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EDITORIAL: Grandma Has $669 Left, and They're Still Telling Her to Tighten Her Belt
The other day I was on the road with my wife and my mother-in-law. Traffic was crawling. And we drove past the encampments.
EDITORIAL: The West Must Choose Now or Fade Within a Decade
There comes a moment in the life of a civilization when diagnosis is no longer enough. The figures are on the table. The official…
ANALYSIS: The Thucydides Trap and the 2027–2030 Window Between China and the West
Across five centuries of modern history, Graham Allison and his team at Harvard’s Belfer Center counted sixteen cases in which a rising power challenged…
COMMENTARY: What the China–U.S. Parity Numbers Are Really Telling Us
There is one sentence in the Congressional Research Service’s 2025 update on Chinese naval modernization that ought to have reorganized the entire Western strategic…
NARRATIVE: Dnipro, the train 866 platform, the alert that sounds and the Russian drone that leaves 14 dead
Around 11 a.m., people are waiting on a platform at Dnipro’s railway station. They are waiting for their train. A Russian drone strikes. The…
ANALYSIS: Moscow counts 613 drones and answers that the war must continue, while Trump holds Kyiv back
Six hundred thirteen. That is the number of drones launched at Moscow in a single night, if its mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, is to be…
EXPLAINER: Israel, 53 seats for Netanyahu, 61 needed, and 19 Arab seats almost everyone refuses
Fifty-three seats. In the partial count, Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc comes first. Governing takes 61. The Knesset has 120 seats. A majority starts at 61.…
EDITORIAL: The Netherlands reaches for the chequebook while Europe fights over Putin’s phone
The Netherlands pays. Europe fights over the telephone receiver. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanks The Hague for €500 million in military aid. The sum…
PROFILE: Jesse Adams asked how he could help, a Russian drone struck his vehicle near Kramatorsk
Jesse Adams was evacuating animals. The vehicle was loaded. A drone attacked it. The windshield was hit. It was near Kramatorsk. It was Sunday,…