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INVESTIGATION: Taiwan Turns Its Back on Beijing — What the Polls Really Say
Every year since 1992, the National Chengchi University in Taipei publishes its survey on the identity and political preferences of Taiwanese citizens. It is…
DECODING: Germany and Its Defense — A Giant Still Learning to Walk
It took the courage of a deputy minister to say what diplomats had been avoiding for months. Nils Schmid, parliamentary state secretary at the…
NARRATIVE: In Arizona's Food Lines, Those the Big Beautiful Bill Left Hungry
It is a Tuesday morning in Tucson, Arizona. In the hallways of a community food bank, a woman waits with her three children. Her…
EDITORIAL: Europe's Heatwave and Iran's Fossils — The West Trapped Between Fire and Oil
On June 25, 2026, as 101 million Europeans suffocated under temperatures exceeding 35°C, supertankers were cautiously resuming their route through the Strait of Hormuz…
OPINION: Roman vs JWST — Two Telescopes, Two Visions, One Reason to Look at the Stars
On August 30, 2026, a Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying one of the…
COLUMN: The Fed and ECB in Tightening Mode — The West Absorbs the Financial Cost of Its Conflicts
On June 11, 2026, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% — its first hike…
COMMENTARY: The Moldovan-European Summit of June 22 — A Small Nation Refusing to Bend Under Russia's Shadow
When Moldovan President Maia Sandu arrived at the Europa Building in Brussels on June 22, 2026 for the second EU-Moldova summit, the context was…
DECODING: Green Credits in the Big Beautiful Bill — How Trump Is Dismantling Biden's IRA
Since President Donald Trump called the clean energy tax credits included in the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill a "giant SCAM"…
ESSAY: Nipah, Shigella, Mpox — Why Kerala Is the World's Epicenter of Emerging Zoonoses
In June 2026, Kerala — one of India's most educated, best-served medically and most prosperous states — found itself simultaneously grappling with two distinct…