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The Lever and the Exit: Why a Democratic Congress Arrives Just as Israel’s Aid Leaves
For four decades, one of the most dependable sentences in American foreign policy was that support for Israel is bipartisan. The 3 November midterms...
Indispensable, Not Aligned: How Turkey Turned Western Retreat into Leverage
Two Shields Over One Country
Late on Wednesday, Turkey's parliament began ratifying a treaty that commits NATO's second-largest army to the defence of Saudi Arabia....
Who Pays Now? Antalya and the Quiet Unravelling of Climate Diplomacy’s 1992 Divide
On 31 October, the UN biodiversity summit in Yerevan closed with a fragile deal that, for the first time, invites large emerging economies such...
The Guarantor Is the Ceasefire: What a Frozen Front Line Actually Buys Ukraine
“Right Now, We Have to Freeze”
On 22 October, Volodymyr Zelensky said the sentence Kyiv had avoided for four years. “Yes, right now, we have...
The Northern Sea Route Is a Hedge, Not a Highway
On 9 September, the container ship Dubai Tower berthed at Teesport in northeast England with a hold full of Chinese batteries and energy-storage equipment,...
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,...
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...
Israel’s Kingmakers: Why a Government Propped Up by Arab Parties Would Change the West Bank, Not the Iran War
The 14 Seats Everyone Pretends Not to Count
Going into Tuesday's vote, the final polls put Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc at about 50 of the Knesset's...