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Who won the US-Iran war?
Just 90 minutes before President Trump’s 8pm Tuesday deadline expired, news broke of an immediate two-week ceasefire partly based on Iran’s 10-point plan, which Trump argues is a “workable basis on which to negotiate” via talks that’ll now continue in Pakistan. There’s plenty of mutual yelling around the details, but the only four explicitly-and-mutually confirmed […]
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How the Pope found himself in Trump’s crosshairs
WASHINGTON — You may have noticed Pope Leo is having his moment in the sun this week — both literally in the Algeria-Cameroon-and-Angola sense, but also figuratively in the Trump Tirade™ sense. Since Italian journalists are on strike, we’re in the pulpit to fill you in. First, the cast of characters: While the Vatican is […]
Three economy stories you can’t miss
While everyone was watching the war, three economic plot twists just dropped, starting with… Xi Jinping has channelled his inner Dua Lipa to announce some pretty stringent ‘new rules’ — but rather than warn about toxic exes, Xi’s big new supply chain regime seemingly makes it illegal to break up with China. Officially published last […]
Three high stakes elections in Hungary, Peru and Djibouti
It’s April, which means about three years have passed since January 1st 2026. And because we may or may not be binge-rewatching F.R.I.E.N.D.S eps to cope, we’ve used the F.R.I.E.N.D.S episodic style to label April’s three big elections, starting with… Hungary (pop. 10 million) might not ordinarily dominate your front pages, but this election is […]
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