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Art of the Side Deal: The Kushner Method
In 2021, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump swam ashore on Sazan, a rocky island off the…
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The Kremlin’s Best Friends in Washington
Last week, Donald Trump announced an agreement with Vladimir Putin to import millions of tons of…
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How the MOU Was Destined to Fail
Hostilities between Washington and Tehran have resumed in full, ending the fragile calm that followed the…
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Keir Starmer Resigns After Squandering a Historic Majority
Keir Starmer had the lot. A historic majority and an exhausted electorate handing him the keys…
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PIX, Trump, and the Bolsonaro Implosion
When Brazil’s Central Bank launched PIX in 2020, it had no intention of picking a fight…
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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…
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Orbán Lost. The Problem Didn’t.
Viktor Orbán conceded defeat after sixteen years in power, and somewhere in Washington and Moscow, two…
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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…
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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…
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The Incoherence of Trump’s War on Iran
There is a particular kind of political disorder that reveals itself not in the chaos of…

