Editor's Take

The intelligence warnings serve a narrower MAGA calculation than any desire to please Moscow

Macron’s M51.3 launch from Le Vigilant, days after fresh Kaliningrad nuclear warnings, shows how Moscow’s habit of public ballistic tests and deterrent signalling has become contagious

Washington wants the EU to release about 120 million barrels over six months to bring down pump prices in the U.S.

L’Express reveals Russian scenarios that include killing a commissioner; perhaps it is time the institutions noticed too

Hollywood will not have to invent the beats. It will have to decide which version of them is true

Using Google fines to cut national contributions is a windfall, not a budget strategy

An American pontiff still talks as if Brussels can halt a conflict it does not control. Does he overestimate Europe?

A high-profile claim was factually wrong, poorly defended afterward, and perfectly timed for the adversary the French president was trying to constrain

Frontier labs warn of risks for humanity, but also want Washington to squeeze the open-weight models that undercut their prices. Both claims can be partly true

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, America marks the day in two cities - and still argues over what the attacks meant, and what they did not

The UN just voted to correct the map. Demography already tells a larger story

The signal reads: you raise the cost of our airspace; we raise the cost of your command centres