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001 foreign-policy Afghanistan Strikes Pakistan: A Ceasefire That Was Already Fiction → Jun 19 002 opinion The Cognitive Outsourcing Problem: AI Chatbots and the Erosion of Epistemic Autonomy → Jun 19 003 economy Big Tech's Energy Paradox: AI Datacenters Are Building the Clean Grid They're Simultaneously Destroying → Jun 19 004 elections Andy Burnham Returns to Westminster: What the Makerfield Result Actually Measures → Jun 19 005 economy Bank of England Holds Rates at 3.75% as Middle East Conflict Keeps Inflation in the Pipeline → Jun 19 006 economy Japan at 1%: The Bank of Japan's Rate Decision and the Price of Someone Else's War → Jun 19 007 foreign-policy Barnier's Brexit Offer: The UK Could Rejoin the EU on Its Old Terms — If It Wants To → Jun 19 008 elections Burnham Takes Makerfield: What a By-Election Result Tells Us About Labour's Structural Exposure → Jun 19 009 elections Burnham's Makerfield Landslide Puts Starmer on a Clock → Jun 19 010 elections Burnham Wins Makerfield. The Labour Leadership Clock Starts Now. → Jun 19 011 elections After Makerfield: What a Burnham Government Actually Looks Like → Jun 19 012 elections Burnham Wins Makerfield. Now the Clock Starts on Starmer. → Jun 19 013 elections Burnham Wins Makerfield. Starmer's Clock Starts Now. → Jun 19 014 elections California's Billionaire Tax Reaches the Ballot. The Real Fight Has Not Yet Begun. → Jun 19 015 economy Cuba Opens the Economy: What the Party Just Admitted → Jun 19 016 foreign-policy Cuba's Communist Leadership Signals Reform — China and Vietnam as Templates for a Collapsing Economy → Jun 19 017 legislation EU Parliament Passes Mass Deportation Law as MEPs Chant 'Send Them Back' → Jun 19 018 analysis The EU's Ukraine Statement Is Not a Strategy → Jun 19 019 opinion FIFA's Aramco Deal and the Architecture of Sports Laundering → Jun 19 020 economy Gas Below $4: What the Iran Deal Actually Costs → Jun 19 021 foreign-policy Hegseth Calls NATO a 'Paper Tiger' and Orders a Six-Month Reckoning → Jun 19 022 analysis Hegseth's NATO Ultimatum: Pay Up or Lose the Troops → Jun 19 023 legislation Hegseth's Vaccine Rollback Has a Body Count: 160 Sick at Lackland Air Force Base → Jun 19 024 foreign-policy The Hormuz Gambit: How Iran Extracted a Ceasefire, a Fee Schedule, and a 60-Day Clock → Jun 19 025 foreign-policy Hormuz Cannot Reopen: 80 Mines and the Architecture of a Chokepoint Crisis → Jun 19 026 legislation India Bans Telegram: How an Exam Scandal Became a Censorship Framework → Jun 19 027 foreign-policy The Iran Deal Is Already Breaking: Israeli Strikes, Hormuz Mines, and the Architecture of Collapse → Jun 19 028 foreign-policy Iran's FIFA Complaint Exposes the Political Architecture of the 2026 World Cup → Jun 19 029 economy Iran's Rial Recovered. Its Grocery Prices Did Not. → Jun 19 030 commentary Iran's Supreme Leader Calls Trump's Nuclear Deal a Sign of Desperation as Naval Blockade Ends → Jun 19 031 economy The Iran War's Price Tag: How a Three-Month Conflict Is Reshaping the Global Economy → Jun 19 032 commentary Israel Severs Contact with EU's Top Diplomat Over 'Apartheid' Designation → Jun 19 033 analysis KPMG's Surveillance State: When the Auditor Becomes the Subject → Jun 19 034 foreign-policy Lebanon Bleeds After the Deal: Israeli Strikes Kill 18 as Ceasefire Ink Dries → Jun 19 035 economy The $1.3 Million Bill for Independence: Trump's War on the Federal Reserve Built a Legal and Security Crisis for Lisa Cook → Jun 19 036 elections Makerfield's Verdict: How a By-Election Reshapes Britain's Political Order → Jun 19 037 elections The Makerfield Test: Andy Burnham's Westminster Bid and the Arithmetic of Labour Survival → Jun 19 038 commentary The Defense That Lasted One Day: What Mangione's Legal Reversal Reveals → Jun 19 039 analysis The Met Found Guilty: How a Black Teenager's Wrongful Arrest Became a Race Discrimination Verdict → Jun 19 040 analysis Pulte at the DNI: How Trump Blocked Senate Confirmation to Install a Loyalist at the Top of U.S. Intelligence → Jun 19 041 commentary Serbia's School Massacre Retrial: When the State Prosecutes the Family It Failed to Monitor → Jun 19 042 elections Starmer Will Not Step Aside: The Labour Leadership Crisis Hardens → Jun 19 043 opinion Dozens of Nations Warn of Atrocities in Sudan's el-Obeid as RSF and SAF Escalate → Jun 19 044 legislation The Supreme Court Dismantles Another Pillar of Federal Gun Restriction → Jun 19 045 legislation The Supreme Court's Unanimous Gun Ruling Signals a New Constitutional Floor — Not a Ceiling → Jun 19 046 analysis The Switzerland Collapse: How Israel's Lebanon Strikes Killed the Iran Deal's First Test → Jun 19 047 legislation Trump Redirected $352 Million in Secret Service Funds to Build a Ballroom → Jun 19 048 foreign-policy Trump's Iran Gamble: A Deal Structured to Fail on Someone Else's Timeline → Jun 19 049 commentary The MOU That Ends Nothing: Trump's Iran Ceasefire Is a Conditional Pause, Not a Peace → Jun 19 050 commentary Trump Signs Iran Deal at Versailles: Concessions Dressed as Victory → Jun 19 051 analysis The Trump-Iran Agreement: What Was Signed, What It Costs, and What Can Kill It → Jun 19 052 commentary Trump's North Korea Reset: A Third Attempt at a Deal That Has Never Worked → Jun 19 053 legislation The OMB's Science Rule Is Not a Budget Measure. It Is a Control Mechanism. → Jun 19 054 economy The Iran War's Bill Lands in London: UK Borrowing Hits £23.3bn in May → Jun 19 055 elections The Young Male Voter Myth: British Election Data Dismantles a Convenient Narrative → Jun 19 056 foreign-policy Washington Cuts Allies Off from American AI: The Export Ban That Is Rewriting the Alliance Map → Jun 19 057 commentary Three Dead, No Apology: How the Hormuz Killings Broke the US-India Relationship → Jun 19 058 opinion The U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding: What the Text Actually Commits, and What It Leaves Unresolved → Jun 19 059 analysis Diplomacy Suspended: US-Iran Talks Collapse as DHS Prepares to Arm Local Police with Facial Recognition → Jun 19 060 analysis The Collapse Before the Table: US-Iran Talks Cancelled Hours Before They Began → Jun 19 061 analysis The War on Iran Produced Thousands of Dead. The True Count May Never Exist. → Jun 19 062 analysis 211 Dead in US Military Boat Strikes: The Narcoterrorism Doctrine Has No Legal Ceiling → Jun 19 063 commentary 211 Dead: The Quiet Arithmetic of America's Maritime Drug War → Jun 19 064 commentary 211 Dead: The U.S. Military's Undeclared War on Narco Boats → Jun 19 065 legislation The Social Media Age Restriction Debate Crosses the Atlantic — and Reveals a Deeper Legislative Failure → Jun 19 066 foreign-policy Vance to Israel: Trump Is Your Only Ally. Act Like It. → Jun 19 067 analysis Vance's 'You Can't Kill Your Way Out' Doctrine Is a Victory Claim Dressed as Restraint → Jun 19 068 elections Zimbabwe's Bill to Abolish Presidential Elections Is Not a Reform. It Is a Seizure. → Jun 19 069 elections Zimbabwe's Parliament Votes to Erase Presidential Elections. This Is What Democratic Backsliding Looks Like in Real Time. → Jun 19 070 legislation Zimbabwe's Parliament Votes to Extend Presidential Terms — A Constitutional Rewrite by Ruling Majority → Jun 19 071 foreign-policy More Than 1,000 Palestinians Killed During Gaza's Active Ceasefire Period → Jun 18 072 opinion The Reparations Architecture: What the Accra Summit Is Actually Building → Jun 18 073 foreign-policy CENTCOM Lifts Iran Naval Blockade as US Forces Hold Position in the Gulf → Jun 18 074 elections Colombia's Presidential Runoff Is Not an Election. It's a Referendum on What the State Is For. → Jun 18 075 elections Washington D.C.'s Next Mayor Is a Democratic Socialist. Trump Has Already Threatened to Intervene. → Jun 18 076 commentary Eduardo Bolsonaro Convicted: The Anatomy of a Judicial Siege → Jun 18 077 opinion The Filton 4 and the Criminalization of Dissent in Britain → Jun 18 078 foreign-policy NATO's Controlled Demolition: Hegseth's Review Is a Restructuring, Not a Reform → Jun 18 079 economy Iran's Hormuz Toll Is a Structural Shift in Global Energy Economics → Jun 18 080 economy Iran's Hormuz Toll: How a Peace Deal Became a Chokepoint Tax → Jun 18 081 opinion Japan's Rearmament Is Not a Choice — It's a Structural Admission → Jun 18 082 commentary The Smyrtos Precedent Is Already Dissolving → Jun 18 083 analysis The Temple Mount Status Quo Is Collapsing — and the Institutions That Maintained It Have No Answer → Jun 18 084 analysis Uganda's Military Charges the Defense Lawyer in Its Own Political Treason Case → Jun 18 085 analysis Britain's First China Spy Convictions Expose a Decade of Institutional Failure → Jun 18 086 foreign-policy The Hormuz Deal: What a US-Iran Ceasefire Extension Actually Stabilizes → Jun 18 087 opinion The $300 Billion Gap: What the US-Iran Deal Actually Says → Jun 18 088 analysis The War That Empowered Its Target: What the US-Iran Deal Reveals About American Strategy → Jun 18 089 analysis The Trap Was the Policy → Jun 16 090 analysis The Guardrail Assumption → Jun 4