Trump's midterm gamble handed the Red Sea to Tehran
Donald Trump believes the world is a series of real estate deals where the right amount of pressure on a ledger can force a tenant to vacate.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
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Saudi Arabia's pipeline shut, but the poor pay the price
When the price of diesel hits six dollars a gallon at the pump, the people in the boardrooms in Riyadh and Washington call it "market volatility." But for the driver hauling…
By Alma Cordero ·
Houthis seized the Bab al-Mandab and the global economy's keys
The world is treating the current collapse in Yemen as a humanitarian tragedy—which it is—but that is a category error.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Houthis seize Perim Island and hold global trade hostage
The capture of Perim Island is not a tactical skirmish; it is a systemic failure of deterrence.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Houthis seize Perim Island and turn the Red Sea into a toll road
The world is once again learning that the distance between a stable global economy and a chaotic one is exactly the width of a few rocky islands.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Houthis choke the Bab al-Mandeb and the poor pay the ransom
When I was a charge nurse in the ER, we had a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
Houthis seize the Bab al-Mandab, leaving the US with no choice
In the ER, we have a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
Saudi Arabia shut its pipeline, proving we are hostages
If you want to know how a conflict in the Riyadh and Madinah regions of Saudi Arabia affects a Tuesday morning in Newell, Iowa, you don’t look at a map; you look at the pump.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Trump's inaction lets Houthis choke the Red Sea and our pumps
When I was balancing the books for my father’s hardware store back in Amarillo, we lived and died by the ledger.
By Grant Colby ·
Houthis seize Bab al-Mandab to break the Saudi will
The global North has a particular kind of amnesia when it comes to the waters of the South.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Houthis won the war of the map, leaving the U.S. and Israel behind
The map of the Red Sea has been rewritten, and the United States and Israel are reading the old version.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Houthis seize Bab al-Mandeb, turning a global artery into a hostage
The global economy just took a hit to the solar plexus, and the blow came from a rocky volcanic island in the middle of the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
By Grant Colby ·
Trump's inaction lets Houthis turn Bab el-Mandeb into a toll road
There is a quiet, terrifying math to what is happening in the Red Sea, and it is a math that ends with the erosion of the stability we have spent decades, and trillions of dollars, trying to build.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Houthis seize Mocha and put a leash on a global artery
When the national average for diesel clears six dollars a gallon, it stops being a "geopolitical development" and starts being a tax on every working person in this country.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Houthis seize Mocha and render Yemen's government a fiction
The map of the Red Sea has just been rewritten, and the ink is the blood of 20,000 displaced civilians.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Houthis seize Mocha to hold the global economy hostage
When you want to understand a war, don’t look at the map in a briefing room; look at what the people on the ground have lost. In the port of Mocha, that loss looks like 14,000 destroyed motorcycles.
By Alma Cordero ·