When a 28-meter rocket called Spectrum tore through the Arctic air at the Andøya spaceport in Norway on September 5, 2026, the celebratory cheers in Bavaria probably sounded like victory.
By Alma Cordero ·
When a forested landmass the size of a football field vanishes from a satellite image only to reappear twenty miles away, the internet calls it a mystery.
By Maya Ellison ·
My father used to say that you don’t start boarding up the windows when the sky is blue; you do it because you’ve seen the barometer drop and you know the wind is coming.
By Ruth Behrens ·
When a superpower decides to rename a piece of its neighbor’s geography, it isn't an exercise in cartography; it is an act of aggression.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
When you’ve spent your life balancing a ledger or flying a C-130, you learn one immutable truth: hope is not a strategy. You don't assume the runway is clear; you verify it.
By Grant Colby ·
When a trade dispute reaches the point where national sovereignty is subject to social media mockery, it ceases to be an economic negotiation and becomes, quite simply, theatre.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
By Klaus Berger ·
You learn early in life that nothing is ever free. You can’t just walk into the co-op and ask for a bushel of corn without paying for it—and if you don't have the cash, you don't get the grain.
By Ruth Behrens ·
By Sophie Naimi ·
The moment you realize that a powerful man can sign an executive order to change the name of a shared lake—to rename Lake Ontario, for God's sake, to ‘Lake America’—you understand…
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The moment you realize that your daily life—the toilet paper in your bathroom, the cheese on your charcuterie board—is now a geopolitical bargaining chip, you know where power truly resides.
By Imani Sutton ·
The language used by Donald Trump and his allies is designed to sound grand, like some kind of economic shield protecting the American worker.
By Josie Calloway ·
It is always instructive, if disheartening, to watch how quickly what was once considered an act of commerce devolves into something resembling geopolitical bullying.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The moment Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, accepts an invitation to address the European Parliament—and attend President von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech—it is not…
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The sheer absurdity of it is breathtaking.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The rhetoric emanating from the borderlands—the talk of "tariffs" and "America First"—is not merely a dispute over steel or dairy; it is an exhibition of profound economic myopia.
By Sophie Naimi ·