MARCH 11. 2026
Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.
Pretoria’s awkward dance between Washington and Tehran.
A year before presidential elections, the National Rally has a chance of capturing Marseille, a historic hub of immigration.
A U. S. military “targeting error” triggered the killing of at least 175 at a school in Iran, the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s war.
A better future for Palestine depends on psychological recovery.
In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial
In choosing Khamenei’s son, the regime has imposed exactly what many Iranians feared.
The rational calculus, for the moment, is that death to America can wait.
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system, ” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
From Venezuela to Gaza, the selective application of international law by powerful states and their critics alike is draining the post-1945 order of its last reserves of legitimacy.
MARCH 10. 2026
Exaggerate the threat and underestimate the consequences.
An emergency military spending request to continue the Iran strikes may soon be sent to U. S lawmakers.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.
Trump has warned that doing so will only escalate the U. S. military’s war effort.
Around 250 State Department employees could assist with efforts.
Diplomatic messaging suggests Beijing’s potential for mediation in the war.
Beijing is as concerned about Gulf partners as Tehran.
After threatening war for decades, the Israeli leader saw his window of opportunity closing.
Fuel economy rules have reduced U. S. dependence on oil. Trump ripped them up — and then sent gas prices through the roof.