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The way the Biscoff crumbles
The United States seeks access to the Red Sea via Eritrea after shunning the country for decades. / Responsible Statecraft With sovereignty being contested around the world, from Ukraine to Iran, “th...
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Robot mock
New satellite imagery shows Mexico City is sinking by nearly 10 inches a year, and it’s damaging critical infrastructure. / Associated Press For NASA to achieve its goal of 21 lunar landings in the n...
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Suite dreams
European leaders in tech, space, and defense are increasingly shifting long-term contracts away from the United States. / Carnegie Europe France’s Macron wants the EU to unleash its “bazooka” trade i...
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Psy of the times
When it comes to announcing policies that will be effective immediately or by a certain date, Trump has stuck the landing only a third of the time in his second term. / Wake Up to Politics The White ...
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Gala-venting
Israel and Hezbollah continue to war in Lebanon despite the nominal ceasefire. / Al Jazeera Why didn’t Iran’s oil infrastructure implode like Trump said? Because the country was prepared and had alre...
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Gyro dreams of sushi
Today marks the 60th day of Donald Trump’s war on Iran, though House Speaker Mike Johnson says we are not at war, actually, “so we’ll see how it plays out.” / NBC News The White House presse...
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Run the joules
Yesterday, the Supreme Court continued dismantling the Voting Rights Act—and with it Black voting power—and some states are now rushing to redraw their maps before November. / The Guardian S...
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Bound to be good
Famine looms in Somalia, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is making things worse. / Reuters Analysis suggests President Trump at this point doesn’t care about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, he s...
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Sending out an SOS
Before the war, Iran exported an average of two million barrels a day; now, it’s storing crude in improvised containers and trying to ship it by rail to China. / The Wall Street Journal [$] ...
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Cowl at the moon
Chicagoans are still dealing with the trauma from Operation Midway Blitz, where only 3% of detainees were the kinds of criminals Trump said they targeted. / The New York Times [$] “The world’s first ...
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The merch awakens
President Trump says the United States will destroy any vessel laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. / Al Jazeera Scholars say the US-Israel war on Iran is fated to be a frozen conflict: “an unresolv...
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Peel out
A new report finds “credible sexual harassment allegations against 162 sitting [US] state officials, in 424 incidents between 2013 and 2026.” / Mother Jones See also: The US Constitution says it’s Co...
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Tickle-down economics
Only four candidates are running to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations, as compared to 13 in 2016. / The Associated Press Hezbollah fires drones and rockets in retaliation for the Is...
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Permanent daylight
“In my view, Russia played the Americans again—played the president of the United States.” Ukraine has finally given up on Trump. / The Atlantic [$] Trump has long cultivated a belief that he’s “fuck...
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Hard of herring
Details on the rift between Iran’s political leaders and its newly empowered military hard-liners. / The Wall Street Journal [$] Iran vows retaliation after the United States seizes a cargo ship. Mea...
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Vapor tiger
Some Gulf and European leaders (who won’t go on-record) say a US-Iran peace deal will take about six months. / Bloomberg [$] A 10-day ceasefire takes effect between Israel and Hezbollah. / NPR A goo...
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The crust belt
Some immigrant taxpayers subject to deportation are choosing not to file this year—a trend that would mean a loss of $479 billion in tax revenue over the next decade. / The Washington Post [$] See al...
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Resting cyber face
European officials are assembling a “European NATO,” looking to supplement US military assets with their own. / The Wall Street Journal [$] With oil prices so high recently, “demand destruction” is starting to unfold. / NBC News Vice President JD Vance finds himself roundly mocked after a weekend of failures. / The Independent A
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Synthesize this
An interactive explainer of how, despite the US blockade, Iran has geography on its side in the Strait of Hormuz. / The Washington Post [$] Yesterday, two members of Congress—Rep. Eric Swalwell and R...
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Working for the weekend
Further escalating its war with Iran, the United States begins a military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. / Politico What makes Iran’s Lego-themed propaganda videos so effective? Because AI is trai...
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Sketch of the imagination
A survey finds consumer sentiment in the United States falling to the second-lowest level recorded in 70-plus years. / CNN At the same time, consumer prices are up 3.3% from a year ago, hotter than February’s gain of 2.4%. / PBS Why gas prices are still rising despite the
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Petrofied
The US says the ceasefire didn’t include Lebanon, but Iran says it did, a contention that could end the agreement before it even gets started. / The New York Times [$] Related: Did Israel attack Lebanon to spoil the ceasefire? / The Guardian The war with Iran may wreak havoc on markets
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Nice to meat you
Pakistan announces a two-week ceasefire between Iran, Israel, and the United States, saying it applies to Israel’s attacks in Lebanon. / The Wall Street Journal Netanyahu disagrees about the Lebanon ...
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Derring brew
Iran is escalating its attacks on Gulf countries, and the strikes are “increasingly precise and lethal, and able to avoid interception.” / Semafor Visualizing the scale of the war shows the extent of...
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Pout of the question
President Trump threatens to wreck Iran’s power plants if its leaders don’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday. / The Wall Street Journal [$] Iran’s former vice president says the countr...
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Digital nutrition
Yesterday was the wrap for this year’s Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, which means we need to take a nap. See you Monday. After a winter of low snow, more than half of the Western Unit...
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Fowl play
Donald Trump threatens to target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including the country’s desalination plants. / The Associated Press Iran’s internet blackout rolls into its third week, adding an additi...
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A lump of reluctance
The Pentagon is said to be preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran—which in turn threatens peace talks. / The Washington Post [$], USA Today Also reportedly on the table: somehow seizing Ira...
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And love you so much
It’s not great to rely on unnamed White House officials, but one alleges that Trump is “just bored and wants to move on” from Iran. / MS NOW Hamilton Nolan: “It is a moral imperative for members of t...
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Meta averse
Iran rejects the White House’s plan to pause Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East. / Associated Press Meanwhile, in Tehran’s halls of power, “there is total confusion, total obscurity, and it’s real...
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Strike a pose
When government officials profit from inside information about national security decisions— that’s effectively a form of treason. / Paul Krugman Among the truths that endure from the Mueller Report: ...
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Sole searching
New York City’s LaGuardia Airport reopens after a deadly collision between a landing plane and an emergency vehicle. / Gothamist The United States’ aviation network, once a marvel of safety, appears ...
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Where there’s smoke
A round-up of President Trump’s mixed messages from the weekend regarding his war on Iran. / Foreign Exchanges Detailed maps show how the war has widened. / The Wall Street Journal [$] The Pentagon ...
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Advantage: therapist
An explainer for how China might end the Iran war on the basis of its 2023 detente. / Forever Wars The United States intensifies the battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. / The Wall Street Journal [...
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Quid pro bros
The Defense Secretary says the end of the Iran war “will be at the president's choosing.” / The Wall Street Journal The Director of National Intelligence says only Trump knows which threats are immin...
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Train and simple
Researchers in Sweden say the United States is no longer a democracy. “Our data on the USA goes back to 1789.” / The Guardian Speaking of data, researchers say the current White House and other gover...
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Ctrl freak
A summary of where things stand after three weeks of war in Iran. / Wake Up to Politics Europe rejects Donald Trump’s pleas for help in securing the Strait of Hormuz. / Politico In the United States...
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Ear for it
Iran’s hacking of medical-equipment firm Stryker is likely the largest wartime cyberattack on the US in history. / The Wall Street Journal [$] For Iranians, suddenly being forced into war means wonde...
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A girlfriend indeed
More than three million people have been displaced in Iran since Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their war. / The Hill By several measures, Russia is the war’s biggest winner thus far. /...
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Deep in bet
An investigation says the deadly missile strike of an Iranian elementary school was the result of a targeting mistake by the United States. / The New York Times [$] In his first public statement as I...
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Rolling in dough
Iran starts laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz and vows to block oil exports from the Gulf. / CNN, AL-Monitor At the same time, Tehran is exporting more oil than before—headed for China—while ignor...
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about 2 months ago
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Joggernaut
A technical note: Our headlines newsletter may arrive a bit late this month while we produce the Tournament of Books. By April, we promise, we’ll be right as rain. The Pentagon and the president pub...
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A spirit of open-endedness
Mojtaba Khamenei is picked to succeed his father as Iran’s supreme leader, reinforcing Tehran’s security establishment. / Time A classified intelligence report concludes that not even a large-scale a...
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Waiting for the check marks
Regarding Iran, anonymous government sources say the White House has no “real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath.” / The Intercept Israel continues to wreak havoc in Gaza and the West Bank...
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Transference in the afternoon
Donald Trump’s war with Iran expands beyond “the geography that has long defined Iranian power projection.” / The Diplomat According to military reporters, the lack of information from the White Hous...
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Tunnel or nothing
Persian Gulf states are running out of air-defense interceptors and may have less than a week’s worth remaining. / The Wall Street Journal [$] A round-up of some of the fake war videos swirling throu...
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A friend in knead?
According to anonymous sources, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman encouraged the White House to attack Iran. / The Washington Post [$] The US aerial assault includes replicas of Iranian-made one...
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