United Nations

For 19 years, one narrow seam connected two hostile halves of Jerusalem. Here's how the Mandelbaum Gate actually worked.

The UN General Assembly meets year-round — so why do heads of state fly in for one frenzied week each September?

Same protocol, two patterns: pointing agents at your own database, and pointing them at public data — with very different results.

A third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone.

A pro-Israel insider's critique: cherry-picked examples, refusing to concede any fault, and fighting fire with fire may be losing the people you mo...

Israel's Foreign Minister says embassy moves matter as much as the battlefield. A listener in Jerusalem says the problem isn't PR — it's policy.

A wax pencil drawn across a 1948 map became Jerusalem's binding border. Ghajar's line is precise but unmarked. What makes a border real?

A "sidelines" meeting sounds casual. It's actually a fully scripted format with its own rules — and the Greenland signing shows why the label matters.

Sixty-three defectors reached South Korea this year — every one through a third country. Here's what the DMZ, China, Russia, and sea routes really ...

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every...

Transponder gaps, paired blackouts, and satellite fingerprinting — how analysts actually catch sanctioned oil moving at sea.

Famine classification fights obscure simpler questions: how many children are acutely malnourished, and what does the data actually show?

Satellite imagery shows the scale. It doesn't show the eight meters of crushed concrete, the asbestos dust, or the ordnance beneath.

A retired consultant in Wales represents Kiribati from his house. Can you engineer that on purpose? The playbook, the vetoes, and the plaque.

It's not about weight — it's about capital intensity and cycles. Why the heavy/light split is younger than the factories it describes.

Daniel moved to Israel for ideology, not opportunity. So are ideological migrants the exception — or just badly counted?

Two commanders drew a ceasefire line in wax pencil in 1948. It became a city's border for nineteen years.

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.

Eight countries keep consulates in Jerusalem that bypass their own Tel Aviv embassies. The reason goes back four centuries.

Barbed wire, minefields, and a wax-pencil line: how Jerusalem's seven-kilometre border was physically torn down after 1967.

Same chopped tomatoes and cucumbers — a morning staple in Israel and Turkey, a symbol of joyless dieting in America. How did one dish mean two oppo...

85% of Greenlanders oppose joining the U.S. — yet Washington and Copenhagen are about to sign a security deal about their island.

What flying North Korea's flag carrier actually feels like — and why a cut-off state still shows up to ICAO meetings.

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...

There's no master list of survival foods — just a performance standard. And "acceptable" is written into it.