Category: Politics
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Byron Donalds won Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary as several states voted on Tuesday. What a primary actually decides, why the voting rules change the result, and why primary outcomes are a poor guide to November.
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On 27 September Swiss voters decide whether to write a strict definition of neutrality into the constitution, barring sanctions and military alliances without a UN mandate. The government opposes it, one party backs it — and Russia has publicly endorsed a yes.
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Sweden elects all 349 members of the Riksdag on 13 September, along with 21 regional and 290 municipal councils. How the system works, who the main contenders are, what the polls suggest — and why the polls are not the result.
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A new study of the 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election finds voters shifted right on tax, immigration and climate measures between 2021 and 2025 — even though Labour won the most seats. What an election survey can and cannot tell you.
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Hundreds of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this weekend. Moroccan authorities fended them off this time — raising the same question as before about how much these events are decided at the fence.
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Newly released Epstein files expose years of disturbing correspondence with one of Dubai’s most powerful businessmen, alongside efforts to gain access to senior members of the UAE royal establishment. The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files has drawn fresh scrutiny to his connections in the United Arab Emirates, revealing a disturbing combination of sexually explicit…
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Erdoğan says Egypt could join the Türkiye–Saudi–Pakistan defence pact. Cairo hasn’t confirmed anything — but the suggestion alone marks how far relations have travelled since 2013.
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Trump has brushed off reports of dire conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed over 250 days with no port call in 200. What’s on the record, and what neither side has evidenced.
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A Spanish NATO jet shot down a drone over Romania overnight — the second spillover into alliance territory in two days. What Article 5 actually requires, and why the ambiguity is the danger.
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Modi’s thirteenth consecutive Red Fort address set out seven priority areas, pushed semiconductors and energy security, and included one line about “intellectual Naxals” that will dominate the domestic argument.