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Four things have popped up in the past 48 hours that are worth a look. First, we now have enough preliminary data to say some general things about the virus and the news is good: the virus is [...]

It isn’t every day you can say a missile strike means things are calming down, but hey, it’s the Middle East. The rules are different.

by Peter Zeihan and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui  This piece is part of the Cutting Room Files, portions of the upcoming Disunited Nations text that were cut for length. Disunited [...]

by Peter Zeihan and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui This piece is part of the Cutting Room Files, portions of the upcoming Disunited Nations text that were cut for length. Disunited [...]

This day was always going to happen. On October 7, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a partial withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria. Soon after, Turkish forces began moving south [...]

Bonds are sliding toward negative territory across the developed world.  Among the largest industrialized economies, only the United States is offering over 2% yields on 30-year bonds. And [...]

by Peter Zeihan and Melissa Taylor President Donald Trump has a knack for making Prime Ministers and Presidents hope to remain unnoticed. It’s a stunning ability given that national leaders [...]

I’m going to do something I loathe and quote something I read on Twitter June 24. In a pair of posts U.S. President Donald Trump asserted: Diction and statistical issues aside, these tweets [...]

The New York Times dropped a fun piece last week asserting a coalition of like-minded national security and intelligence professionals are neck-deep in an offensive cyber operation [...]

I woke up Monday morning to find a bit of a debate on my Twitter feed over assessments of my ability (or lack thereof) to pontificate on trends in the energy sector. Specifically, Art Berman [...]