Why UK Energy Deals Are Set to Grow Despite High Taxes
Tax benefits and high energy prices are expected to lead to more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Britain's North Sea oil and gas sector....
Russia and Ukraine Evacuate Oleshky: What We Know
Residents of the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began evacuating on Friday, marking the first joint humanitarian operation between Russia and Ukraine...
Contested Midterms? Congress Gets the Final Say
Some races in the US midterm elections may take weeks to resolve due to recounts and court challenges. The Senate and House of Representatives...
Serbia’s Leaderless Winners: Picking a Prime Minister Is the Easy Part
Two Answers in Two Days
Forty-eight hours after the Student List won about 140 of the National Assembly's 250 seats, two of its own accounts...
Jadar’s Reckoning: Brussels Wants Serbia’s Lithium. Serbia’s New Majority Was Built to Stop It
A Farmer's Bill Meets a Brussels List
Zlatko Kokanović has spent nearly seven years campaigning against a lithium mine in his village of Gornje Nedeljice,...
Midterm Ballot Measures 2026: Transgender Rights, Billionaire Tax & More
In the upcoming US midterm elections on November 3, voters in over three dozen states will decide on around 150 ballot measures covering various...
Airlines Drop Fuel Hedges as Iran War Drags On, Warn on Fares
With jet fuel prices roughly double their pre-Iran war levels, airlines are becoming less willing to secure future fuel costs through hedging, leading to...
The Patron Penalty: Why Foreign Endorsements Now Cost Votes — and Where They Still Pay
Two Patrons, One Sunday
On 25 October, two candidates who had campaigned with the open approval of a great power lost on the same evening....
The Oleshky Test: Why Ukraine’s Only Durable Deals Have Been the Small Ones
Two Ceasefires, Eleven Days Apart
On 12 October, Donald Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking each other's energy infrastructure. There...
The Shenzhen Auction: What a Trump–Xi–Putin Summit Would Cost the Allies Who Aren’t Invited
"First Comes November, Then Comes December"
On Sunday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow, Beijing and Washington had agreed "in principle" to a leaders' meeting...