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OSINT

Beijing Stages a Reunion, on Its Own Terms

Xi Jinping met Friday in Beijing with Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang party, in the highest-profile cross-strait political contact in a decade. The meeting was framed by Chinese state…

Pixel Effects

What the Sunglasses Saw

The obvious read of this frame is a woman at a Pride event showing something on her phone to the man beside her. That is what is happening. It is not what the photograph is about. Look at the lenses.…

Policy Maker

The Franchise Model of Neo-Autocracy

Why Orbán’s Fall Would Matter More Than Trump’s The franchise metaphor is more precise than it might first appear, and precision is where the insight lives. A business franchise operates on a core…

Policy Maker

The Left Franchise and Its Losing Causes

The right-populist franchise has received the most analytical attention, and fairly so — it is the more theatrically disruptive of the two. But the left operates its own franchise model, runs its own…