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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…

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…

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…

ANALYSIS: Only $26B of $154B Is Obligated as Hegseth Seeks Another Defense Bill
Analysis· No. 5331

ANALYSIS: Only $26B of $154B Is Obligated as Hegseth Seeks Another Defense Bill

ANALYSIS: $320 Million at Stake as 21 States Void HUD’s 2026 Homelessness Rules
Analysis· No. 5328

ANALYSIS: $320 Million at Stake as 21 States Void HUD’s 2026 Homelessness Rules

DECODING: Ragsdale Is Gone, and DOJ Oversight Has No Named Successor
Analysis· No. 5327

DECODING: Ragsdale Is Gone, and DOJ Oversight Has No Named Successor

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