No good options
Briefing: Two Talibans vs. Pakistan. An Ebola strain with no vaccine. + What are Pakistan’s ruling generals getting from a war they can’t win, anyway?
A 10-day peace
The weekend despatch: Tanker crews back to dodging fire in Hormuz, days after it officially reopens. Bronze Age correspondence, X-rayed through the envelope. + How does FIFA end up with its World Cup anthems?
An order from no one
Briefing: An unofficial deadline to empty South Africa of migrants. The U.S. Supreme Court’s clearance to deport 350,000 Haitians and Syrians. + Has Iran ended America’s dominance in economic warfare?
‘Shells within shells’
Feature: Has Iran ended America’s dominance in economic warfare? Nicholas Mulder on why the Americans can still squeeze their allies but not their rivals.
The only suspect
Briefing: A knife-edge election in Colombia, and a defeated president who says Israel hacked it. Communist Cuba opens its economy to foreign capital, and the Americans move to scare it off. + What’s extreme heat do to you?
The art of not losing
The weekend despatch: A war to disarm Iran ends with a pledge to build it up again. Nature, it turns out, is still selecting. + What’s Rock Action Records?
A treaty in Versailles
Briefing: Months of war meant to disarm Iran end with hundreds of billions pledged to rebuild it. Ukraine’s drones torch the fuel Russia is using to fight it. + How’s the green transition going?
Incumbents
Feature: How’s the green transition going? Thea Riofrancos on the politics the technology can’t solve.
No return address
Briefing: Mystery drones are killing civilians in Sudan’s civil war. A 60-day U.S.-Iran ceasefire isn’t addressing nuclear weapons. + What do drones do to a war?
Players
Extra: Gulf royals have moved billions into global football. Now what?
