The Iran war is being narrowly framed as a matter of global security.  Yet, it should be also seen as a market-share event in the context of a declining hydrocarbon system.

The hardest truth about the Iran war is not that “someone is winning.” It is that multiple actors are benefiting from different parts of the same crisis.

The conflict affects the redistr...

In early 1776, John Adams wrote that there was already “so much Rascality, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Atheism, in all states, and especially in the most commercial” that he doubted whether there was “public Virtue enough to support a Republic.” 

Adams warned that the form of government “gives the decisive color to the manners of the peopl...

Southeast Asia is important. But today it is being hit hard by the Iran War, which is having an adverse impact on the region’s economic development, and likely pushing it further into the arms of China.

The Southeast Asian powerhouse

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia — Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singa...

For quite a while, it looked almost like a shoo-in that JD Vance would become the Republican Party’s 2028 presidential candidate.

There has even been speculation that he might have to take over the office if, given increasing signs of...

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