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Long Reads07 May 26
The Caress and the Carrier: How Trump’s Iran framing collides with military reality
Culture07 May 26
Tennessee's Newest Congressional Map Targets the State's Most Diverse District
The Weekly07 May 26
Tehran's Hormuz Gambit: Iran Demands U.S. Naval Withdrawal Before Any Diplomatic Opening
Culture07 May 26
Syria Returns to Venice: Ministry Inaugurates Palmyra Tower Cemetery at Biennale
MENA07 May 26
Switzerland Offers to Host Direct Iran-US Talks as Both Sides Signal Diplomatic Opening
Long Reads07 May 26
The Night the Strait of Hormuz Caught Fire
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait That Runs the World: UAE Oil, AIS Spoofing, and the Limits of Hormuz Containment
Opinion07 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Just Became a Battlefield
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Gambit: How Iran Outmaneuvered Project Freedom
Culture07 May 26
Spotify's AI Audio Bet: Platform as Digital Voicebox
Long Reads07 May 26
Madrid's Defiant Gesture: Spain Awards Sanctioned UN Official as Washington Tests the Limits of Diplomatic Pressure
Americas07 May 26
Spain Wants EU Shield for ICC as US Sanctions Bite
Tech07 May 26
SpaceX's Terafab Gambit: A $55 Billion Bet on Domestic Semiconductor Sovereignty
Long Reads07 May 26
Six Explosions in 40 Seconds: What We Know About the Southern Iran Incident
Letters07 May 26
Six Explosions Near Qeshm: What We Know and Don't Know About the Incidents Off Iran's Southern Coast
Long Reads07 May 26
The Language of Annexation: How Israel's Settler Movement Is Reshaping the Post-War Vocabulary
Asia07 May 26
Seoul and Tokyo's Upgraded 2+2: An Alliance Architecture Quietly Taking Shape
Asia07 May 26
Seoul Defiant: South Korea Rejects Trump's 'Go It Alone' Framing as Market Milestone Shifts the Balance
Americas07 May 26
Seoul's Crypto Tax Calculus: Stability Before Speculation as Korea Claims Seventh Spot
Letters07 May 26
Saudi Base Suspension Exposes Limits of US Hormuz Strategy
Energy07 May 26
Saudi Arabia's Military Block Puts Trump's Strait of Hormuz Gambit in Reverse
Long Reads07 May 26
How Saudi Arabia Blocked Trump's Strait of Hormuz Gambit
Tech07 May 26
The Satellite Boom Has a Dirty Secret — And It's Not Just Space Junk
Culture07 May 26
Sakana AI's Small-Model Gambit: Can a 7B Parameter System Really Tame GPT-5 and Claude?
Long Reads07 May 26
Ryan Cohen's eBay Joke Lands Like a Bullseye — and Raises the Question Nobody Wants to Answer
Asia07 May 26
Russia's Victory Day Parade Underscores Narrowing Diplomatic Circle
Long Reads07 May 26
The Silence That Never Came: Russia's May 9 Offensive and the Collapse of Kyiv's Ceasefire Gambit
Long Reads07 May 26
Russia Rejects Ukraine Ceasefire With Kindergarten Strike, Zelensky Vows Response
Long Reads07 May 26
Russia and China Veto UN Resolution on Strait of Hormuz — What the Block Tells Us About Multilateral Governance
Europe07 May 26
Rubio's Vatican Gambit: Mending Fences After Trump Rattles the Holy See
Europe07 May 26
Rubio's Rome Mission: Meeting the Pope Days After Trump's Public Spat With Meloni
Long Reads07 May 26
The Secretary of State, the Pope, and the Architecture of a Fragile Peace
Opinion07 May 26
The Real Crash Isn't Bitcoin — It's the Myth of On-Chain Transparency
Long Reads07 May 26
The Quiet Revolution: How Wall Street Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bitcoin
MENA07 May 26
Explosions Reported Near Iran's Qeshm Island as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Escalate
Africa07 May 26
Qatar's Mediation Architecture Faces Stress Test as Regional Diplomatic Channels Realign
Intelligence07 May 26
Iranian Parliament Speaker Decries Axios Reporting as White House Fiction Operation
Asia07 May 26
Pyongyang Stakes Its Claim: Nuclear Posture Locked In as First Russia-North Korea Road Bridge Nears Completion
Culture07 May 26
Private Collections and the Museum: A New Era of American Art Partnerships
Asia07 May 26
The Tariff Agreement Puzzle: Why Polymarket Traders Doubt a US-China Deal Before Summer
Arts07 May 26
The Memory Wars Return: Poland, Ukraine, and the Politics of WWII Exhibition
Obituaries07 May 26
Poland Tightens Military Mobilization Rules as Attrition Concerns Mount
Americas07 May 26
Poland's Mobilization Framework: Who Gets Called, and What It Signals About Europe's Defence Reckoning
Asia07 May 26
Philippines GDP Slows to 2.8% as Iran War Hits Asian Economies Differently
Europe07 May 26
Overnight Strikes and Currency Pressures: What the Night of May 7 Tells Us About the Ukraine Conflict in 2026
Sport07 May 26
OKC Thunder Eye 2-0 Series Lead as LeBron James Plays 300th Playoff Game
Long Reads07 May 26
Oil, Optics, and the $10 Gap: How a Single Price Figure Became a Battleground in Middle East Coverage
Americas07 May 26
North Korea Constitutionally Severs Reunification Pillar as South Korea Marks Market Milestone
Culture07 May 26
Nobel Laureate's Letter to Jerusalem Festival Revives Cultural Boycott Debate
Asia07 May 26
The Nikkei Rallies While Bitcoin Retreats: Markets Price In an Iran Ceasefire
Sport07 May 26
NFL Sets Eyes on Two Dates for 2026 Schedule Release
Long Reads07 May 26
Musk's Tax Confession and the Quiet Consolidation of xAI Into SpaceX
Opinion07 May 26
The Musk–OpenAI Trial Is a Master Class in How Not to Govern Transformative Technology
Long Reads07 May 26
The Musk–Altman War Reaches a Courtroom: What Shivon Zilis Knows
Long Reads07 May 26
Airstrike on Iran's Minab Naval Facility Deepens Regional Tensions as Proxy Networks Realign
Science07 May 26
John Mearsheimer says Iran has won its confrontation with the United States
Opinion07 May 26
The Market Hit a High. The Rest of America Didn't.
Investigations07 May 26
Malaysia's Real-Time Payments Bet Puts AI Security at the Center of the Board
Long Reads07 May 26
Lula's White House Gambit: How Brazil Won a Tariff Truce and What It Tells Us About the New Diplomatic Order
Long Reads07 May 26
Lula at the White House: What the Brazil Visit Reveals About the Fraying of an Old Alliance
Americas07 May 26
Lula Pushes Back on Trump Iran Claims as Oil Prices Bite American Consumers
Sport07 May 26
Knicks Lead Eastern Semis 2-0 as Spurs Level Western Series in NBA Playoffs
Sport07 May 26
The Ball Retrieval That Broke the Internet: How One NBA All-Star Moment Went Viral
Obituaries07 May 26
Jiiva Bids Farewell to Father RB Choudary, Vijay Among Mourners at Tamil Cinema Fixture's Funeral
Obituaries07 May 26
The Enduring Mystery of Jeffrey Epstein's Death — and the Note That May Never Close It
Long Reads07 May 26
Japan's Quiet Pivot: Energy Crisis, Iran War, and the Architecture of a New Security Posture
Long Reads07 May 26
Israel's War Economy and the Price of Global Isolation
The Weekly07 May 26
Israeli Strikes Target Gaza Security Infrastructure as Ceasefire Talks Stutter
Tech07 May 26
Israeli Military Missed the FPV Warning: How Drone Threats Were Visible Before the Lebanon Border Erupted
MENA07 May 26
Israeli Forces Intensify Strikes Across Southern Lebanon as Border Tensions Escalate
MENA07 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Four Southern Lebanese Towns as Border Tensions Escalate
MENA07 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Near Nabatieh Hospital Draw Hezbollah Drone Response as Cross-Border Violence Escalates
The Weekly07 May 26
Israeli Airstrike on Beirut Breaks Ceasefire as IDF Claims Elimination of Hezbollah Commander
MENA07 May 26
Israel Strikes Beirut for First Time Since Ceasefire, Killing Hezbollah Commander
Long Reads07 May 26
The Censorship Paradox: How Israel's Information Lockdown Is Backfiring in the Iran-Hezbollah Conflict
Business07 May 26
Iran Fires Missiles at US Warship in Strait of Hormuz, State Media Reports
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Underground Lifeline: How Tehran Defies the World's Most Ambitious Maritime Siege
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Claims Anti-Ship Strike on US Destroyers in Strait of Hormuz — What We Know
Energy07 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Toll Authority Meets French Naval Build-Up in High-Stakes Chess Match
Energy07 May 26
Iran signals Strait of Hormuz sovereignty claims as regional tensions escalate
Long Reads07 May 26
The 90-Day Reckoning: How Iran's Port Blockade Is Reshaping Gulf Politics
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Persian Gulf Flashpoint: What the Bandar Abbas Explosions Signal About Escalation Risk
MENA07 May 26
Iran Fires Missiles at US Warship in Strait of Hormuz After Tanker Seizure Attempt
MENA07 May 26
Iran's New Hormuz Rules Turn Critical Waterway Into Negotiation Arena
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Sovereignty Claims, American Pushback, and the Chokepoint That Can't Be Closed
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: A New Authority, Old Tensions, and the Price of Passage
MENA07 May 26
Iran Formalizes Strait of Hormuz Toll Ambitions with New Navigation Authority
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Fires on U.S. Warships in the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Fires Missiles at US Naval Vessels in Strait of Hormuz: The Escalation No One Planned
Asia07 May 26
Iran Denies Role in Strait of Hormuz Incident Involving South Korean Vessel
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Denies Role in Strait of Hormuz Explosion as Regional Tensions Resurface
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Denies Gulf Strike on South Korean Ship — A Dispute That Tells a Larger Story
Energy07 May 26
Iran Calls US Hormuz Reopening Proposal 'Unrealistic' as CIA Warns of Prolonged Blockade Resilience
Science07 May 26
Iranian Court Indicts Blogger Over 26 Billion Toman Patient Fraud
Long Reads07 May 26
Iran Alleges US Strike on Tanker Near Hormuz, Escalating Ceasefire Tensions
Culture07 May 26
Inside Al-Shifa: Gaza's Main Hospital Faces Systemic Collapse Under Siege Conditions
Culture07 May 26
The Infidelity Exception: What America's Moral Line Reveals About Its Anxieties
Asia07 May 26
India and Vietnam Elevate Ties to Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
Asia07 May 26
India Supreme Court Taps Ex-CJI Chandrachud to Mediate High-Profile Estate Dispute
Science07 May 26
IDF Strikes Hezbollah Weapons Infrastructure in Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Tensions Escalate
Tech07 May 26
IDF Soldier Wounded as Hezbollah Reports 17 Operations Against Israeli Positions in Southern Lebanon
Science07 May 26
How Wars Are Counted: The Asymmetry at the Heart of the Israel–Hezbollah Conflict's Information Battlefield
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Confrontation: What We Know About the May 7 US-Iran Naval Exchange
Long Reads07 May 26
The Hormuz Flashpoint: US Warships Pass Through Under Fire as Gulf Allies Revoke Overflight Rights
Long Reads07 May 26
Escalation at the Strait: How a Tanker Interdiction Became a Missile Exchange
Long Reads07 May 26
The Hormuz Asymmetry: Why US Military Supremacy Doesn't Guarantee Strategic Control
Americas07 May 26
Honda's $15 Billion Canadian EV Plant Pause Exposes the Limits of Industrial Ambition Without Policy Coherence
Long Reads07 May 26
Hezbollah's 17-Operation Surge Tests Fragile Lebanon Ceasefire as IDF Casualties Mount
MENA07 May 26
Hezbollah Claims 16 Cross-Border Strikes as Hamas Official Declares Gaza Resistance Unbroken
Energy07 May 26
Gulf States Revoke US Base Access as Strait of Hormuz Tensions Escalate
Culture07 May 26
Gulf States Are Asking Whether America Still Shows Up
Long Reads07 May 26
The Strait at the Centre: How the Gulf Rebalanced the Map on US Military Access
Long Reads07 May 26
Gulf Exchange of Fire: What We Know About the Iran–US Strikes
Long Reads07 May 26
Gulf Cooperation and Hormuz Denial: Inside the Contradictory Signals from Washington
Europe07 May 26
Google's Reddit Pivot: Platform Diplomacy, AI Credibility, and the Brussels Factor
Tech07 May 26
Google's Forum Gamble: When AI Search Starts Quoting Reddit
Letters07 May 26
Global Debt Hits $353 Trillion Record as Musk Moves to Absorb xAI Into SpaceX
MENA07 May 26
Gazans Race to Save Rare Books as Israeli Airstrikes Continue
Defense07 May 26
Gaza Strikes Kill Son of Hamas Leader as Ceasefire Talks Remain Deadlocked
Tech07 May 26
GameStop CEO's Viral eBay Stunt Exposes the Thin Line Between Brand Play and Platform Rules
Americas07 May 26
France Challenges Washington's Cuba Sanctions Regime — With One Vote
Africa07 May 26
France's €4.6 Billion Bet on African Reset — What Paris Stands to Gain
The Weekly07 May 26
The Fracturing Consensus: How Two Flashpoints Reveal Washington's Receding Leverage
Long Reads07 May 26
Follow the Trade: The DOJ Probe, Iran War Announcements, and the Geometry of a Ceasefire
Culture07 May 26
Florentina Holzinger Rings the Bell for Climate at the Austrian Pavilion
Culture07 May 26
Five Dead After Fire Engulfs Packed Mexican Fairground Concert Venue
Long Reads07 May 26
Firefight in the Strait: What We Know About the Iran-US Naval Clash Reports
Long Reads07 May 26
Explosions Rock Western Tehran as Regional Tensions Escalate Between Iran and UAE
Long Reads07 May 26
Explosions Rock Southern Iran and Tehran as Regional Tensions Escalate
Long Reads07 May 26
Explosions Rock Iran's Southern Ports: What We Know and What Remains Unclear
Long Reads07 May 26
Explosions at Qeshm: What We Know About the Strike on Iran's Strait of Hormuz Port
Long Reads07 May 26
Explosions Reported at Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas as Iranian State Media Describes Exchange With Enemy Forces
Europe07 May 26
EU Refuses Russian Call to Withdraw Kyiv Diplomats as Moscow Escalates Warnings
Long Reads07 May 26
The Note That Wouldn't Stay Buried: What Jeffrey Epstein's Released Document Tells Us About America's Enduring Obsession
Long Reads07 May 26
The Epstein Note Is Public. Now What?
Culture07 May 26
Epstein Files Exhibition Opens in Tribeca as Survivors Denounce 'Accountability Theater'
Science07 May 26
Eight Israeli Military Vehicles Enter Syrian Territory Near Daraa, Monitor Reports
Europe07 May 26
Dutch Health Authorities Monitor Flight Attendant After Hantavirus Contact in Johannesburg
Long Reads07 May 26
The $2.6 Billion Question: DOJ Opens Inquiry Into Oil Trades Ahead of Trump Iran Announcements
Letters07 May 26
DOJ Opens Insider-Trading Inquiry Into $2.6 Billion in Pre-Attack Iran Oil Trades
Long Reads07 May 26
The Diamond Princess Trap: How a Ship Became the World's Petri Dish
Long Reads07 May 26
The Deep Freeze: How China's Economic Reckoning Is Reshaping the Brussels-Beijing Relationship
Economy07 May 26
Cuba's Nickel and the Art of Pressure: How a Mining Operation Became Leverage in US-China Talks
Long Reads07 May 26
The Crystal Football and the Cross: Vatican Diplomacy, Middle East Talks, and the Quiet Remaking of European Security
Letters07 May 26
Crypto Platforms Consolidate as Coinbase Moves Into Metals and Musk Folds AI Into SpaceX
Obituaries07 May 26
Court Release of Jeffrey Epstein Suicide Note Reopens Questions on Infamous Case
Long Reads07 May 26
The Counterterrorism Strategy That Burned the Bridge to Europe
Asia07 May 26
China's Gulf Gambit: Emirati Banking Expansion Meets UK Espionage Convictions
Long Reads07 May 26
China Purges Its Defense Establishment: What the Death Sentences of Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe Reveal
Long Reads07 May 26
China's Economic Crossroads: From Property Slump to Middle East Leverage
Asia07 May 26
China's Corporate Earnings Slump Enters a Third Year as Property Crisis Reshapes the Investment Case
Americas07 May 26
China's $6.1 Billion Brazil Bet Signals a Quiet Rearrangement of Latin America's Investment Landscape
Obituaries07 May 26
Chandranath Rath's Death Puts Bengal's Political Violence Problem Back in Focus
Long Reads07 May 26
Ceasefire on the Line: Northern Israel's Fractured Pause
Americas07 May 26
BTS, Soft Power, and the Limits of Mexican Sovereignty Signaling
Culture07 May 26
Brox's 60,000-Person Synthetic Cohort and the Quiet Revolution in Market Research
Long Reads07 May 26
Inside Britain's Biggest Chinese Spy Case: How Dual Nationals Became a National Security Flashpoint
Americas07 May 26
Brazil Reclaims Top Spot for Chinese Investment in 2025 — and What Washington Can Do About It
Sport07 May 26
The Bonus War: How DraftKings and BetMGM Are Fighting for Your Bet This Week
Asia07 May 26
BJP Leader's Close Aide Shot Dead in West Bengal Days After Party's Electoral Victory
Culture07 May 26
The Biennale's Uncomfortable Mirror
Culture07 May 26
Justin Bieber's Polymarket Bet: What 38% Odds Actually Tell Us About Music's Streaming Wars
Long Reads07 May 26
Berlin Sounds the Alarm: Europe Faces a Historic Rupture With Washington
Asia07 May 26
Beijing Tells Tel Aviv: Hands Off Taiwan
Long Reads07 May 26
Beijing's Counterplay: How China Is Rewriting the Rules of Tech Competition While Washington Waits
Long Reads07 May 26
Baghdad's Balancing Act: US Sanctions on Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister and the Fraying Edge of Iran Oil Sanctions…
Oceania07 May 26
Three Australian Women Detained Upon Return from Syria on ISIS-Related Charges
Oceania07 May 26
Australian Woman Charged With Joining Islamic State After Sydney Airport Arrest
Oceania07 May 26
Australia Repatriates IS-Linked Families from Syria as Legal Reckoning Looms
Oceania07 May 26
Australia Brings Home IS-Linked Families: Security Calculus or Legal Obligation?
Long Reads07 May 26
Asian Firms Hedge Their Bets on US Investment as 2025 Tariff Shock Lingers
Science07 May 26
The Architecture of Managed Conflict: How Surveillance and Narrative Theater Sustain Modern Wars
Long Reads07 May 26
The Architecture of Displacement: Israel's Evacuation Warnings and the Fracturing Order of Southern Lebanon
Long Reads07 May 26
Anthropic's SpaceX Compute Deal Rewrites the Rules of the AI Infrastructure Race
Markets07 May 26
SpaceX's Colossus Cluster Becomes AI Infrastructure's New Center of Gravity
Long Reads07 May 26
Another Explosion in Southern Iran: What the Pattern of Reported Incidents Tells Us
Long Reads07 May 26
The Anatomy of a Coercive Ceasefire: What Russia's Victory Day Truce Reveals
Letters07 May 26
An American-Iranian Grieves in Minab as Tehran Weighs a US Proposal to End the Conflict
Long Reads07 May 26
American Bitcoin, the Trump Brand, and the Cost of Crypto Loyalty in the MAGA Era
Tech07 May 26
American Bitcoin Swings to Loss as Cost-Cut Mining Pivot Gains Momentum
MENA07 May 26
Al-Hiya's Fourth Son Martyred as Hamas Leader Calls for International Ceasefire Pressure
Asia07 May 26
AI Threatens the Indian Middle Class Built by Software Exporters
Science07 May 26
AI Chatbots Are Sharing Your Conversations With Advertisers — Even When You Opt Out
Africa07 May 26
African Governments Issue Travel Warnings as Xenophobic Violence Resurfaces in South Africa
Culture07 May 26
How Actor Vijay Built a Political Machine That Bollywood's Stars Could Never Replicate
Science07 May 26
Abu Dhabi's Legal Gambit: How the UAE Is Building a Reparations Case Against Iran
Sport07 May 26
Aaron Rodgers Finds His Landing Spot: Steelers Weekend Visit Looks Like the End of a Long Goodbye
Oceania07 May 26
Wave Clouds Roll Across Brazilian Coast in Rare Meteorological Display
Letters07 May 26
Trump Claims Three US Destroyers Transited Strait of Hormuz Under Fire
Long Reads07 May 26
Trump's One-Week Ultimatum Meets Iranian Defiance
Long Reads07 May 26
The Deal That May or May Not Be: Trump, Iran, and the Diplomacy of Ambiguity
Long Reads07 May 26
Scott Bessent's Tokyo Mission: What the Yen's Slide Tells Us About Dollar Anxiety
Tech07 May 26
Saudi Arabia's Airspace Lockdown Forced Trump's Hand on Project Freedom
Culture07 May 26
The Neo-Aryan Revival Online: How Extremist Ideology Finds New Footing on Encrypted Platforms
Africa07 May 26
Hantavirus Detected in Johannesburg Traveller After Cruise Outbreak Spreads to Multiple Continents
Letters07 May 26
The CIA's Iran Assessment and the Domestic Political Calculus Pulling at America's Hardline Stance
Sport07 May 26
LeBron's 300th Playoff Game Meets Oklahoma City's Finest Hour
Culture07 May 26
The Whiplash Generation: How America Learned to Quit One Vice and Embrace Another
Arts07 May 26
Turkey's Yildirimhan ICBM Unveiling Signals Strategic Ambition Beyond NATO's Shadow
Europe07 May 26