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August 16, 2026

The Crossing of a Quiet Line

It arrived in the early hours: a low-altitude drone crossing into Romanian airspace, moving through the sky near Galați. Radar locked on, authorization was given, and a NATO fighter jet — a
August 14, 2026

India’s Structural Edge Over China

For four decades, “the China story” was the only story worth telling about Asian growth. A command economy poured concrete, wired factories, and moved hundreds of millions of people from farms to

The Scapegoating of Indian Americans

When policy debate becomes ethnic hostility, something has gone badly wrong. A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute should disturb anyone who cares about the direction of American political culture.
March 12, 2026

The Pakistan-Afghanistan Spiral

South Asia is slipping toward a second front in a wider regional war, and Washington is looking the other way. Over the past week, Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded their most ferocious
March 6, 2026

America’s Everywhere War

The striking thing about the new U.S. military “front” in Ecuador is not that Washington cares about narcotics, every administration says it does, but that the Trump administration is increasingly treating disparate
March 4, 2026

EU’s Middle East Dodge: Can It Last?

Europe is trying to cordon itself off from a widening Middle East war, relying on humanitarian cheques, naval patrols and diplomatic silence, but the geography of energy, trade and migration means this
March 3, 2026
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