Analysis

Analysis

Explosions above buildings in Gaza City. Photographer: Mahmud Hams/AFP

Gaza is a reminder of Egypt’s relevance to the Middle East

Cairo will play the pivotal role in engineering a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas

A waiter serves a customer on the reopened Les Deux Magots cafe terrace, on May 19. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg

From Parisian cafes to Roman gelato, Europe is finally reawakening

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020. Photo: Foreign Policy

The crisis in space

Israeli soldiers looks on during clashes with Palestinian youth in the city center of the occupied West Bank town of Hebron on April 24, 2021. Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP

Israel’s war will never end

Photo: Foreign Policy

The world might want China’s rules

The untold story of how Jeff Bezos beat the tabloids

The untold story of how Jeff Bezos beat the tabloids

Photo: Bloomberg

Euro-area economy slips into double-dip recession

A health worker checks oxygen cylinders at a makeshift quarantine facility in New Delhi. Photo: Bloomberg

How a Covid spike is sucking the oxygen out of India

Netflix logo. Photo: Collected

Has Netflix peaked?

Photo: Bloomberg

Why impact of ‘long Covid’ could outlast the pandemic

Vladimir Putin, space man. Photo: Bloomberg

Russia, US and China are in a scary new space race

Factories will be firing on all cylinders, but not just yet. Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg

Boom times are coming, if only you can wait

A maze of crude oil pipes and valves is pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.S. June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Richard Carson/File Photo

What happens when an oil giant walks away