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The Weekly27 Apr
Sri Lanka's Twin Governance Tests: Monks, Money, and the Limits of Recovery
The Weekly27 Apr
The Screech and the Cause: How Poland's Most Unlikely Cultural Export Became a Fundraising Juggernaut
The Weekly27 Apr
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanon Amid Fragile Ceasefire
The Weekly27 Apr
Iran's Three-Stage Negotiation Formula: What Tehran Wants, What It Won't Discuss, and Why the Strait of Hormuz Is the Leverage Point
The Weekly27 Apr
Iran's Araghchi meets Putin in St Petersburg with Hormuz opening on the table
The Weekly27 Apr
The Disconnect at the Center of Trumpworld
The Weekly26 Apr
Storm Kills Two in Ukraine, Injures Two More as Rescue Teams Deployed Across Thirteen Regions
The Weekly26 Apr
Trump's three-day Iran ultimatum exposes the fractured state of nuclear diplomacy
The Weekly26 Apr
Trump's Ukraine Gambit: Europe's €90B Pledge and the Question of American Staying Power
The Weekly26 Apr
President Trump Evacuated After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner
The Weekly26 Apr
The Trump Assassination Attempt and the Architecture of Political Violence in America
The Weekly26 Apr
Tashkent's Cash Ban: Uzbekistan's Quiet War on the Shadow Economy
The Weekly26 Apr
Secret Service Agent Shot at Trump Property, Suspect Detained
The Weekly26 Apr
Pakistan Lifts Islamabad Curfew as Iran-US Talks Stall Over Oil Sanctions Blockade
The Weekly26 Apr
Mali's Defense Minister Killed in Attack on Residence: What We Know
The Weekly26 Apr
Khamenei's death puts Araghchi in the spotlight as Iran navigates succession and a regional war
The Weekly25 Apr
Mali's Junta Problem: Why the Bamako Offensive Exposes a Decade of Failed Security Architecture
The Weekly25 Apr
Iran's Divided Frame: 56 Nights of Street Protests and Araqchi's Peace Offensive
The Weekly25 Apr
The DOJ's Paradox: Cuts to Law Enforcement Under an Administration That Vows to Be Tough on Crime
The Weekly23 Apr
U.S. Intercepts Stateless Tanker in Indian Ocean, Alleges Iranian Oil Link
The Weekly23 Apr
US Naval Blockade of Iran Enters Second Week as 31 vessels Diverted and Airspace Remains Unbreached
The Weekly23 Apr
US Pauses Weapons Shipments to Estonia, Iranian State Media Reports
The Weekly23 Apr
Trump's Strait of Hormuz gambit and the entertainment spectacle that almost drowned it out
The Weekly23 Apr
Trump Sets Three-to-Five-Day Clock for Iran Deal as Questions Mount Over Tehran's Military Reach
The Weekly23 Apr
Trump's 'shoot to kill' order on Hormuz mines: escalation or deterrence?
The Weekly23 Apr
The Lights That Stay On: Moscow's Caribbean Lifeline and the Calculus of Cost
The Weekly23 Apr
Khamenei Labels Enemy Media Operations a Direct Threat to Iranian National Unity
The Weekly23 Apr
Iran Tightens Its Grip on the Strait of Hormuz as Diplomatic Window Reopens
The Weekly23 Apr
34 Tankers, $4 Billion, and the Strait: How Iran Is Testing America's Red Lines
The Weekly23 Apr
How Iran's Sporting Revival Mirrors Its Geopolitical Realignment
The Weekly23 Apr
Iranian Air Defenses Activated Over Tehran; No Confirmed Strike as IDF Denies Involvement
The Weekly23 Apr
Iran Alleges US Using UAE Territory for Attack Planning in Formal UN Complaint
The Weekly22 Apr
Deep-Strike Window: Ukraine Hits Occupied Melitopol Infrastructure as Long-Range Constraints Easing
The Weekly22 Apr
Trump-World Financial Entanglements: Two Cracks in the Façade
The Weekly22 Apr
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Extension: Diplomatic Pause or Strategic Delay Before Strikes Resume?
The Weekly22 Apr
Six Months to Clear the Strait: Pentagon's Sobering Assessment on Hormuz Demining
The Weekly22 Apr
The Aid Equation: PEPFAR's Departure, Iran's Ceasefire, and a New Transactional Order
The Weekly22 Apr
Pakistan's Ceasefire Diplomacy Forces Trump to Extend Iran Truce — For Now
The Weekly22 Apr
New York's Prediction Market Crackdown Is a Fight Over Who Gets to Regulate Crypto
The Weekly22 Apr
Navy Secretary Phelan Resigns Effective Immediately, Pentagon Confirms
The Weekly22 Apr
Lebanon seeks one-month truce extension as Washington hosts new ceasefire talks
The Weekly22 Apr
Justin Sun Sues Trump-Adjacent Crypto Project. The Real Story Is Who Left Holding the Bag
The Weekly22 Apr
Islamabad's Quiet Diplomacy: How Pakistan Is Carving a Mediation Lane Between Washington and Tehran
The Weekly22 Apr
IRGC Gunboat Fires on Container Ship Off Oman Coast in Escalation Warning
The Weekly22 Apr
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Seized Tankers, Undersea Cables, and the Six-Month Window
The Weekly22 Apr
Hezbollah Claims Four Cross-Border Operations as Rescue Teams Search for Missing Lebanese Journalist
The Weekly22 Apr
Britain's Smoke-Free Generation: Bold Policy or Paternalist Overreach?
The Weekly22 Apr
Anthropic's Mythos Launch Day Breach: What the Unauthorized Access Reveals About AI Security
The Weekly21 Apr
The Pattern the Market Already Knows: Trump, Bitcoin, and the Iran Signal
The Weekly21 Apr
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Ultimatum and the UAE Currency Gambit
The Weekly21 Apr
Trump's Iran Calculus: Escalation, Negotiations, and the Fuel Price Trap
The Weekly21 Apr
Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire as Oil Markets React to Fragile Diplomatic Window
The Weekly21 Apr
Tim Cook Departs: Apple Begins Its Most Consequential Transition in Two Decades
The Weekly21 Apr
The Ship, the Sentencing, and the Squeeze: America's Coercive Arcade Runs Out of Coins
The Weekly21 Apr
Pakistan Awaits Iran Response as Ceasefire Deadline Nears
The Weekly21 Apr
The Onion Takes Infowars: Satire, Liquidation, and the Limits of Irony
The Weekly21 Apr
Iran Signals US Openness to Lifting Hormuz Blockade as Negotiations Loom
The Weekly21 Apr
IDF Removes Soldiers From Combat After Sledgehammer Destruction of Jesus Statue in Lebanon
The Weekly21 Apr
China's Coal Pivot and the Oil Ceasefire: Energy Security After the Iran War
The Weekly21 Apr
Arbitrum Security Council Freezes KelpDAO Exploit Funds as LayerZero Vulnerability Takes Center Stage
The Weekly21 Apr
Apple's Succession Plan: John Ternus Takes the Reins as AI Reshapes the Tech Landscape
The Weekly21 Apr
Amazon's $25 Billion Bet on Anthropic Reshapes the AI Power Map
The Weekly20 Apr
Ukraine Strikes Deep Inside Russia as Kharkiv Front Hardens
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Oval Office Spectacle and the Trading Patterns That Won't Stay in the Frame
The Weekly20 Apr
The President's Victory Lap: What Trump's Truth Social Posts Reveal About War Communication
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Ceasefire Deadline Puts Iran Nuclear Talks on a Knife-Edge
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: The Naval Blockade, the Seized Ship, and the Deal That Hasn't Come
The Weekly20 Apr
Stavropol, terrorism, and the grammar of blame
The Weekly20 Apr
Russia's Iran Gambit: What Peskov's 'Not a Mediator' Statement Actually Reveals
The Weekly20 Apr
The Price of a Frozen Front: Ceasefire Terms, Grounded Flights, and the Fuel Bill
The Weekly20 Apr
Iran Nuclear Talks: Islamabad's Quiet Diplomacy and the Trump administration's 90-Day Clock
The Weekly20 Apr
Iran's 'Final Punishment' Rhetoric Tests the Limits of Diplomatic Signal
The Weekly20 Apr
Iran Declares Hormuz Control 'Legal' as US Blockade Strains Pakistan-Brokered Talks
The Weekly20 Apr
Ceasefire, Drones, and a Million Returns: What the Lebanon Truce Reveals
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Third Cabinet Departure: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid Misconduct Probe
The Weekly20 Apr
Canada's Carney Turns the Page on Continental Complacency
The Weekly20 Apr
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's Axis of Resistance Declaration Tests Tehran's Messaging Calculus
The Weekly20 Apr
Berri's Revelation Tests Lebanon's Quiet Ceasefire Calculus
The Weekly20 Apr
The $60 Bet: Bessent's Withholding Gambit and the Economics of Political Optics
The Weekly20 Apr
Asia's Clean Energy Surge Is Redrawing the Map of Global Power
The Weekly19 Apr
Wall Street Wants to Wager on the Future — and That Should Worry You
The Weekly19 Apr
US-Iranian Forces Clash in Gulf Waters as Tensions Escalate
The Weekly19 Apr
Hood Ride to Prison: Ukraine's Mobilization Crackdown and the Anatomy of a Conscription Confrontation
The Weekly19 Apr
Trump Says Iran Commits to Opening Strait of Hormuz; Oil Prices Tumble as Deal Talks Advance
The Weekly19 Apr
Trump Claims Iran Violated Ceasefire as Negotiations Spiral Into Cross-Border Threats
The Weekly19 Apr
Trump Cancels Vance Islamabad Trip Hours After Announcement, Citing Secret Service Timeline
The Weekly19 Apr
Iran's Diplomatic Rejection of Second-Round US Talks Deepens Nuclear Standoff
The Weekly19 Apr
The Strait Question: How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Exposed the Limits of US Economic Coercion
The Weekly19 Apr
Iran's Hormuz Reversal and the Dollar-Micronarrative: Why Markets Missed the Geopolitical Ratchet
The Weekly19 Apr
The IDF's Bint Jbeil Withdrawal and a Viral Photo: What the Sources Show
The Weekly19 Apr
The Fracturing of the 'Special Relationship': Bipartisan Consensus on Israel and the Limits of Atlanticist Propaganda
The Weekly19 Apr
Four Cruise Ships Through an Iranian Minefield: Hormuz as Geopolitical Stress Test
The Weekly19 Apr
The Diplomacy of Loyalty: Trump, Israel, and the Costs of Unconditional Alignment
The Weekly19 Apr
Day 51: Hormuz Standoff Tests the Limits of Deterrence and Diplomacy
The Weekly19 Apr
Bitcoin's Ceasefire Highs Are Fading — And the Reason Is the Real Story
The Weekly19 Apr
Treasury Secretary Bessent Calls Withholding Cut a 'Real Wage Increase' — But It's Just Timing, Not Money
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week in Diplomacy: Hormuz, a Papal Pivot to Angola, Fidan's 'New Enemy' Speech, and a Brazil–Mexico–Spain Bloc on Cuba
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week in Financial Flows: Bitcoin ETFs, a Stablecoin FX Market, and Central Bankers War-Gaming Their Own Lehman
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week in Media Narratives: Hormuz, Kyiv, and the UNIFIL Soldier — A Ledger of Selective Outrage
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week the AI Oligarchs Stopped Pretending: Altman's Burning House, Anthropic's Return to the West Wing, and the Infrastructure Capture Nobody Named
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week the Deterrence Ledger Rewrote Itself: Pyongyang's Test, Ghalibaf's F-35 Claim, and Moscow's European Warning
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week the Dollar Architecture Stress-Tested Itself: Russian-Oil Waivers, USDt Oil Tolls, and the Bank of Wars Walking Into a Basel War-Game
The Weekly18 Apr
The Week the Retrospective Arrived: How 'Dragged Into War' Became the Official Story of Trump's Iran Campaign
The Weekly18 Apr
The Quiet Week of the Multipolar Resource Turn: CITIC in Astana, a Purge in Caracas, and the Rerouting of the Global Middle
The Weekly18 Apr
Qalibaf Declares Strategic Failure: Iran Resisted Regime Change and Venezuelaization, Parliament Speaker Asserts
The Weekly18 Apr
Iran's Parliamentary Speaker and the Sovereignty Script: Reading Qalibaf's 'Structural Resilience' Narrative Through a Structural Media Lens
The Weekly18 Apr
Iran's Qalibaf and the Triadic State: Populist Sovereignty and the Collapsing Distinction Between Street and Diplomatic Arena
The Weekly18 Apr
Iran's Qalibaf Declares '49 Days' of National Resilience: Square, Street, and Diplomacy as Unified Front
The Weekly18 Apr
Hormuz Reopened: Iran Closes Strategic Waterway, Reframes Energy Sovereignty Against US Blockade Claims
The Weekly18 Apr
Hormuz Tensions Recede but Reveal Persistent Energy Vulnerability
The Weekly18 Apr