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85 Reports
Why Australia No Longer Works: Healthcare, Housing and the Broken Pipeline
Inside Australia's slow-burn crisis: collapsing hospital wait times, the world's least affordable housing, and a school system buckling under strain.
Why Do French Governments Keep Collapsing?
France keeps building governments that seem destined to fall. Behind the confidence votes is a debt crisis, a split parliament, and a weakened president.
Why MAGA Is Obsessed With Hungary: Inside the Orban Blueprint
How Viktor Orban turned Hungary into a laboratory for the American right, and why his model of managed democracy fascinates and alarms in equal measure.
Why Mexico's Cartels Are So Powerful: Four Presidencies, One Failing State Equation
How four Mexican presidencies and radically different strategies all failed to break the cartels, and why the violence keeps escalating.
Why Vladimir Putin Is Still Surprisingly Popular After 25 Years
How Putin built the most durable authoritarian popularity in modern history from economic recovery, nationalist pride, and identity, and why it is now cracking.
Why Young Voters Are Turning Conservative Across the West
Trump won young men by 16 points and far-right parties are surging among under-30s in Europe. Inside the economic and cultural forces driving the shift.
Why Young People Are Getting Really Conservative: The Forces Behind the Shift
Young voters across the US and Europe are moving right. Economics, culture, and a meaning vacuum explain a generational realignment few saw coming.
Zohran Mamdani Wins New York: What His Victory Means for America
A democratic socialist and Muslim immigrant won New York City's mayoralty. Here is what Zohran Mamdani's victory means for the city and the country.
How To Undo Viktor Orban's Political Machine
Hungary's ruling system was built piece by piece over more than a decade. Untangling it would require the same patience, in reverse.
How Trade Became a Weapon
Tariffs, sanctions, export controls, and chokepoint dependencies have turned the world's commercial plumbing into a contested theater.
Is Gavin Newsom Inevitable?
California's governor has spent years building the apparatus of a national candidacy. The harder question is whether that apparatus can survive contact with a real primary.
The Iranian Regime is Badly Wounded. Will It Be Enough?
Tehran has lost proxies, deterrent credibility, and strategic patience. Loss of capacity is not the same as loss of control.