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Analysis· No. 921

ANALYSIS: Trump Sabotages His Own Side — Housing Sacrificed on the Altar of Electoral ID

The stage was set. A podium had been installed in the corridors of the Capitol, chairs arranged, a table bearing the presidential seal awaiting…

Open letter· No. 920

OPEN LETTER: To the European Commission — WhatsApp does not belong to Meta alone

Commissioner, on June 9, 2026, you made a decision that few institutions in the world would have dared to make. You ordered Meta Platforms…

Essay· No. 919

ESSAY: Ukraine at Eurosatory 2026 — from survival to military innovation power

At the Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition center, between June 15 and 19, 2026, Ukraine did not simply attend the world's largest defense trade show. It…

Essay· No. 917

ESSAY: London Climate Action Week — the UN between fossil fuels, AI and the Iran crisis

When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the London Climate Action Week on June 23, 2026, he spoke beneath a heat wave threatening to…

Analysis· No. 915

DECODING: AI as a weapon of state — Trump redraws the frontiers of exportable knowledge

At 5:21 PM on Friday, June 12, 2026, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The contents…

Analysis· No. 914

ANALYSIS: June 2026 European Council — the EU at 27 searches for direction on Ukraine, China and budget

On June 18 and 19, 2026, the twenty-seven leaders of the European Union gathered in Brussels for a remarkably dense European Council. On the…

Analysis· No. 911

FACT-CHECK: Did Trump really win peace with Iran? Five claims verified

On June 22, 2026, from the White House press briefing room, Donald Trump declared that he had "concluded the greatest nuclear disarmament deal in…

Analysis· No. 910

ANALYSIS: Inflation at 3.2% in the eurozone — the war in Iran showed up on your heating bill

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel struck Iran. Four months later, the effect of that military decision has lodged itself in…

Analysis· No. 908

DECODING: The IAEA demands access to Iran — what point 8 of the MOU actually means

In June 2026, the world learned that Iran and the United States had signed an agreement — the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding — that…

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