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Sonar is our live analytical column focused on following the movement of power as it unfolds. It tracks current events, shifts, and emerging fractures in the international order as they happen, without reducing them to headlines.

Entries are concise, interpretive, and attentive to direction rather than detail, offering analysis of where power is moving and why.

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  • Art of the Side Deal: The Kushner Method

    Art of the Side Deal: The Kushner Method

    In 2021, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump swam ashore on Sazan, a rocky island off the…

    October 23, 2026
  • The Kremlin’s Best Friends in Washington

    The Kremlin’s Best Friends in Washington

    Last week, Donald Trump announced an agreement with Vladimir Putin to import millions of tons of…

    October 16, 2026
  • How the MOU Was Destined to Fail

    How the MOU Was Destined to Fail

    Hostilities between Washington and Tehran have resumed in full, ending the fragile calm that followed the…

    July 10, 2026
  • Keir Starmer Resigns After Squandering a Historic Majority

    Keir Starmer Resigns After Squandering a Historic Majority

    Keir Starmer had the lot. A historic majority and an exhausted electorate handing him the keys…

    June 23, 2026
  • PIX, Trump, and the Bolsonaro Implosion

    PIX, Trump, and the Bolsonaro Implosion

    When Brazil’s Central Bank launched PIX in 2020, it had no intention of picking a fight…

    June 5, 2026
  • China, the Iran War, and the Art of Waiting

    China, the Iran War, and the Art of Waiting

    When American missiles struck Tehran on February 28th, the world scrambled for a response. China’s came…

    April 24, 2026
  • Orbán Lost. The Problem Didn’t.

    Orbán Lost. The Problem Didn’t.

    Viktor Orbán conceded defeat after sixteen years in power, and somewhere in Washington and Moscow, two…

    April 22, 2026
  • The Perfect Fifteen Minutes in the Insider’s Republic

    The Perfect Fifteen Minutes in the Insider’s Republic

    The Financial Times reported on Monday morning that roughly 6,200 oil futures contracts changed hands in…

    March 26, 2026
  • Trump is the Perfect FIFA Ambassador, and that is the Problem

    Trump is the Perfect FIFA Ambassador, and that is the Problem

    There is a moment, every four years, when international football forces you to look away from…

    March 19, 2026
  • The Incoherence of Trump’s War on Iran

    The Incoherence of Trump’s War on Iran

    There is a particular kind of political disorder that reveals itself not in the chaos of…

    March 11, 2026
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