U.S.
BUSINESS
TikTok Acquisition: Governance Versus Everyday Life
TikTok’s outage exposed how deeply the feed shapes daily life, as US acquisition debates raise questions of control.
BUSINESS
Greenland: How Financial Markets Broke a Potential Trade War
Danish academics dumped their American debt, over Greenland, proving a modest financial exit can force a presidential retreat faster than any traditional diplomatic envoy.
EUROPE
Washington Challenges the Sovereignty of Smaller Partners
A superpower’s casual rhetoric regarding its neighbours hints at a new global order where small-state sovereignty acts as the currency for military security.
WORLD
Iranian Heritage Under Threat From All Sides
As civil unrest spreads across Iranian cities in early January 2026 and President Trump renews warnings about military options, the country's 28 UNESCO World Heritage sites sit vulnerable to dangers from multiple directions.
BUSINESS
American Strategy Grants Chevron Privileged Global Access
While blockades turn away rival tankers in the Caribbean, Chevron vessels sail with immunity, anchored by a century of presence and unique American leverage.
Popular
Mistral Leads Europe and Reveals Its Limits
Mistral has become Europe's clearest AI champion, but its rise also shows how far the continent still is from matching the American frontier on scale, compute, and control.
Hantavirus Panic Revives Pandemic Lies
The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has done something the virus itself cannot: it has reactivated the full Covid-era misinformation machine, and the results arrived faster this time.
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.
