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Europe07 May 26
Potato Futures and the Quiet Financialisation of Everything
Opinion07 May 26
The Logistics Layer: Why DoorDash's Surge and Corning's Pivot Reveal the Same Infrastructure Bet
Arts07 May 26
Sotheby's Geneva Blue Diamond Signals Shifting Appetite for Colored Stones
Africa07 May 26
Tshisekedi Opens Door to DRC Third Term, Citing Eastern Conflict
Opinion07 May 26
Surveillance as Safety: The Governance Gap the Tech Bulls Would Rather You Miss
Sport07 May 26
How Platform-Native Coverage Is Reshaping the NBA Playoffs Experience
The Weekly07 May 26
Microsoft's AI Ambition Collides With Its Clean Energy Vow
Letters07 May 26
The Contradiction Buried in Bitcoin's Liquidation Flush
Culture07 May 26
Oxford's Ultimate Picture Palace Fights for Survival as College Cuts Lease
Sport07 May 26
Mason Edwards and the Architecture of a First-Round Upset
Opinion07 May 26
GameStop's CEO Is Selling Socks on eBay. That's the Whole Story
Opinion07 May 26
The Substrate Trap: AI Infrastructure and the Old Game in a New Wrapper
Culture07 May 26
Bayonetta Creator Hideki Kamiya Responds to LGBTQ Icon Claims on X
Culture06 May 26
Court Unseals Jeffrey Epstein Suicide Note After Years of Secrecy
Long Reads06 May 26
Intel's Fifteen Percent: Inside the Chipmaker's Gambit for an AI Comeback
Science06 May 26
Australia's $10 Billion Fuel Security Gambit as Hormuz Chokepoint Tightens
Opinion06 May 26
The Deadline That Points to Beijing
Obituaries06 May 26
The Choreography of Hostility: Anti-Zionist Protests, Synagogue Proximity, and the Boundaries of Political Expression
Tech06 May 26
Zelensky Accuses Russia of Breaching Hours-Old Ceasefire as Violations Top 1,800
Long Reads06 May 26
The Nuclear Corridor: How the US-Iran Deal Became the Defining Diplomatic Gamble of 2026
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump, Tehran, and Beijing: Reading the Diplomatic Tea Leaves in Four Polymarket Bets
Long Reads06 May 26
The Volatility Premium: How Trump's Policy Reversals Became the New Normal in Global Markets
MENA06 May 26
Trump Pauses Project Freedom as Hormuz Talks Hang on Tehran's Terms
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Nuclear Deal That Never Was
Culture06 May 26
How Trump's Hormuz Gamble Collapsed With the 'Azadi Project'
The Weekly06 May 26
The Checkmark and the Claim: Iran, X, and the Verification Paradox
Obituaries06 May 26
Russian-Administered Regions Formalise Surrender Protocols as Ukraine Rejects Surrender Rhetoric
Letters06 May 26
Prediction Markets Are Now Reading Geopolitics — and the Odds Are Stacked on Beijing
Letters06 May 26
Netanyahu Seeks US Assurances as Trump Signals Conditional Progress on Iran Nuclear Deal
Science06 May 26
Kramatorsk Airstrike Footage Released as Ukraine Detains Officer Over $1,500 Bribe
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Calculated Response: How Tehran Weaponizes Negotiation as Policy Under the Trump Ultimatum
Asia06 May 26
Iran's Araghchi lands in Beijing as China signals expanded peacemaking ambitions in the Middle East
Asia06 May 26
Iran's Araghchi lands in Beijing as ceasefire diplomacy pivots east
Long Reads06 May 26
Hungary Returns Seized Ukrainian Bank Funds in Diplomatic Reversal
Europe06 May 26
Germany Requests Israeli Jet Fuel as US-Iran Conflict Disrupts European Energy Supply
Europe06 May 26
France and Iran Talk: Macron Announces Presidential Call as Nuclear Talks Test European Leverage
Long Reads06 May 26
The Exposed Wire: How FPV Drones Rewrote the Rules of the Ukraine Battlefield
Asia06 May 26
China Rebuffs Taiwan President in Cross-Strait Escalation Warning
Arts06 May 26
British Museum's 'Palestine' Erasure Sparks Diplomatic Protest
Asia06 May 26
Beijing Backs Tehran as Middle East Talks Fracture Along Familiar Lines
Long Reads06 May 26
Beijing's Quiet bet: What Araghchi's Visit to China Tells Us About the Remaking of Middle East Diplomacy
Sport06 May 26
Quail Hollow's Final Test: What the Truist Championship Reveals About the PGA Championship Landscape
Culture06 May 26
Yemeni Cartoonist Draws Gulf Complicity Into Focus as Regional Fault Lines Deepen
The Weekly06 May 26
Zelensky Draws Line Under Victory Day Talks as Ukraine Prepares Mirror Response
Tech06 May 26
XAI and Anthropic's Compute Pact Exposes the Infrastructure Truth at the Heart of the AI Race
Culture06 May 26
When the Border Closed: COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Kenyan Professionals Who Couldn't Come Home
Long Reads06 May 26
The Architect's Blueprint: How Washington Is Redrawing Libya's Political Map Around Two Families
Letters06 May 26
Wall Street Goes Long on Crypto: Morgan Stanley's Fee Play and What It Means for the Market
Geopolitics06 May 26
Trump's chosen successor: Vivek Ramaswamy wins Ohio Republican gubernatorial primary
Geopolitics06 May 26
Vivek Ramaswamy Secures Ohio GOP Governor Nomination, Setting Up High-Stakes Contest Against Amy Acton
Culture06 May 26
The Biennale Is Not a Tribunal: Venice's Culture War Over Preventive Exclusion
Americas06 May 26
Venezuela's ICJ Gambit: Sovereignty Claim or Delay Tactic?
Long Reads06 May 26
The JDAM-ER Sale and the $374 Million Question Washington's Pricing Puzzle for Ukraine
Long Reads06 May 26
Inside the US-Iran Nuclear Overture and Israel's Calculated Response
Science06 May 26
US and Iran Reportedly Near Agreement on Memorandum of Understanding Amid Vienna Talks
Europe06 May 26
US Clears $374 Million GPS-Guided Bomb Sale to Kyiv as European Commentary Turns Sharper
Long Reads06 May 26
Uranium and Assumptions: What Washington's Iran Deal Talk Reveals About Its Strategic Calculus
Long Reads06 May 26
Why Ukraine's PMC Bill Is the Most Consequential Defense Proposal of the War
Europe06 May 26
Ukraine Ceasefire Declaration Met with Russian Strike on Zaporizhzhia Facility
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's War on the Pope: How a Diplomatic Crisis With the Vatican Became a Foreign Policy Flashpoint
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's 'skirmishes' doctrine and the Iran ultimatum
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: Oil Prices Slide as Iran Deal Talks Resume
Long Reads06 May 26
The Kindness Calculus: How Xi Is Playing Trump on Iran
Opinion06 May 26
Trump's War on Corporate Transparency Is Winning
Americas06 May 26
Trump Administration Moves to Tariff Third-Party Fuel Exports to Cuba
Long Reads06 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis: How Trump's 48-Hour Operation Became a Strategic Gift to Tehran
The Weekly06 May 26
Trump Puts Strait of Hormuz Escort Mission on Pause as Iran Offers 14-Point Ceasefire Plan
The Weekly06 May 26
Trump Pumps Brakes on Project Freedom as Iran Diplomacy Resurfaces
Intelligence06 May 26
Trump Pauses Strait of Hormuz Naval Operation as Commercial Vessels Defy US Guidance
MENA06 May 26
Trump Pauses Strait of Hormuz Operation, Citing ‘Great Progress’ on Iran Deal
Energy06 May 26
Trump Pauses Project Freedom in Strait of Hormuz — But Blockade Holds
Long Reads06 May 26
The Strait of De-escalation: Why Trump Paused Project Freedom and What It Signals About the US-Iran Diplomatic Opening
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump Pauses Project Freedom: What the Hormuz Truce Reveals About Dollar-Era Deterrence
Intelligence06 May 26
Trump Pauses Iran War Operation: What the Ceasefire Tells Us About the Deal Beneath
MENA06 May 26
Trump Pauses Hormuz Operation as US-Iran Nuclear Talks Gain Momentum
Energy06 May 26
Trump Pauses Hormuz Operation as Iran Talks Advance
Long Reads06 May 26
Hormuz in the Balance: How Trump Bought Time on a Strait That Moves the World's Oil
Energy06 May 26
Trump Pauses Hormuz Blockade Days After Launch, Iran Deal Hinges on Compliance
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Nuclear Ultimatum Meets Iran's Stiff Upper Lip
Opinion06 May 26
Trump's Minute-a-Day Workout and the Performance of Restraint
MENA06 May 26
Trump Sets May 14 Deadline for Iran Deal as Uranium-to-US Pledge Resurfaces
Science06 May 26
Trump's Lebanon-Israel Gambit Stalls as Hezbollah Warns Aoun-Netanyahu Meeting Would End Lebanon
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the 77% Peace Bet
MENA06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum: Hormuz Pause Holds, But a Deal Remains Elusive
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum Collides With the Arithmetic of Hormuz
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the Fragile Architecture of Global Oil Pricing
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum and the China Shadow: The Diplomatic Chess Game Behind the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads06 May 26
The Strait Ultimatum: Trump's Iran Window Is Narrowing
Long Reads06 May 26
The Uncomfortable Silence After Iran's Strike: What Trump's Little Boats Declaration Left Unanswered
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's One-Week Iran Ultimatum Lands Against the Clock of a Beijing Visit
Asia06 May 26
Trump's Iran offer exposes the fractures in maximum pressure's successor strategy
Energy06 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum Meets Tehran's Red Line — and the World Holds Its Breath
MENA06 May 26
Trump's Iran Diplomacy Walks a Fine Line Between Deal and Bombardment
The Weekly06 May 26
Trump's Iran Deal Ultimatum Collides With 'Skirmish' Framing as Netanyahu Watches Closely
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Iran Deal Gambit: Market Rally Meets Threat of Bombing
Long Reads06 May 26
The Calculus of Ceasefire: What Trump's Iran Optimism Hides
MENA06 May 26
Trump's Iran Calculus: Regime Pressure, Nuclear Red Lines, and the Market as Scoreboard
Long Reads06 May 26
The Two-Day Navy: How Trump's Hormuz Gambit Collapsed Into a Deal
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's 50-Hour Hormuz Reversal: What the Sudden Iran Deal Pivot Reveals
Long Reads06 May 26
The Siege That Isn't: What Trump's Hormuz Pause Reveals About American Leverage
Intelligence06 May 26
Trump presses pause on Hormuz naval operation, betting on Iran talks — but shipowners aren't convinced
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: How the Strait Became the Pivot Point in Washington's Iran Gambit
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: Why Washington Hit Pause on the Strait of Hormuz Operation
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: How a Diplomatic Thaw Is Rewiring Global Energy Markets
Letters06 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Blockade Is an Economic Bluster Machine Built on Borrowed Certainty
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Financial Siege on Iran and the Shadow of a Beijing Deal
Americas06 May 26
Trump Administration Signs Executive Order Expanding Cuba Fuel Sanctions Regime
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Economic Shock Therapy: How the White House Is Quietly Restructuring the Global Order
Long Reads06 May 26
Trump's Deadline-Free Iran Strategy and the Oil Price Calculus Behind It
Letters06 May 26
Trump's Contradictory Iran Signals Expose the Limits of Coercive Diplomacy
The Weekly06 May 26
Trump's China Visit, Taiwan, and the Iran Variable: A Geopolitical Primer
Asia06 May 26
Trump Administration Suspends Strait of Hormuz Freedom Project, Drawing Mixed Regional Reactions
Long Reads06 May 26
The Quiet Revolution: How Trump 2.0 Is Reshaping America's Role in the World
Obituaries06 May 26
Thiago Ávila, Gaza Flotilla Activist, in Israeli Custody as Mother Dies in Brazil
Culture06 May 26
Tehran Orders Schools to Refund Transportation Fees Paid During Virtual Education
Obituaries06 May 26
Ted Turner, Who Built the First 24-Hour News Network, Is Dead at 87
Geopolitics06 May 26
Ted Turner, CNN's Founder and Architect of 24-Hour News, Dies at 87
Obituaries06 May 26
Ted Turner, Founder of CNN and Pioneer of 24-Hour News, Dies at 87
Energy06 May 26
Swiss Energy Chief Questions Nuclear Revival as Iran War Forces Reckoning on Western Power Grids
Long Reads06 May 26
Strategy's Bitcoin Pivot: Saylor Floats Selling to Fund Dividends as Q1 Loss Hits $12.5 Billion
Long Reads06 May 26
The Strait That Remembers: Why Iran Holds the Geographic Upper Hand in the Gulf
Africa06 May 26
South Africa Confirms Two Human-to-Human Hantavirus Cases Linked to Cruise Ship
Long Reads06 May 26
The Sound on Qeshm: Air Defense Incident or Something More in the Strait of Hormuz
Americas06 May 26
Sheinbaum Declares Mexican Sovereignty Non-Negotiable as Morena Consolidates Under New Leader
Long Reads06 May 26
The Quarterly Reckoning: How the SEC's Corporate Disclosure Pivot Could Reshape American Capital Markets
MENA06 May 26
Saudi Arabia Posts Largest Budget Deficit Since 2018 as Diversification Push Strains Public Finances
Long Reads06 May 26
Russia's Kyiv Evacuation Demand: Coercion, Signaling, or Prelude to Strike
Sport06 May 26
Russell Wilson Tests the 2026 Market as Veteran Quarterback Pursuit Continues
Oceania06 May 26
Rheinmetall Chief Flags German Ammunition Production Capacity as Atlantic Alliance Questions Persist
Asia06 May 26
Rezaei: America cannot escape Middle East with a show — but the show has already shifted
Arts06 May 26
Pussy Riot and FEMEN Interrupt Venice Biennale With Pro-Ukraine Performance
Arts06 May 26
Pussy Riot Disrupts Venice Biennale Opening with Anti-Putin Performance
Long Reads06 May 26
Project Deadlock: How Trump's Hormuz Gambit Ran Aground
Europe06 May 26
Poland Pledges Europe's Mightiest Army by 2030, Courts Expanded US Presence
Americas06 May 26
Peru's Balcázar Faces Press Freedom Reckoning as Censorship Claims Mount
Energy06 May 26
Pentagon Puts on a Show of Force While Hormuz Negotiations Run Silent
Culture06 May 26
The Backdoor in the Build: How One Open-Source Tool Exposed a Systemic Gap in AI Supply Chain Security
Tech06 May 26
OpenAI's Structural Reckoning: Spin-offs, Social Networks, and $50 Billion Bets
Long Reads06 May 26
The $130 Billion Question: OpenAI's Gambit Between Mars, Restructuring, and the AGI Horizon
Opinion06 May 26
OpenAI Is Spending $50 Billion. Who Gets to Ask Why?
Long Reads06 May 26
Oil at $200 'Worth It': The Day Trump Signed a Hemispheric Security Doctrine
Asia06 May 26
North Korea Reaffirms Nuclear Weapons State Status, Rejects Treaty Obligations
Sport06 May 26
NBA Playoffs Enter Round Two as Lakers, Thunder Set Stage for High-Stakes Series
Long Reads06 May 26
The $30 Billion Question: Greg Brockman's Stake and the Battle for OpenAI's Future
Investigations06 May 26
Musk v. OpenAI: The Testimony, the Threats, and the $1 Billion Question
Long Reads06 May 26
Musk Folds xAI Into SpaceX in Bet on AI-Infra Integration
Oceania06 May 26
Moscow's Changing Household Economy: Filipino Nannies and the Sanctions Signal
Culture06 May 26
Mon Rocket Festival Tests Sacred Tradition Against Modern Thailand's Secular Turn
Sport06 May 26
Mark Cuban's Indiana Gambit: Billionaire's Hands-On College Football Recruiting Raises Familiar Questions
Culture06 May 26
Linea Donates ZK Stack to Linux Foundation in Bet on Open-Source Neutrality
Culture06 May 26
Leon Kennedy at 70: Capcom's Long Game With Gaming's Most Durable Survivalist
Sport06 May 26
Lawrence Taylor Returns Home After Hospitalization: The Legend, The Silence, and What We Don't Talk About
Obituaries06 May 26
Israeli Forces Report Casualties Among Special Forces Units Operating in Khan Yunis
Culture06 May 26
Khaled Sabsabi and the Biennale's Political Minefield: Art, Accusation, and the Limits of Tolerance
Culture06 May 26
Kenya's Sh40 Million Film Bet: Ruto's Creative Pitch Meets the Kenyatta Retirement Storm
Africa06 May 26
State Power and Settled Disputes: Inside Kenya's Marurui Demolition and the Kenyatta Retirement Fight
Arts06 May 26
Joe Lewis's Billion-Dollar Art Trove Comes to Auction as the Billionaire Liquidity Wave Reshapes the Market
Oceania06 May 26
Japan's Takaichi Tests the Diplomatic Middle in Canberra and Hanoi
MENA06 May 26
Israeli Strikes Target Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Tensions Escalate
Letters06 May 26
Israeli Strikes Hit Lebanese Towns of Zalaya and Kunene, Killing Four
MENA06 May 26
Israeli Strike Kills Senior Hamas Official's Son in Gaza City
Tech06 May 26
Israeli Strike Hits Displacement Tent Camp in Gaza City, Killing Three
Europe06 May 26
Israeli Military Presence Reaches 64 Percent of Gaza as Court Extends Detention of Flotilla Activists
Europe06 May 26
Israeli Court Extends Detention of Gaza Flotilla Activists as Fresh Killings Reported in Gaza
MENA06 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Target Southern Lebanon Towns of Kfar Tibnit and Touline
MENA06 May 26
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Lebanese Internal Security Forces Facility in Kfar Joz
Long Reads06 May 26
Israeli Airstrike Hits Beirut for First Time Since Ceasefire as Tensions Escalate in Lebanon
Long Reads06 May 26
Israeli Airstrike Targets Bekaa Valley as Regional Tensions Escalate
MENA06 May 26
Israeli Airstrike Hits Beirut's Dahieh for First Time Since Ceasefire
MENA06 May 26
Israel Deepens Strikes Across Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Exchanges Intensify
Culture06 May 26
Iranian official cites student deaths in Minab heat as political ammunition against US
Culture06 May 26
Forty Years On, Iranian Cinema Still Can't Look Away From the War
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Leverage and the Coming Regional Realignment
Africa06 May 26
Iran's Reformist Government Courts Europe While US Nuclear Talks Remain in Limbo
Energy06 May 26
Iran Launches Strait of Hormuz Toll Authority as European Naval Response Remains Uncertain
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: How Tehran Built a Toll Booth on the World's Most Critical Oil Artery
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Stranglehold and the Slow Fracturing of Gulf State Alignment with Washington
Long Reads06 May 26
The $6 Trillion Chokepoint: How Iran Turned a Standoff Into a Revenue Stream
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Tehran Builds a Shipping Fee Authority as US Eyes Counterterrorism Response
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Gulf Gambit: Inside the IRGC's Maritime Control Play
Long Reads06 May 26
The Narrowing Strait: How Iran Redrew the Map of Gulf Diplomacy
Long Reads06 May 26
How Iran's Hormuz Gamble Is Fracturing the Global Economy
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: How a New Shipping Authority Could Redraw the World's Most Strategic Waterway
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Hormuz Defiance and the Fracturing of Gulf Dependency
Asia06 May 26
Iran's Foreign Minister Arrives in Beijing as Nuclear Talks Hang in Balance
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran's Erbil Strike Tests the Limits of Iraq's Sovereignty — and Washington's Patience
Long Reads06 May 26
The 77% Illusion: Why Iran's 'Elevated Standing' May Be a Negotiating Position, Not a Diplomatic Fact
The Weekly06 May 26
Iran Says It Shot Down an Enemy Drone Near the Strait of Hormuz
Science06 May 26
Iran Dismisses Axios MoU as US Wish-List as Version Dispute Clouds Nuclear Talks
Letters06 May 26
Iran Denies Deal Talks as Peace Odds Hit 77% — and Beijing Weighs In
Asia06 May 26
Iran's Beijing Gambit: Araghchi Seeks Chinese Backstop for a Post-War Regional Order
Long Reads06 May 26
Iran Courts Beijing's Strategic Patience as Araghchi Revises the Islamic Republic's Global Story
Africa06 May 26
India's Pharmaceutical Pipeline Is Feeding a Silent Opioid Emergency in West Africa
MENA06 May 26
IDF Opens Inquiry After Image Appears to Show Soldier Desecrating Virgin Mary Statue in Southern Lebanon
Defense06 May 26
Hungary Returns Seized Oschadbank Funds in Rare Diplomatic Gesture Toward Kyiv
Long Reads06 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Flashpoint: How Iran's Ship Seizure and America's Suspended Mission Exposed the Limits of Coercive…
Long Reads06 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz Gambit: Trump's Pause, Iran's Hold, and the Architecture of Gulf Pressure
Long Reads06 May 26
Hormuz at the Heart of It: How the Strait Became the Central Fault Line in the US-Iran Nuclear Talks
Long Reads06 May 26
The Hormuz Gambit: How Trump's Two-Day Blockade Plan Exposed America's Strategic Contradiction
Long Reads06 May 26