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Governance

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

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.

The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling

The Quiet Rebellion: What ACM's Open Access Shift Reveals About Academic Publishing's Unraveling

The Association for Computing Machinery will make all publications freely accessible by 2026. The decision exposes how concentrated market power created its own opposition—and how the economics of scholarly communication are being rewritten by the institutions that once funded their own...

The Amber of American Strategy: What the 2025 NDAA Reveals About American Strategy

The Amber of American Strategy: What the 2025 NDAA Reveals About American Strategy

The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act was shaped by Biden but will be implemented by Trump. Its $895 billion framework reveals what American strategic culture has decided to preserve regardless of who holds power—and what remains dangerously unresolved.

The Apprentice Paradox: Why Tech Leaders Refuse to Replace Junior Developers

The Apprentice Paradox: Why Tech Leaders Refuse to Replace Junior Developers

Tech leaders are resisting AI replacement of junior developers despite proven automation capabilities. The reason reveals a structural truth about how organisations actually produce knowledge—and why eliminating entry-level roles would destroy the pipeline that creates senior talent.

The Architecture of Exclusion: How Travel Bans Are Reshaping Global Mobility

The Architecture of Exclusion: How Travel Bans Are Reshaping Global Mobility

The United States has imposed its most expansive travel restrictions since 1952, affecting 19 countries with potential expansion to 32. The diplomatic and economic consequences extend far beyond counterterrorism—they are reordering who moves, where, and under what conditions.

Licensed to Kill: Australia's Firearms Paradox After Bondi

Licensed to Kill: Australia's Firearms Paradox After Bondi

The December 2025 Bondi Beach attack killed sixteen people with legally obtained weapons. One attacker had been known to ASIO for six years. The system worked exactly as designed—which is precisely the problem Australia must now confront.

The Exemplary Destruction: What Jimmy Lai's Conviction Reveals About Beijing's Control of Hong Kong's Business Elite

The Exemplary Destruction: What Jimmy Lai's Conviction Reveals About Beijing's Control of Hong Kong's Business Elite

Jimmy Lai's life sentence is not punishment but potlatch—the ritual destruction of the most valuable to demonstrate absolute sovereignty. For Hong Kong's surviving tycoons, the message is unmistakable: everything they possess exists at Beijing's pleasure.

The Cartography of Nowhere

The Cartography of Nowhere

The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor

The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor

European health ministries have traded data sovereignty for operational capacity, signing contracts with intelligence-linked analytics firms that GDPR cannot constrain. The legal architecture was designed for a threat that no longer exists.

The Temple and the Trap

The Temple and the Trap

A leaked phone call, a disputed cliff-top temple, and two nations' domestic politics collided in 2025 to produce Southeast Asia's bloodiest conflict in decades. The Thailand-Cambodia crisis reveals how ancient grievances become modern catastrophes—and why neither side can afford to stop fighting.