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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
What would Richard Nixon have thought about Donald Trump?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 9 May 2026 The ghost of Richard Nixon hangs heavily over modern American conservatism. […]
Electricity prices for internally displaced persons in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 8 May 2026 The cost of electricity in Ukraine, at first glance, appears stable. […]
The new Saudi-Emirati rivalry
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 8 May 2026 The contemporary geopolitics of the Arabian Peninsula are often misunderstood in […]
Training the GRU in contemporary Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 8 May 2026 In the Soviet imagination the spy was once a romantic figure. […]
Russia’s wartime nationalisations
By Matthew Parish Thursday 7 May 2026 The decision of a Russian court to seize the controlling stake of the […]
Ukraine’s and Russia’s rival ceasefires
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 6 May 2026 Russia’s and Ukraine’s rival unilateral ceasefires in advance of the 9 […]
Echoes of the Gulag in modern Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 6 May 2026 The moral landscape described by The Gulag Archipelago was never solely […]
Why is Vienna so full of spies?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 6 May 2026 Vienna has long cultivated the image of a city of music, […]
Confusion and distress in the Strait of Hormuz
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 6 May 2026 The reports emerging from the Strait of Hormuz in early May […]
Should Pope Leo XIV excommunicate JD Vance?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 6 May 2026 The suggestion that a Pope might excommunicate JD Vance would, at […]
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