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The Weekly11 Jun
The Qinghai–Tibet line, a Polish seaside room, and the slow grind of European rail: a weekly digest
The Weekly10 Jun
U.S. strikes on Iran: what the wire says, what it doesn't, and what comes next
The Weekly10 Jun
The 21:35 UTC Hour: How the Iran Strike Was Reported Before It Was Understood
The Weekly10 Jun
Inside 'Mindychgate': the SBU detention of Vasyl Vesely and the audiotape probe reshaping Ukraine's wartime elite
The Weekly10 Jun
Tehran signals escalation: Iranian lawmaker claims territorial gains from a '40-day war' and warns of further expansion
The Weekly10 Jun
The Blocked Ledger: How UK Banks Are Quietly Reshaping Crypto Access
The Weekly10 Jun
Netanyahu's English-language pitch to Lebanon: a calibrated appeal, not a call to surrender
The Weekly10 Jun
Gates on the Hill: what a closed-door Epstein deposition tells us about the limits of disclosure
The Weekly10 Jun
Netanyahu's late-cycle return to the hustings, and the American question he cannot outrun
The Weekly10 Jun
Nine strikes on Majdal Zoun: how southern Lebanon became the template for Israel’s post-ceasefire pressure campaign
The Weekly10 Jun
A tournament of contradictions: how the 2026 World Cup exposed a year of strain
The Weekly10 Jun
Israel says it killed Hamas finance chief in northern Gaza as aid corridor talks drag
The Weekly10 Jun
Taliban Says Pakistani Airstrikes Killed 13, Including Children, in Border Provinces
The Weekly10 Jun
Price transparency meets deport-to-vote: a Tuesday of administrative hardball in Washington
The Weekly09 Jun
Strikes on Hormozgan: a fast-moving night on the Strait of Hormuz
The Weekly09 Jun
The week the world's pressure points all blinked at once
The Weekly09 Jun
The Week the Machines Stopped Cooperating: Drone Rescues, AI Rehiring, and the Limits of Headline Automation
The Weekly09 Jun
When the public square turns hostile: Peterson, the post-liberal Left, and the closing of the conversation
The Weekly09 Jun
Kyiv's 600-missile promise: escalation, leverage, and the language of reciprocity
The Weekly09 Jun
Israel's southern Lebanon offensive enters a costlier phase as casualty toll climbs
The Weekly09 Jun
Northern Border Breach Tests Israel’s Post-Ceasefire Defences
The Weekly09 Jun
"Very close" is doing a lot of work: how 37 Trump claims of an Iran deal are colliding with a Netanyahu ultimatum
The Weekly09 Jun
Kenya's Ebola facility standoff: a public health plan meets a sovereignty test
The Weekly09 Jun
Israel's Spies, China's Solar Glut, and the Architecture of Two Different Crises
The Weekly09 Jun
Xi Returns to Pyongyang: A Sino-North Korean Pact Rebuilt on Industrial and Strategic Asymmetry
The Weekly09 Jun
An Apache in the Strait: what a downed US helicopter tells us about the Hormuz standoff
The Weekly09 Jun
Siri, rebuilt: Apple's two-year bet on a voice that learned to wait
The Weekly09 Jun
Boos in Midtown: A Madison Square Garden Night as a Barometer of American Public Mood
The Weekly09 Jun
OpenAI files for IPO — and quietly opens a debate about whether the frontier should ever be slowed
The Weekly09 Jun
After the Sell-Off, the Blockade, and the Empty Promises: Reading the Week Washington Actually Delivered
The Weekly08 Jun
Trump to Netanyahu: Face Iran alone if you choose war — the off-ramp is closing
The Weekly08 Jun
Sam Bankman-Fried, the 25-year sentence and a pardon that may never come
The Weekly08 Jun
Israel's Strike on Iran and the Long Tail of a Twelve-Day War
The Weekly08 Jun
Israel's Lebanon ceasefire, three months in: violations, projectiles, and a 6% probability of withdrawal
The Weekly08 Jun
The Week's Three Quiet Alarms: Senate Testimony, a Middle East Brief, and a Credit Market That Isn't Listening
The Weekly08 Jun
Kharayeb strike lands at the centre of a wider southern Lebanon bombardment
The Weekly08 Jun
Iran's army chief issues fresh warning as Tehran accuses Israel of ceasefire violation
The Weekly08 Jun
Air defence over Kermanshah: a single Telegram alert and the information gap behind it
The Weekly08 Jun
The SpaceX IPO moment, and the financial press's Musk problem
The Weekly07 Jun
The shadow war ends: Iran fires from its own soil, and the architecture of deniability breaks
The Weekly06 Jun
Friday Evening in Gaza: An Open-Source Audit
The Weekly06 Jun
Strait of Hormuz at Midnight: Four Drones, Two Radar Sites, and a Chokepoint the World Cannot Afford to Lose
The Weekly05 Jun
Putin's 5 June 2026 message: $500B in reserves, no Zelenskyy meeting, and a request for more air defense
The Weekly05 Jun
The Ababil footage: Hezbollah's curated tank strike and the asymmetry of disclosure on the northern front
The Weekly04 Jun
Hezbollah's red line: Qassem rejects the US-drafted Lebanon ceasefire
The Weekly04 Jun
Pump talk: the arithmetic behind Trump's Iran message
The Weekly04 Jun
The 'ceasefire' that admits continued shooting
The Weekly04 Jun
The 'Crazy' Call: How the US-Israel Decision on Iran Got Inverted
The Weekly04 Jun
Bitcoin under $64,000 — and a miner's 9.5% preferred says more than the price does
The Weekly03 Jun
Trump's Iran two-step: a deal 'in weeks,' credit for a strike
The Weekly03 Jun
Tariffs, courts, Iran: the second-term portfolio takes shape
The Weekly03 Jun
The Weekly: A Single Day, Three Items, and the Cost of Velocity
The Weekly03 Jun
St. Petersburg and Moscow in the same night: the geometry of Ukraine's long-range campaign
The Weekly02 Jun
US Fires on Tanker Violating Iran Port Blockade as Rubio Declares 'War Is Over'
The Weekly02 Jun
Viral Lebanon Strike Footage and the Week's Stranger Moments
The Weekly02 Jun
Bitcoin Slides Below $67,000 as $700M Liquidated in Two Hours
The Weekly02 Jun
Poland's Right Questions Its Ukraine Welcome — A Diplomatic Chill in Warsaw
The Weekly02 Jun
Chasing the Algorithm: How Poland's Viral Meme Economy Exposes Platform Incentives
The Weekly02 Jun
Alphabet's $80bn AI Bet Signals a New Phase in Big Tech's Infrastructure Arms Race
The Weekly02 Jun
SpaceX's IPO Is Structuring the Deal for Insiders First
The Weekly02 Jun
Russia Launches One of Kyiv's Largest Missile Barrages Since Full-Scale Invasion
The Weekly01 Jun
Kyiv Under Fire Again: What Russia's Latest Strike Pattern Tells Us About the War's Third Year
The Weekly01 Jun
Iran Halts US Talks, Warns of Strike on Israel as Ceasefire Talks Collapse
The Weekly01 Jun
The Partial Ceasefire: What Israel's Agreement with Hezbollah Actually Means
The Weekly01 Jun
Nvidia's AI PC Gambit: Huang's Bold Claims Meet an Uncertain Reality
The Weekly01 Jun
Iran's Strait Gambit: Tehran Threatens Key Waterways as Nuclear Talks Fracture
The Weekly01 Jun
Israeli Airstrike Damages Largest Hospital in Tyre, Lebanon
The Weekly01 Jun
IDF Captures Beaufort Castle: What the Escalation in Southern Lebanon Tells Us About the War's Expanding Geometry
The Weekly01 Jun
Iran Halts US Nuclear Talks, Demands Israel Ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza
The Weekly01 Jun
Iranian Missiles Intercepted Over Kuwait: Questions About the Ceasefire
The Weekly01 Jun
China's Capital Conundrum: Tightening the Outbound Gate While Throwing Open the Bond Window
The Weekly01 Jun
Australia's Electoral Earthquake Meets the Graphite Question
The Weekly01 Jun
Powell's Warning and the Assault on Federal Reserve Independence
The Weekly01 Jun
Abel opens his playbook: Berkshire's $6.8bn bet on American housing
The Weekly01 Jun
Iranian Hackers Compromise Space Force Commander's Instagram in Visible Information Operation
The Weekly31 May
Ukraine's Dual Track: Zelensky Pursues Domestic Missile Production While Leaving Door Open to Russia Talks
The Weekly31 May
The US-Israeli Military Compact Deepens as Hezbollah Strikes Northern Israel
The Weekly31 May
Araghchi Dampens Expectations as US-Iran Diplomatic Back-Channel Remains in Neutral
The Weekly31 May
Beaufort Castle and the Escalation Calculus: Jerusalem's Moment of Decision
The Weekly31 May
Trump's Iran Nuclear Gambit: Between Bluster and Deal
The Weekly31 May
The Palm Room Frame: What Trump's Photo With Putin Reveals About Presidential Optics
The Weekly31 May
Victory Burns: PSG's Champions League Win and the Riots That Followed
The Weekly31 May
Escalation Without Resolution: What the Sirens Tell Us About Israel and Hezbollah's Unending War
The Weekly31 May
Three Years On, Israel Has Not Broken Hezbollah's Grip on Northern Border
The Weekly31 May
The Fed Abandons 'Transitory' and Wall Street Runs Longer Hours — What the Dual Shift Means for Global Markets
The Weekly31 May
Four Windows Into X: What 30 May 2026's Feed Tells Us About Where the Platform Stands
The Weekly30 May
The Economics of Being Seen: Virality, Validation, and the Attention Economy
The Weekly30 May
Seventeen Times in One Night: Northern Israel's Uninterrupted Crisis
The Weekly30 May
The Final That Haunts Paris Before It Begins: PSG, Arsenal, and the Infrastructure of Fear
The Weekly30 May
The Ceasefire That Isn't: Trump's Iran Victory Lap Runs Into Ground Truth
The Weekly30 May
Hezbollah Video Shows Merkava Strike as Israeli Ground Operations Expand Into Southern Lebanon
The Weekly30 May
Trump's Black Sea Gambit: Lifting the Blockade and the Illusion of Diplomatic Leverage
The Weekly30 May
Tehran's 'Third Betrayal' Narrative: How Iran Frames the Collapse of Nuclear Diplomacy
The Weekly30 May
The Hard-Power Doctrine: Hegseth's Alarm and the Fraying Architecture of Asia-Pacific Stability
The Weekly30 May
Structural Shifts: Oil Collapse, Extended Trading, and Generational Fractures
The Weekly30 May
Trump Reaches No Decision on Iran Nuclear Framework, Reports Say
The Weekly29 May
The Kennedy Center Ruling and the Limits of Executive Signature
The Weekly29 May
The Ceasefire Clause: What Axios's US-Iran Deal Reporting Reveals About the Lebanon Dimension
The Weekly29 May
The Week Dollar Logic Fractured: Iran Deal, ECB Warnings, and the Architecture of Instability
The Weekly29 May
The Polish Tax Authority Walked Into a Pizzeria in Gdańsk. What It Found Was a Luxury Pizza Problem.
The Weekly29 May
Trump's Iran Gambit: What the Nuclear Framework Deal Means for the Middle East
The Weekly29 May
FSB Says Novorossiysk Terror Plot Foiled as Black Sea Gateway City Returns to Headlines
The Weekly29 May
New Glenn Burns: Blue Origin's Rocky Road to Orbit
The Weekly29 May
Treasury Launches Trump Accounts App and Confirms $250 Bill Plan in One-Day Monetary Overhaul
The Weekly28 May
Drone incident and diplomatic pressure: Trump administration and Tehran trade blows at critical juncture
The Weekly28 May
Silicon Valley's Defense Reckoning: What Vance's AI Warfare Gambit Tells Us
The Weekly28 May
Trump's Face on the Dollar: The $250 Bill and the Limits of Presidential Vanity
The Weekly28 May
Marco Rubio's 55th: A Secretary of State Marks a Milestone in Uncertain Times
The Weekly28 May
Lebanon's Salam Issues Sharpest Condemnation Yet as Strikes Hit Tyre and Nabatieh
The Weekly28 May
Iran Strikes, Inflation Spike, Crypto Rout: Three Markets, One Shockwave
The Weekly28 May
The automation fault line: why Gen Z faces the sharpest edge of AI disruption
The Weekly28 May
The Automation Tax: How Gen Z Got Trapped Between the Gig Economy and the Algorithm
The Weekly28 May
Israeli Strikes Near Nabatieh Hospital Test the Boundaries of Lebanon Ceasefire Architecture
The Weekly28 May
IRGC Navy Asserts Full Control Over Strait of Hormuz After Encounter With US Vessels
The Weekly28 May
Ceasefire in Flames: US Strikes Iran as Peace Talks Collapse
The Weekly28 May
Trump's Triple Pledge Problem: Why Bold Promises Keep Colliding With Empty Budgets
The Weekly28 May
IRGC Retaliates After US Strike Near Bandar Abbas Airport
The Weekly28 May
Trump's Fractured Second Act: Tariff Defeat, Market Regulation, and the Iran Impasse
The Weekly28 May
Bitcoin Dips Below $73,000 as US Strikes on Iran Shake Crypto Markets
The Weekly28 May
US Strike Near Bandar Abbas: What We Know
The Weekly27 May
Sidon Strikes Mark Expanded Frontiers in Israel-Hezbollah Cross-Border Conflict
The Weekly27 May
Negotiating on Fumes: The Contradictions at the Heart of Trump's Iran Approach
The Weekly27 May
IDF Strikes Hamas Commanders in Northern Gaza as Truce Talks Stall
The Weekly27 May
Trump Rules Out Sanctions Relief as Iran Nuclear Talks Hit Roadblock
The Weekly27 May
Trump Rejects Iran Uranium Offer, Sparks Confusion Over Venezuela Remarks
The Weekly27 May
Texas Runoff and the Erosion of Institutional Accountability
The Weekly27 May
Hezbollah Claims Coordinated Strikes on Israeli Military Positions as Lebanon Border Tensions Intensify
The Weekly27 May
Ferrari's Electric Bet Tests the Limits of Brand Loyalty
The Weekly27 May
Israeli Ground Campaign in Lebanon Deepens as Strikes Kill 31 in Bint Jbeil
The Weekly27 May
Pam Bondi Joins White House AI Panel — and the Questions That Should Follow
The Weekly26 May
Ferrari's Electric Bet: Jony Ive, the China Question, and the Limits of the Supercar Formula
The Weekly26 May
The Cemetery Strike: Russia's Tactical Logic and the Moral Arithmetic of Expanded Targeting
The Weekly26 May
Israel Deepens Lebanon Operation, Cabinet Authorises Security Belt Fortification
The Weekly26 May
500 Targets, One Lawsuit, and a Ceasefire That Keeps Slipping
The Weekly26 May
Rubio's Yerevan Stop: What Washington's New Caucasus Opening Means for Armenia—and Its Neighbours
The Weekly26 May
Beijing's Diplomatic Tightrope: China Positions Itself Between Iranian Nuclear Talks and Russian Escalation in Ukraine
The Weekly26 May
The World Cup's Geopolitical Test: Iran, Security, and the 2026 Tournament's Uncertain Future
The Weekly26 May
Khamenei's Hajj Message: A Strategic Mix of Anti-Israel Rhetoric and Pan-Islamic Outreach
The Weekly26 May
The View From Starobelsk: Documenting Destruction in Occupied Ukrainian Territory
The Weekly26 May
Russia Denies Infrastructure Sabotage Claims as Ukraine Intelligence Warns of Fresh Kyiv Strikes
The Weekly25 May
Unitree's Street-Level Moment: China Puts Humanoid Robots in Motion
The Weekly25 May
The Hidden Wreckage: How Forgotten Aviation Stories Surface and What They Teach Us About Memory
The Weekly25 May
Hezbollah Drills Down: Ababil Drone Swarms Target Israeli Forces in Southern Lebanon
The Weekly25 May
Hormuz, Hormuz, Hormuz: The Chokepoint Diplomacy Reshaping the Middle East War
The Weekly25 May
Russia Advises Foreign Nationals to Depart Kyiv Immediately as War Enters New Phase
The Weekly25 May
Trump's Iran Deal Carries a Catch: Normalize With Israel or Miss Out
The Weekly25 May
Pope Leo XIV: Vatican's Historic Slavery Apology and the New Colonialism Warning
The Weekly25 May
Iran Excludes U.S. from Hormuz Management in Provisional Deal, Reopening Waterway to Oil Traffic
The Weekly25 May
Rubio's Iran Gambit: Can a 60-Day Ceasefire Hold the World's Most Strategic Waterway?
The Weekly25 May
The Informal Safety Net: How Platform Workers and ordinary citizens are left to plug the gaps their institutions create
The Weekly25 May
Thomas Massie Vows to Read Epstein Client Names Before Leaving Congress
The Weekly24 May
Trump's Tariff Blockade and the $945 Million Crypto Reckoning
The Weekly24 May
The Deal That Wasn't: Why the US-Iran Nuclear Framework Is Fracturing Before Anyone Signed Anything
The Weekly24 May
Hezbollah's Drone Barrage: FPV and Ababil Footage Reshapes the Northern Israel Border Calculus
The Weekly24 May
Negotiating at Gunpoint: The U.S.-Iran Ceasefire and the Strait of Hormuz
The Weekly24 May
Russia Launches Massive Strike Across Ukraine as Zelensky Reports Four Dead, Around 100 Injured
The Weekly24 May
Israeli Strikes Hit Southern Lebanon Towns of Nabatieh, Srifa
The Weekly24 May
Iran-US Nuclear Talks Stall Over "One or Two" Clauses as Trust Deficit Widens
The Weekly24 May
White House Shooting Suspect Named as 21-Year-Old Nasire Best; Secret Service Says No Staff Injuries
The Weekly24 May
White House Checkpoint Shooting Tests Secret Service Protocols and Mental Health Intervention Gaps
The Weekly24 May
Kyiv Under Fire: Inside Russia's Largest Missile Barrage of 2026
The Weekly24 May
Usyk Claims Controversial Eleventh-Round Victory Amid Referee Stoppage Debate
The Weekly23 May
Security Forces Contain Shooting Incident Near White House, Two Injured
The Weekly23 May
Iran Denies Trump's 'Largely Negotiated' Deal Claims on Strait of Hormuz
The Weekly23 May
Israel's Lobbying Campaign Against a US-Iranian Nuclear Understanding
The Weekly23 May
Pope Leo XIV's Sign Language, Corporate Profits, and the New Architecture of Moral Authority
The Weekly23 May
Trump's Communication Strategy: Market Records, Tariff Uncertainty, and the Narrative That Covers Everything
The Weekly22 May
Ukrainian Drones Strike Russian Black Sea Hub Novorossiysk, Triggering Port Fire
The Weekly22 May
Hungary's New PM Reverses Orbán's Hard-Line Positions on ICC and Ukrainian Grain
The Weekly22 May
Tulsi Gabbard Leaves the Intelligence Archipelago
The Weekly22 May
Putin's Starobelsk Accusation Is the Latest Step in a Pattern That Predates the Strike Claims
The Weekly22 May
Trump Media's Bitcoin Bet Is Bleeding — and Washington Looks the Other Way
The Weekly22 May
Washington's AI Push Meets a $162 Billion Accountability Problem
The Weekly22 May
Drone Strike on Starobelsk Dormitory Tests Civilian Casualty Reporting in Ukraine Conflict
The Weekly22 May
Three Decisions, One Signal: The Administration That Won't Look in the Mirror
The Weekly21 May
Tehran Muscat Toll Proposal Reshapes Gulf Transit Politics
The Weekly21 May
Gaza health crisis deepens as Israel deports flotilla activists, UNRWA documents 125,000 skin infections
The Weekly21 May
Poland's abortion debate resurfaces after reported case of selective reduction without medical grounds
The Weekly21 May
The Sanctions Rift and the Nuclear Signal: Three Developments Converging on the Ukraine War
The Weekly20 May
Oil Prices Tumble on US-Iran Deal Optimism as Tehran Denounces "War" Push
The Weekly20 May
Fiber-Optic Hezbollah Drones Deep in Israeli Territory Signal Shifting Drone-Warfare Calculus
The Weekly20 May
Day 82: Markets rally as Senate moves to limit Trump's Iran war authority
The Weekly20 May
Beijing's Balancing Act: Xi Hosts Putin as China Cements a Partnership the West Cannot Quite Define
The Weekly20 May
Trump administration plays both cards on Iran: talks progress, forces stay 'locked and loaded'
The Weekly19 May
Khamenei's Third Sacred Defense: Iran's Long Game for Regional Dominance
The Weekly19 May
UAE Intercepts Six Hostile Drones Near Barakah Nuclear Plant, Attributes Origin to Iraq
The Weekly19 May
Musk vs. OpenAI: The Verdict That Sets AI's Commercial Path in Stone
The Weekly18 May
San Diego Police Respond to Active Shooter at Islamic Center of San Diego
The Weekly18 May
The Loyalty Performance: Hegseth, Massie, and the Pentagon's Political Turn
The Weekly18 May
Trump Rejects Iran's Updated Deal Proposal, Raising Risk of Wider Regional Conflict
The Weekly18 May
Strategy's $2 Billion Bitcoin Bet Tests the Market's Conviction
The Weekly18 May
Trump's Hormuz ultimatum exposes the limits of American leverage in the Gulf
The Weekly18 May
The Strait of Hormuz Is Now a Geopolitical Flashpoint — and Oil Markets Are Paying Attention
The Weekly18 May
South Korea at the Crossroads: AI Disruption, Labor Revolt, and the Northern Fortress
The Weekly18 May
Vance's 'Late Great' Kirk Quip Exposes Fault Lines in Conservative Movement's Media-Opinion Complex
The Weekly17 May
Iran and France Hold Diplomatic Call as Nuclear Talks Enter Critical Phase
The Weekly17 May
Trump's Clock Is Ticking: What the Iran Ultimatum Actually Signals
The Weekly17 May
Trump's "Clock Is Ticking" Ultimatum to Iran and the Anatomy of a Diplomatic Collapse
The Weekly17 May
Sumo on the World Stage: Japan's Ancient Sport Draws a Global Audience
The Weekly17 May
Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Positions in Southern Lebanon as Cross-Border Exchanges Escalate
The Weekly17 May
Tehran Dismisses Poem Attribution to Revolutionary Leader as False
The Weekly17 May
Ukraine's Deep-Strike Drone Arsenal Targets the Black Sea Fleet
The Weekly17 May
China's AI Law and the Dual Logic of Techno-Regulatory Leadership
The Weekly17 May
Starmer's Moment of Truth: What the Resignation Rumours Tell Us About Labour's Fractured Consensus
The Weekly17 May
Bulgaria's Dara Wins Eurovision 2026: A First for Sofia, A Fracture for the West?
The Weekly16 May
Iran Aligns With Beijing's Multipolar Vision as Ghalibaf Declares a New World Order
The Weekly16 May
Six Dead After Gas Station Explosion Rocks Russian City of Pyatigorsk
The Weekly16 May
Day 78: Trump Signals Openness to Talks as Iran War Enters Diplomatic Phase
The Weekly09 May
Trump Revives Hormuz Flashpoint as Iran Talks Deadlock Drags Into Second Month
The Weekly08 May
The July 4 Ultimatums: How Trump Turned a National Holiday Into a Trade Deadline
The Weekly08 May
Oil Spill at Iran's Kharg Island Terminal Puzzles Analysts as Cause Remains Unknown
The Weekly08 May
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Open Their Skies: Project Freedom Returns and the High-Stakes Gamble for the Strait of Hormuz
The Weekly08 May
Betting on the White House: How Polymarket Became the Week's Real Power Broker
The Weekly08 May
Trump Calls Iran Strikes a "Love Tap" as Ceasefire Holds — for Now
The Weekly07 May
The Fracturing Consensus: How Two Flashpoints Reveal Washington's Receding Leverage
The Weekly07 May
Israeli Strikes Target Gaza Security Infrastructure as Ceasefire Talks Stutter
The Weekly07 May
Pashinyan's Break: Armenia's Quiet Divorce from Russia's Orbit
The Weekly07 May
Tehran's Hormuz Gambit: Iran Demands U.S. Naval Withdrawal Before Any Diplomatic Opening
The Weekly07 May
Israeli Airstrike on Beirut Breaks Ceasefire as IDF Claims Elimination of Hezbollah Commander
The Weekly07 May
Trump's Iran Diplomacy Is a Pressure Cooker With No Visible Release Valve
The Weekly07 May
Microsoft's AI Ambition Collides With Its Clean Energy Vow
The Weekly06 May
Zelensky Draws Line Under Victory Day Talks as Ukraine Prepares Mirror Response
The Weekly06 May
Trump's Iran Deal Ultimatum Collides With 'Skirmish' Framing as Netanyahu Watches Closely
The Weekly06 May
Iran Says It Shot Down an Enemy Drone Near the Strait of Hormuz
The Weekly06 May
China's Courts Are Already Writing the Rules for an AI Jobs Crisis the West Is Only Starting to Acknowledge
The Weekly06 May
Trump's China Visit, Taiwan, and the Iran Variable: A Geopolitical Primer
The Weekly06 May
The Checkmark and the Claim: Iran, X, and the Verification Paradox
The Weekly06 May
Trump Pumps Brakes on Project Freedom as Iran Diplomacy Resurfaces
The Weekly06 May
Trump Puts Strait of Hormuz Escort Mission on Pause as Iran Offers 14-Point Ceasefire Plan
The Weekly05 May
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: Military Strikes and a Diplomatic Pause That Tells Two Stories
The Weekly05 May
Cargo Ship Hit in Strait of Hormuz as Regional Tensions Simmer
The Weekly05 May
Two Months In, the Iran War Has Neither Stopped the Bomb Nor Drained the Red Sea
The Weekly05 May
Anthropic's Banking Pivot: AI Agents Enter the Compliance Layer
The Weekly05 May
Iranian Strikes on UAE Resorts Expose Fragile Link Between Gulf Instability and US Consumer Inflation
The Weekly05 May
Trump's Iran Rethink: Weapons for the People, 20 Years to Recover
The Weekly05 May
Water Returns to Iran's Central Province: The Revived Miqan Wetland
The Weekly05 May
Mexican Navy Helicopter Crash Tests the Limits of State-Media Sourcing
The Weekly04 May
Shooting Reported Near White House as Law Enforcement Responds to Incident
The Weekly04 May
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Gambit: Inside the White House's 60-Day Diplomatic Reckoning
The Weekly04 May
Ukraine's Conditional Ceasefire Gambit: A Mirror Response Without a Mirror
The Weekly04 May
Russia Announces Victory Day Ceasefire as Ukraine War Enters Fifth Year
The Weekly04 May
Israeli Airstrike Hits Southern Lebanon Village as Cross-Border Tensions Escalate
The Weekly04 May
South Korean Ship Attacked in Strait of Hormuz: What We Know
The Weekly04 May
Guns, Fuel, and Fire: How the Middle East's Military Build-Up Is Squeezing Civilian Energy Markets
The Weekly04 May
Iran's Diplomatic Counter-Offensive Targets Allied Rifts as Death Toll Rises
The Weekly04 May
Fragile Ceasefire and the Logic of Project Freedom: Inside the Hormuz Standoff
The Weekly04 May
Spirit Airlines' Collapse Marks the End of America's Budget Carrier Experiment
The Weekly03 May
Trump Rejects Iranian Proposal, Doubling Down on Maximum Pressure
The Weekly03 May
Moscow Hardens Its Victory Day Celebration Against a Threat Picture It Will Not Name
The Weekly03 May
The Secretary and the DJ: How One Day Exposed the Split Screen of American Diplomacy
The Weekly03 May
The Compressed Kill Chain: AI, Autonomy, and the New Logic of Military Strikes
The Weekly03 May
Markets Price a Quiet World. The Real World Isn't Listening.
The Weekly03 May
The Silence Tax: How Warsaw Plans to Force Every Polish Taxpayer to Fund Public Broadcasting
The Weekly03 May
Trump Skeptical of Iran's 14-Point Ceasefire Proposal as Nuclear Sticking Point Persists
The Weekly02 May
Trump's Iran Strike Warning Tests Fragile Ceasefire Architecture
The Weekly02 May
Spirit Airlines Collapses, Ending 34-Year Run as Budget Carrier
The Weekly02 May
India's 8th Pay Commission: What the Review Means for 48 Million Workers and a $4 Trillion Economy
The Weekly02 May
Spirit Airlines Files Into History as $500M Bailout Collapse Exposes Limits of Airline Rescue Politics
The Weekly27 Apr
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanon Amid Fragile Ceasefire
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
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 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 Weekly26 Apr
Mali's Defense Minister Killed in Attack on Residence: What We Know
The Weekly26 Apr
Trump's three-day Iran ultimatum exposes the fractured state of nuclear diplomacy
The Weekly26 Apr
Pakistan Lifts Islamabad Curfew as Iran-US Talks Stall Over Oil Sanctions Blockade
The Weekly26 Apr
Trump's Ukraine Gambit: Europe's €90B Pledge and the Question of American Staying Power
The Weekly26 Apr
Storm Kills Two in Ukraine, Injures Two More as Rescue Teams Deployed Across Thirteen Regions
The Weekly26 Apr
Khamenei's death puts Araghchi in the spotlight as Iran navigates succession and a regional war
The Weekly26 Apr
Tashkent's Cash Ban: Uzbekistan's Quiet War on the Shadow Economy
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
Secret Service Agent Shot at Trump Property, Suspect Detained
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 Weekly25 Apr
Mali's Junta Problem: Why the Bamako Offensive Exposes a Decade of Failed Security Architecture
The Weekly23 Apr
Khamenei Labels Enemy Media Operations a Direct Threat to Iranian National Unity
The Weekly23 Apr
Iranian Air Defenses Activated Over Tehran; No Confirmed Strike as IDF Denies Involvement
The Weekly23 Apr
Trump's Strait of Hormuz gambit and the entertainment spectacle that almost drowned it out
The Weekly23 Apr
Trump's 'shoot to kill' order on Hormuz mines: escalation or deterrence?
The Weekly23 Apr
34 Tankers, $4 Billion, and the Strait: How Iran Is Testing America's Red Lines
The Weekly23 Apr
U.S. Intercepts Stateless Tanker in Indian Ocean, Alleges Iranian Oil Link
The Weekly23 Apr
How Iran's Sporting Revival Mirrors Its Geopolitical Realignment
The Weekly23 Apr
Iran Tightens Its Grip on the Strait of Hormuz as Diplomatic Window Reopens
The Weekly23 Apr
Trump Sets Three-to-Five-Day Clock for Iran Deal as Questions Mount Over Tehran's Military Reach
The Weekly23 Apr
The Lights That Stay On: Moscow's Caribbean Lifeline and the Calculus of Cost
The Weekly23 Apr
US Pauses Weapons Shipments to Estonia, Iranian State Media Reports
The Weekly23 Apr
US Naval Blockade of Iran Enters Second Week as 31 vessels Diverted and Airspace Remains Unbreached
The Weekly23 Apr
Iran Alleges US Using UAE Territory for Attack Planning in Formal UN Complaint
The Weekly22 Apr
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Seized Tankers, Undersea Cables, and the Six-Month Window
The Weekly22 Apr
Navy Secretary Phelan Resigns Effective Immediately, Pentagon Confirms
The Weekly22 Apr
Deep-Strike Window: Ukraine Hits Occupied Melitopol Infrastructure as Long-Range Constraints Easing
The Weekly22 Apr
Hezbollah Claims Four Cross-Border Operations as Rescue Teams Search for Missing Lebanese Journalist
The Weekly22 Apr
Islamabad's Quiet Diplomacy: How Pakistan Is Carving a Mediation Lane Between Washington and Tehran
The Weekly22 Apr
Six Months to Clear the Strait: Pentagon's Sobering Assessment on Hormuz Demining
The Weekly22 Apr
Britain's Smoke-Free Generation: Bold Policy or Paternalist Overreach?
The Weekly22 Apr
Trump-World Financial Entanglements: Two Cracks in the Façade
The Weekly22 Apr
Lebanon seeks one-month truce extension as Washington hosts new ceasefire talks
The Weekly22 Apr
Pakistan's Ceasefire Diplomacy Forces Trump to Extend Iran Truce — For Now
The Weekly22 Apr
Justin Sun Sues Trump-Adjacent Crypto Project. The Real Story Is Who Left Holding the Bag
The Weekly22 Apr
IRGC Gunboat Fires on Container Ship Off Oman Coast in Escalation Warning
The Weekly22 Apr
New York's Prediction Market Crackdown Is a Fight Over Who Gets to Regulate Crypto
The Weekly22 Apr
The Aid Equation: PEPFAR's Departure, Iran's Ceasefire, and a New Transactional Order
The Weekly22 Apr
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Extension: Diplomatic Pause or Strategic Delay Before Strikes Resume?
The Weekly22 Apr
Anthropic's Mythos Launch Day Breach: What the Unauthorized Access Reveals About AI Security
The Weekly21 Apr
Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire as Oil Markets React to Fragile Diplomatic Window
The Weekly21 Apr
Iran Signals US Openness to Lifting Hormuz Blockade as Negotiations Loom
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
IDF Removes Soldiers From Combat After Sledgehammer Destruction of Jesus Statue in Lebanon
The Weekly21 Apr
Trump's Iran Ceasefire Ultimatum and the UAE Currency Gambit
The Weekly21 Apr
China's Coal Pivot and the Oil Ceasefire: Energy Security After the Iran War
The Weekly21 Apr
The Pattern the Market Already Knows: Trump, Bitcoin, and the Iran Signal
The Weekly21 Apr
The Onion Takes Infowars: Satire, Liquidation, and the Limits of Irony
The Weekly21 Apr
Tim Cook Departs: Apple Begins Its Most Consequential Transition in Two Decades
The Weekly21 Apr
Arbitrum Security Council Freezes KelpDAO Exploit Funds as LayerZero Vulnerability Takes Center Stage
The Weekly21 Apr
Amazon's $25 Billion Bet on Anthropic Reshapes the AI Power Map
The Weekly21 Apr
Apple's Succession Plan: John Ternus Takes the Reins as AI Reshapes the Tech Landscape
The Weekly21 Apr
Trump's Iran Calculus: Escalation, Negotiations, and the Fuel Price Trap
The Weekly20 Apr
Asia's Clean Energy Surge Is Redrawing the Map of Global Power
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Third Cabinet Departure: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid Misconduct Probe
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: The Naval Blockade, the Seized Ship, and the Deal That Hasn't Come
The Weekly20 Apr
Iran Nuclear Talks: Islamabad's Quiet Diplomacy and the Trump administration's 90-Day Clock
The Weekly20 Apr
The President's Victory Lap: What Trump's Truth Social Posts Reveal About War Communication
The Weekly20 Apr
Ceasefire, Drones, and a Million Returns: What the Lebanon Truce Reveals
The Weekly20 Apr
Iran's 'Final Punishment' Rhetoric Tests the Limits of Diplomatic Signal
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Ceasefire Deadline Puts Iran Nuclear Talks on a Knife-Edge
The Weekly20 Apr
Berri's Revelation Tests Lebanon's Quiet Ceasefire Calculus
The Weekly20 Apr
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's Axis of Resistance Declaration Tests Tehran's Messaging Calculus
The Weekly20 Apr
Ukraine Strikes Deep Inside Russia as Kharkiv Front Hardens
The Weekly20 Apr
Russia's Iran Gambit: What Peskov's 'Not a Mediator' Statement Actually Reveals
The Weekly20 Apr
Iran Declares Hormuz Control 'Legal' as US Blockade Strains Pakistan-Brokered Talks
The Weekly20 Apr
Stavropol, terrorism, and the grammar of blame
The Weekly20 Apr
Trump's Oval Office Spectacle and the Trading Patterns That Won't Stay in the Frame
The Weekly20 Apr
The Price of a Frozen Front: Ceasefire Terms, Grounded Flights, and the Fuel Bill
The Weekly20 Apr
Canada's Carney Turns the Page on Continental Complacency
The Weekly20 Apr
The $60 Bet: Bessent's Withholding Gambit and the Economics of Political Optics
The Weekly19 Apr
Treasury Secretary Bessent Calls Withholding Cut a 'Real Wage Increase' — But It's Just Timing, Not Money
The Weekly19 Apr
US-Iranian Forces Clash in Gulf Waters as Tensions Escalate
The Weekly19 Apr
The IDF's Bint Jbeil Withdrawal and a Viral Photo: What the Sources Show
The Weekly19 Apr
Iran's Diplomatic Rejection of Second-Round US Talks Deepens Nuclear Standoff
The Weekly19 Apr
Wall Street Wants to Wager on the Future — and That Should Worry You
The Weekly19 Apr
Bitcoin's Ceasefire Highs Are Fading — And the Reason Is the Real Story
The Weekly19 Apr
Trump Says Iran Commits to Opening Strait of Hormuz; Oil Prices Tumble as Deal Talks Advance
The Weekly19 Apr
Trump Cancels Vance Islamabad Trip Hours After Announcement, Citing Secret Service Timeline
The Weekly19 Apr
Trump Claims Iran Violated Ceasefire as Negotiations Spiral Into Cross-Border Threats
The Weekly19 Apr
Day 51: Hormuz Standoff Tests the Limits of Deterrence and Diplomacy
The Weekly19 Apr
Hood Ride to Prison: Ukraine's Mobilization Crackdown and the Anatomy of a Conscription Confrontation
The Weekly19 Apr
The Diplomacy of Loyalty: Trump, Israel, and the Costs of Unconditional Alignment
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
Iran's Hormuz Reversal and the Dollar-Micronarrative: Why Markets Missed the Geopolitical Ratchet
The Weekly19 Apr
The Strait Question: How Iran's Hormuz Gambit Exposed the Limits of US Economic Coercion
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 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 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 the Deterrence Ledger Rewrote Itself: Pyongyang's Test, Ghalibaf's F-35 Claim, and Moscow's European Warning
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
The Week in Financial Flows: Bitcoin ETFs, a Stablecoin FX Market, and Central Bankers War-Gaming Their Own Lehman
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 Week in Media Narratives: Hormuz, Kyiv, and the UNIFIL Soldier — A Ledger of Selective Outrage
The Weekly18 Apr
Hormuz Tensions Recede but Reveal Persistent Energy Vulnerability
The Weekly18 Apr
Qalibaf Declares Strategic Failure: Iran Resisted Regime Change and Venezuelaization, Parliament Speaker Asserts
The Weekly18 Apr
Iran's Qalibaf Declares '49 Days' of National Resilience: Square, Street, and Diplomacy as Unified Front
The Weekly18 Apr
Iran's Qalibaf and the Triadic State: Populist Sovereignty and the Collapsing Distinction Between Street and Diplomatic Arena
The Weekly18 Apr
The Hormuz Gambit: Iran, Washington, and the Battle for the World's Most Strategic Chokepoint
The Weekly18 Apr
Hormuz Reopened: Iran Closes Strategic Waterway, Reframes Energy Sovereignty Against US Blockade Claims
The Weekly18 Apr