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ANALYSIS: Marcos Talks Drilling With Beijing While His Fishermen Are Kept Off a $3 Trillion Sea
Analysis· No. 5351

ANALYSIS: Marcos Talks Drilling With Beijing While His Fishermen Are Kept Off a $3 Trillion Sea

That is what moves through the South China Sea every year. Gulf oil, Taiwanese chips, Brazilian soy, the containers that end up in our…

ANALYSIS: Taiwan Puts NT$1,122.5 Billion Into Defence, Over 3% of GDP — While Beijing Calls It a Charade
Analysis· No. 5350

ANALYSIS: Taiwan Puts NT$1,122.5 Billion Into Defence, Over 3% of GDP — While Beijing Calls It a Charade

Hold that number for a moment, because it marks the crossing of a threshold no one on the island has ever crossed before. For…

COLUMN: Europe Moved 8.5 Billion Euros in a Month — Ukraine Is Waiting Under the Missiles With 1% in Stock
Column· No. 5348

COLUMN: Europe Moved 8.5 Billion Euros in a Month — Ukraine Is Waiting Under the Missiles With 1% in Stock

That is what the European Commission says it has disbursed for Ukraine's defence since late June. €8.5 billion in a single month, drawn from…

ANALYSIS: 313 Votes, a 20th Extension — Ukraine Keeps Waiting to Vote for a Peace Moscow Refuses
Analysis· No. 5346

ANALYSIS: 313 Votes, a 20th Extension — Ukraine Keeps Waiting to Vote for a Peace Moscow Refuses

313 votes to approve the presidential decree extending martial law by 90 days — in force at 5:30 a.m. on August 2, running until…

ANALYSIS: 800 drones over Russia in one night — the sanction that flies has replaced the one still waiting
Analysis· No. 5343

ANALYSIS: 800 drones over Russia in one night — the sanction that flies has replaced the one still waiting

More than eight hundred drones, in a single night, August 14 to 15. The number does not come from Kyiv — it comes from…

COLUMN: The $5.6 million Trump lost for good — nine justices, not one dissent, and the Carroll case closed
Column· No. 5336

COLUMN: The $5.6 million Trump lost for good — nine justices, not one dissent, and the Carroll case closed

On an order list posted one Monday morning in August, buried among dozens of cases nobody will ever read, the Supreme Court of the…

ANALYSIS: 37 to 36 — Trump loses the economy, the one ground he never lost, three months before the vote
Analysis· No. 5335

ANALYSIS: 37 to 36 — Trump loses the economy, the one ground he never lost, three months before the vote

One single percentage point, between the two parties, on the question that makes and unmakes American presidencies.

ANALYSIS: Trump promised Iran peace in 60 days, but the deadline expired and he threatens to bomb Oman
Analysis· No. 5333

ANALYSIS: Trump promised Iran peace in 60 days, but the deadline expired and he threatens to bomb Oman

Sixty days to turn a war into a peace. That was the promise of the memorandum signed on June 17 at the Palace of…

COLUMN: Trump cuts Seoul's shield while 18,000 soldiers rehearse their own survival
Column· No. 5332

COLUMN: Trump cuts Seoul's shield while 18,000 soldiers rehearse their own survival

Eighteen thousand South Korean soldiers walked into exercise territory on Monday morning, right on schedule, the way they have every August for years. Ulchi…

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