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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....
Is the Nuclear Test Ban Collapsing? US, China and Russia in 2026
Thirty years after the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty opened for signature, the most consequential recent event in the life of the global testing moratorium produced...
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...
The Bering Strait Tunnel: From Intercontinental Link to a Governance Ecosystem
The proposal to construct a railway and cargo tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, connecting Russia’s Chukotka region with Alaska, recovers an old ambition to...
The OSCE Survived 2026 by Shrinking. Europe May Regret the Price.
Europe’s only security forum that still includes Russia has escaped financial paralysis, but only by becoming smaller, and its next leadership deadlock shows that...
Emptiness and Politics: America’s Futile Faith in Elections
“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason...
Europe Has Quietly Changed What It Asks of Turkey
Before dawn on 14 October, Turkish police entered the Istanbul headquarters of Halk TV, the country’s most-watched news channel and one of the few...
Trading the Border for the Ministries: Europe’s Quiet Exit From Armenia’s Strategic Terrain
On 19 February 2027, the mandate of the European Union Mission in Armenia expires. The date has attracted little attention outside Yerevan and Baku,...
Owning the Weapon Is No Longer Enough: Starlink and the New Military Sovereignty
One Hundred Miles an Hour
On the night of 14 October, Ukraine's military satellite link stopped working above 100 miles an hour. Ground units using...
2026 US Midterm Elections Explained: Key Dates, Battleground Races and What’s at Stake
Early voting has been ongoing for weeks ahead of the midterm elections on November 3, 2026, when voters in the US will choose members...