Tehran is sinking neutral cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz to choke oil flows and swing the US midterm elections, proving that commercial transit cannot survive a shooting war.
By Tom Beckwith ·
By targeting tankers like the MT On Peace, Iran has forced a costly shipping shuttle system that masks a deeper, unsustainable instability in global oil flows.
By Tom Beckwith ·
An Omani co-pilot's axe attack on a Tel Aviv flight exposes dangerous aviation blind spots as Israel's leaders trade blame before an election.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The market is currently hallucinating. According to CNBC, oil prices fell approximately 2% on Friday, with Brent crude sliding to $103.70 and WTI briefly dipping below $100.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
I spent my twenties flying C-130s and my thirties balancing a ledger for 140 families.
By Grant Colby ·
When Badr Albusaidi, the Omani Foreign Minister, announced via X and official channels that the regional meeting in Salalah had been postponed "in the interests of consensus," he…
By Sophie Naimi ·
The Strait of Hormuz is not a line on a map for a Treasury Secretary to dismiss as a “worthless piece of water.” It is a place where people work, where sailors sweat, and where,…
By Alma Cordero ·
When the price of diesel hits six dollars a gallon, the people in the Situation Room don’t feel it.
By Maya Ellison ·
When I was a charge nurse in the ER, we had a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
When high-stakes geopolitics boils down to a single threat—a boast about bombing an ally—it usually means the speaker has stopped reading the spec sheet entirely.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
There are moments in global news cycles—moments that smell less of geopolitical maneuvering and more of sheer, unadulterated incompetence—that force you to pause your reading, put…
By Dana Whitfield ·
The sheer audacity of it is breathtaking.
By Maya Ellison ·
The perennial struggle over who controls the passage through vital chokepoints is not a geopolitical problem; it is a failure of institutional design.
By Klaus Berger ·
There are certain types of news that feel less like reporting and more like a slow, deliberate tightening of a noose around sensible life.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The moment any great power treats a critical artery like the Strait of Hormuz as a commodity to be negotiated—rather than a shared passage for humanity’s commerce—the alarm bells ring.
By Maya Ellison ·