Five Brutal Truths the Iran War Exposed About Everyone
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched nearly 900 strikes on Iran in 12 hours. The Supreme Leader was dead by...
The Morning After: What the Middle East Looks Like Now
Right after the announcement, Kuwait got hit by 28 Iranian drone attacks. The UAE faced 35. Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline, a critical piece...
The 90-Minute Miracle: How Pakistan Brokered the Impossible
Nobody had Pakistan on their bingo card for this one.
With just under ninety minutes left on President Donald Trump's deadline to destroy what he...
Sixteen Years, Four Days Left: Can Hungary Finally Break Free?
JD Vance landed in Budapest on Tuesday to address a campaign rally for Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday, April 12....
The New Non-Alignment
When Leverage Replaced Loyalty
There is a diplomatic category error that shapes almost all Western analysis of the Global South, and it goes something like...
The Securitization of Everything
The Vocabulary Shift That Changed the Rules
Something happened to the word "security" over the past decade, and the consequences are still playing out. It...
The Strongman as a Brand
The Act and the Reality
There is a performance happening in capitals across the world, and most audiences are only watching one half of it....
Power for Sale: The Middle East as a Geopolitical Marketplace
The Frame Shift That Changes Everything
The language we reach for when describing the Middle East has always been the language of conflict. Proxy wars....
The Talks That Aren’t Happening: Strategic Ambiguity in the US-Iran Standoff
President Trump insists “productive” negotiations with Iran are happening. Iran’s top officials repeatedly deny it. One of them is lying, or both are, or...
A Crisis of Governance, Not Goals: SDSN on Europe’s Sustainability Retreat
When the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) released its 2026 Europe Sustainable Development Report last month, headlines focused on stalled progress and rising inequality....