Analysis
Pieces
DECODING: House kicks the shutdown can to December 4 and calls it a plan
On July 21, 2026, the House of Representatives voted 220 to 205 to extend federal funding until December 4 , a bill its authors…
ANALYSIS: Trump Asks the Supreme Court to Erase an $83.3 Million Verdict
Donald Trump's lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to throw out an $83.3 million defamation verdict awarded to E. Jean Carroll , according to…
FACT CHECK: 33%, the Lowest Supreme Court Approval Gallup Has Ever Measured
Thirty-three percent. That is the approval rating of the U.S. Supreme Court measured by Gallup in a poll published July 28, 2026, a record…
DECODING: Five Votes Beat Four, and Lisa Cook Keeps Her Fed Seat
Five votes against four. That is the margin by which the U.S. Supreme Court kept Lisa Cook in her seat as a governor of…
ANALYSIS: Trump asks the Supreme Court to validate his mail-voting limits
The Trump administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on Monday, July 27, 2026 , asking it to enforce Executive Order 14399…
DECODING: OPEC+ opens the taps as the Hormuz crisis changes shape
Seven OPEC+ countries — Saudi Arabia , Russia , Iraq , Kuwait , Kazakhstan , Algeria and Oman — approved a production increase of…
ANALYSIS: The US Navy piles into the Gulf as France pulls its carrier home
CENTCOM confirmed, on July 21 , 2026, the simultaneous deployment of three US aircraft carriers — the USS Abraham Lincoln , the USS Gerald…
DECODING: In Lebanon, strikes continue and the truce becomes a useful fiction
An ambulance hit in Nabatieh on July 23, 2026 , two medical staff members wounded, a health minister calling it "a flagrant violation of…
ANALYSIS: Israel approves an international stabilization force for Gaza
Two hundred soldiers, two countries, a legal framework approved on July 26, 2026 : that, in its concrete dimensions, is the first step of…