China’s New Arctic Gamble Has a Russian Catch
China's new Arctic route cuts the journey from Ningbo to Europe in half. What the headlines aren't saying is that every mile of it...
The Invisible Crisis: How Four Wars Built One Food Emergency
What is happening to global food prices right now is not four separate stories. It is one supply shock being assembled in four places...
A Muslim Trifecta: The New Challenge to Washington’s Middle East
In the city where Islam began, three leaders sat down last Friday and signed something the region has not seen before. Saudi Arabia's Mohammed...
NATO’s Escalation Problem: The New Psychology of Russian Provocation
Every time Russia crosses a line NATO said mattered and NATO's response looks functionally identical to its response to the previous violation, the alliance...
Hamas’s Disarmament Dare: The New Limits of American Dealmaking
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The US-brokered deal for Hamas to disarm and Israeli forces to withdraw from Gaza is less an agreement than a diplomatic dare: each...
Washington’s Brazil Problem: The New Geopolitics of Self-DefeatÂ
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The United States has spent eighteen months applying economic, judicial, and now electoral pressure on Latin America's largest democracy, and at each step...
India’s Cockroach Movement: The New Politics of Generational Rage
In May 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant stood before a courtroom and described unemployed youth activists as cockroaches and parasites. He almost...
What does the US-Saudi Nuclear Deal mean for Middle East Security
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The US-Saudi nuclear deal is not so much an energy deal as it is Washington's most significant admission yet that the non-proliferation architecture...
Europe’s China Dilemma: The New Geopolitics of Free Trade
Over the past five years, the European Union has quietly built the largest network of modern free trade agreements in the world. New Zealand,...
Can Pakistan Match India’s Most Dangerous New Nuclear Capability?
India has quietly crossed a threshold that Pakistan has no answer to —for the first time in the history of South Asian nuclear competition,...