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Governance

Coverage of national security laws, sovereignty debates, political systems, and institutional frameworks that shape state behavior.

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

As 79% of enterprises adopt AI agents, the consequential shifts are not in productivity metrics but in organizational connective tissue—informal networks, tacit knowledge, and accountability structures that never appeared on workflow diagrams.

What Breaks First as the Sahel's Security Collapse Spreads to Coastal West Africa?

What Breaks First as the Sahel's Security Collapse Spreads to Coastal West Africa?

The crisis spreading from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger will not arrive at the coast as an invasion. It will come as school absences, shifting market inventories, and the quiet death of institutional legitimacy. Understanding the sequence reveals which interventions might still work—and which...

When the Clocks Stop: The Hidden Fragility of Global Timing Infrastructure

When the Clocks Stop: The Hidden Fragility of Global Timing Infrastructure

The War Nobody Watches: Why Sudan's Genocide Remains Invisible to Western Powers

The War Nobody Watches: Why Sudan's Genocide Remains Invisible to Western Powers

Sudan controls critical Red Sea access and Africa's third-largest gold reserves. Its civil war has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. The US has declared genocide. Yet Western powers treat it as background noise—a structural failure with strategic consequences.

The Signals That Drowned Themselves

The Signals That Drowned Themselves

When Templates Trump Threats: Australia's Security Blind Spot

When Templates Trump Threats: Australia's Security Blind Spot

The Bondi Beach attack exposed a structural flaw in Australia's counter-terrorism architecture. When threat reality contradicts institutional templates, the system optimizes for legibility over security—with consequences that extend far beyond a single incident.

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research

The Regulatory Chimera: How Cannabis Rescheduling Will Transform Pharmaceutical Research

The move from Schedule I to Schedule III promises to unleash cannabis research, but pharmaceutical companies face a deeper challenge: a plant that resists the very methods the industry uses to prove medicines work.

The Six-Character Skeleton Key

The Six-Character Skeleton Key

A booking code designed in the 1960s still guards the travel identities of billions. The Amadeus vulnerability exposed what the aviation industry has long avoided admitting: its reservation systems were built for a world without hackers, and patching cannot fix architectural assumptions.

Half-Legal No More? What Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Will and Won't Change

Half-Legal No More? What Federal Marijuana Rescheduling Will and Won't Change

The DEA's proposed move of marijuana to Schedule III promises tax relief worth billions but leaves banking access, capital markets, and interstate commerce in legal limbo. The gap between expectation and reality will define the industry's next chapter.