Explainers
UAE Quits OPEC Effective May 1 — The Biggest Rupture in Global Oil Markets in Decades
The Iran war has now claimed its most consequential institutional casualty: OPEC itself. The United Arab Emirates — one of the cartel's three most...
UN Security Council Emergency Session on Hormuz — Guterres Warns of “Worst Supply Chain Crisis Since COVID”
The Strait of Hormuz crisis reached the highest level of international institutional attention on Tuesday when the UN Security Council convened an emergency session...
Trump Reviews Iran’s Hormuz-First Peace Plan in Situation Room — But Is “Unlikely to Accept It”
Day 60 of the Iran war produced the most significant White House deliberation on the conflict since the original...
China Is Winning the Iran War Without Firing a Shot — And It Knows It
Fifty-eight days into the Iran war, with three US carrier strike groups in the region, a naval blockade running,...
Putin Backs Iran at St. Petersburg Meeting — Araghchi Says “US Has Achieved None of Its War Goals”
The most important diplomatic meeting of Monday produced Russia's most explicit pro-Iran statement of the entire 58-day war —...
Shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Trump Rushed Out, Suspect Cole Allen Charged
The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner — the event that brings together the president, the press, and Washington's political...
Iran Resumes Flights After 50 Days — What Ordinary Iranians Are Living Through Right Now
While the US and Iran trade escalatory naval orders and mine-laying operations in the Strait of Hormuz, something quieter...
USS George H.W. Bush Arrives — Three US Aircraft Carriers Are Now in the Middle East
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush completed one of the longest carrier deployments in recent US Navy history...