Geopolitics & international affairs
This is a follow-up to this morning’s article on Iran’s funeral plans for Khamenei (iran-khamenei-funeral-plans-july-2026). What follows is the next chapter in that story. The funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei began in earnest on Saturday, with millions of mourners pouring into the streets of Tehran on the first day of a six-day […]
Ukraine has carried out drone strikes against oil and military facilities near St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, expanding the reach of its long-range campaign deeper into Russian territory than ever before. The attack disrupted internet service and flights in the area, according to local officials, as Kyiv continues to demonstrate that no part of Russia […]
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including nine convicted of violating the Clean Air Act and a former business partner of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The pardons highlight a pattern in which the justice system treats the wealthy and well-connected very differently from everyone else. Trump announced the pardons on his Truth Social […]
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including nine convicted of violating the Clean Air Act and a former business partner of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The pardons highlight a pattern in which the justice system treats the wealthy and well-connected very differently from everyone else. Trump announced the pardons on his Truth Social […]
After a devastating war and a famine that drew international condemnation, leading Israeli politicians are openly discussing something that was once considered unthinkable: building Jewish settlements in Gaza. The question is no longer whether someone is raising the idea, but whether the political conditions have shifted enough to make it possible. The Al Jazeera report […]
After a devastating war and a famine that drew international condemnation, leading Israeli politicians are openly discussing something that was once considered unthinkable: building Jewish settlements in Gaza. The question is no longer whether someone is raising the idea, but whether the political conditions have shifted enough to make it possible. The Al Jazeera report […]
The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most important oil chokepoint, and Iran still holds the keys. Despite months of US military pressure and negotiations that have produced a preliminary ceasefire agreement, Tehran has not given up its most valuable piece of leverage: the ability to control who passes through the narrow waterway and at […]
France’s aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is returning to its home port of Toulon, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday, citing the “favorable evolution” of the security situation after the preliminary agreement between Iran and the United States to cease hostilities. The decision marks a visible milestone in the winding down of the most intense […]
For months, the Kremlin projected confidence. Russian forces were advancing in eastern Ukraine. Western aid was slowing. The narrative from Moscow was one of inevitable victory, with state television celebrating each territorial gain. But that tone is shifting, and the reason is not what happens on the front lines. It is what keeps happening deep […]
Pope Leo XIV used his first major address on American soil to praise the United States’ history of welcoming immigrants, a message that stood in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Speaking in Philadelphia on the eve of the nation’s 250th anniversary, the pontiff urged Americans to live up to the ideals […]
