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Fragile Arithmetic of American Infrastructure
Culture21 May 26
Cannes Jury Leaves Its Mark: Hollywood, Politics, and the Palme d'Or Race
Americas21 May 26
Canada and Finland Summon Israeli Envoys Over Samud Fleet Activist Arrests
Asia21 May 26
Calcutta High Court Orders CBI SIT Probe Into RG Kar Rape-Murder Timeline as India Accelerates Railway Safety Overhaul
Americas21 May 26
Bolivia's Political Earthquake and Brazil's Coffee Boom: Divergent Trajectories in South America
Long Reads21 May 26
Blockchain.com Takes the Long Road to Wall Street
Markets21 May 26
Bitcoin markets weigh Iran nuclear talks against weakening ETF demand
Culture21 May 26
Jeff Bezos, the Melania Film, and the Tech Billionaire's AI Alibi
Asia21 May 26
Berlin's Spy Headache: Germany Arrests Suspected Chinese Agents as Trade Ties Remain Untouchable
Long Reads21 May 26
Ben-Gvir's Detention Video Amplifies Turkey-Gaza Humanitarian Fault Line
Asia21 May 26
Belarus Nuclear Drills Signal Deeper Russian Integration, Lukashenko Says
Long Reads21 May 26
The Belarus Factor: Inside Kyiv's Calculus on the Northern Flank
Culture21 May 26
The Battle for the Front Row: Inside the Rough Road to Cannes as a Freelance Photographer
Obituaries21 May 26
Barney Frank's Contested Legacy: The Congressman Who Refereed Wall Street
Long Reads21 May 26
The Automated Barista, the Traffic Officer, and the Scalpel: Technology, Autonomy, and the Boundaries of State Control…
Oceania21 May 26
Australia Summons Israeli Ambassador Over Gaza Flotilla Interception
Oceania21 May 26
Australia's Ionic Rare Earths Partners With US-Based Nth Cycle to Diversify Supply Chains
Science21 May 26
Australia Condemns Ben Gvir Over Photos with Detained Gaza Aid Activists
Oceania21 May 26
Australia's Arafura Rare Earth Project Breaks Ground as West Seeks Supply Chain Foothold
Arts21 May 26
Artist JR's Pont Neuf Transformation Turns Paris's Oldest Bridge Into a Rocky Cavern
Long Reads21 May 26
The Art of the Convenient Crisis: How Trump's Iran Gambit Redefines Diplomatic Theatre
MENA21 May 26
Arab Normalization Under Strain: Political Pressure vs Commercial Reality in Gulf-Israeli Relations
Culture21 May 26
Andy Garcia's Diamond Arrives at Cannes, Two Decades in the Making
Opinion21 May 26
The AI Maturation Threshold Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Long Reads21 May 26
AI First: Inside the Trump Administration's Bet on Technology as the New American Empire
Africa21 May 26
Africa CDC Rebukes US Ebola Travel Ban as Structural Injustice in Global Health Laid Bare
MENA21 May 26
Activists Released by Israeli Forces Arrive in Istanbul as Ankara Reasserts Gaza Aid Stance
MENA21 May 26
42 Aircraft, $29 Billion: What the Congress Report Reveals About US Military Costs in Iran
Long Reads21 May 26
The $149 Billion Tariff Reckoning and the AI Executive Order That Wasn't
Letters21 May 26
Union Anger and Economic Contraction Test Starmer's Mandate
Letters21 May 26
SpaceX Goes Public as the Fed Moves to Crack Open Its Payments System — Two Pivots, One Week
Markets21 May 26
xAI's Gas Gamble: $2.8B Turbine Deal Follows Generator Lawsuit as Anthropic Compute Pact Surfaces
Culture21 May 26
The Wild Robot and the Quiet Revolution in Meaningful Family Cinema
Science21 May 26
Washington's Quantum Bet: Equity Stakes, National Security, and the Race for Computational Supremacy
Letters21 May 26
US Charges Raul Castro With Conspiracy to Kill Americans — Legal Move or Political Signal?
Asia21 May 26
Trump's Taiwan Call and the 1% That Tells the Real Story
Investigations21 May 26
Trump's Taiwan Call Gambit: What We Know About the $14 Billion Arms Question
Culture21 May 26
Trump's Federal Arch Approval Is Done. Whether It Should Have Been Is Another Question.
Sport21 May 26
Three Officers, Ten Thousand Fans: The Skeleton Crew policing England's World Cup Party
Americas21 May 26
Supreme Court Backs Cuba Property Claims Against Cruise Lines — Reshaping Legal and Diplomatic Landscape
Sport21 May 26
Spurs-Thunder Series Turns Into a Two-Man Race in the Making
Americas21 May 26
Pentagon Crafts Cuba Options as Trump's Poll Numbers Slide on Inflation
Culture21 May 26
The Natural History Museum Bets on Monsters
Long Reads21 May 26
The Lai Signal: Taipei, Beijing, and the Fragile Geometry of a Trump-Xi Phone Call
Opinion21 May 26
Japan's Quiet Rearmament Is More Than a Military Affair
Culture21 May 26
IEA Director Warns Oil Markets Are Entering a Danger Zone as Inventories Fall and Summer Demand Rises
Culture21 May 26
Mumbai Museum Turns Family Albums Into Public History in Pathare Prabhu Exhibition
Long Reads21 May 26
The Chip Wars Come to the Silk Road: Nvidia, Export Controls, and the Fracturing of Global AI Infrastructure
Long Reads21 May 26
The Castro Indictment and the Long Shadow of US-Cuba Legal Warfare
Sport21 May 26
Caruso Makes NBA Finals History as Thunder Even Series
Business21 May 26
Bitcoin's Narrative Problem Runs Deeper Than the Price Chart
Americas21 May 26
Aerial Imagery Emerges From Al Fujairah as UAE Gulf Coast Holds Strategic Weight
The Weekly21 May 26
Tehran Muscat Toll Proposal Reshapes Gulf Transit Politics
MENA21 May 26
Saudi Arabia Tightens the Belt as Iran Conflict Drains State Coffers
Asia21 May 26
Japan's Shelter Gap: A Missile Defence Dilemma the Budget Won't Solve
Long Reads21 May 26
The Chip Chasm: Nvidia's Record Quarter and the Fracture Line Running Through Global AI Infrastructure
Economy21 May 26
Bloomberg Warns Strait of Hormuz Closure Could Trigger 2008-Style Recession
Sport21 May 26
England's World Cup squad dilemmas: what Tuchel must decide on Friday
Obituaries21 May 26
The Conscience of the Right
Obituaries21 May 26
Senate Recess Exposes Republican Fault Lines on Immigration Funding
Obituaries21 May 26
Park Sang-hoon Led South Korea's Fastest-Growing Deathcare Company Before Crypto Gambit Ended His Legacy
Long Reads21 May 26
The Meme Stock Evolution: How Retail Networks Rewired Options Markets
Sport21 May 26
Knicks Complete Record 22-Point Comeback to Steal Game 1
Culture21 May 26
Iran Pledges National Priority Restoration of 149 War-Damaged Heritage Sites
Long Reads21 May 26
The Repeating Crisis: Ebola Returns to Congo as International Response Struggles to Keep Pace
Geopolitics21 May 26
The Ceremony Survived: What Beijing's Quiet Rebuff Tells Us About Sino-Russian Relations
Oceania21 May 26
Australia's Gold Crown: The Miners Shaping Global Treasure Flows
Sport21 May 26
Aaron Rodgers Confirms 2026 Will Be Final Season, Closing a 22-Year NFL Career
Tech21 May 26
Ukraine Expands Drone Campaign Against Russian-Held Crimea
Opinion21 May 26
Trump's AI Security Turn Reveals a Coalition Under Stress
Obituaries21 May 26
The endurance of 'Homeland or Death': Cuba's revolutionary defense doctrine at a crossroads
Sport21 May 26
The Enhanced Games Have Arrived. Nobody Agrees on What That Means.
Culture21 May 26
102-Year-Old Veteran Takes the National Memorial Day Concert Stage as Voice for the Fallen
Europe21 May 26
UK's Gulf Pivot: Trade Deal Signals London's Bid to Reclaim Middle East Footing
Opinion21 May 26
Trump Chose the Fed Over His Son's Wedding. That Tells Us Everything About the New Monetary Order.
Long Reads21 May 26
The Squeeze: How Energy Prices Are Reshaping American Consumer Behaviour and What It Means for the Geopolitical Order
Tech21 May 26
SpaceX IPO Filing Puts 18,712 Bitcoin on Public Markets as Nvidia's AI Surge Reshapes Crypto Mining
Long Reads21 May 26
Ebola Returns to Conflict Zones — And the Global South Organises Its Own Response
Long Reads21 May 26
Cuba at the Crossroads: Regime Pressure, Sino-Caribbean Diplomacy, and the Question of Succession
Americas21 May 26
Charges Against Raul Castro and a Carrier Group in the Caribbean Signal a New US-Cuba Confrontation
Oceania21 May 26
One Nation's National Expansion Collapses as Internal Documents Reveal Forced Dissolution of New Branches
Long Reads21 May 26
The Missile Gap: How the US Emptyed Its Arsenals Defending Israel — And What Remains
Geopolitics21 May 26
Two-Time NASCAR Champion Kyle Busch Dies at 41
Climate21 May 26
Trump Administration Signals Reversal on Food-Sector Refrigerant Rules, Declares New Cuba Posture
Long Reads21 May 26
Trump Revives Poland Troop Deployments, Warns Europe on Defense Spending
Tech21 May 26
Trump Delays AI Security Review Order, Citing Competitiveness Fears
Long Reads21 May 26
Trump's Cuba Gambit: Regime Change Talk Meets Military Planning
Tech21 May 26
Trump's Cuba Rhetoric Meets AI Executive Order Pause: Two Flashpoints, One Administration
Tech21 May 26
Trump Set to Sign AI Oversight Order Requiring Pre-Release Model Disclosure
Sport21 May 26