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

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

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