Politics
BUSINESS
Beyond the Green High Ground: The EU’s New Realism
When green ideals meet raw reality, something has to give. Europe’s Indonesia deal shows us what that is.
EXCLUSIVE
Internal Dissent: Are there Disagreements within the Iranian Regime?
After war with Israel and U.S. strikes, Iran’s regime faces a reckoning: damaged nuclear sites, elite deaths, and reformist resurgence.
LIFESTYLE
One Rule for Some: NBA Should Include All (Non-)Arab Stakeholders
The NBA built its brand on diversity, so why does its European expansion read like an exclusive club with questionable membership rules?
BUSINESS
From ASEAN Aspirations to Political Crisis: ECOWAS Turns 50
Fifty years of ECOWAS, and the biggest achievement might be teaching the Sahel countries exactly how not to run a regional economic bloc.
EUROPE
Results, Not Ideology: Sikh Community Could Shift to Reform
Labour's ten Sikh MPs may have won their seats, but their constituents are already shopping for new political allegiances.
Popular
FCAS: Bilateral Deals Break Expensive Collective Defence
Nine years of industrial warfare have now ended Europe's biggest defence dream, as bilateral deals quietly rewrite the continent's security architecture.
Sovereign AI Fund Picks Blair’s Daughter-in-Law to Lead It
Britain's £500 million Sovereign AI fund has chosen Tony Blair's daughter-in-law to lead it, and the appointment says as much about how power circulates in British tech as it does about the fund's ambitions.
Foreign Capital Flows into Damascus Despite Insecurity
As European trade ties return and energy giants sign deals, Damascus car bombs ask whether stability can coexist with transition.
Cannes 79 Turns Politics Into Atmosphere
The 79th Cannes Film Festival has arrived carrying less confidence in art's neutrality and more pressure to explain what cinema is for in a harder world.
Eurovision’s Israel Problem Reaches a Crisis Point
A New York Times investigation has exposed the full scale of Israel's multi-year campaign to influence the Eurovision vote, pushing the contest into one of the deepest institutional crises in its 70-year history.
