2026-10-26 12:17WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestTwo elections this week defined the global democratic landscape in opposite directions. In Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won reelection, defeating Senator Flávio Bols…2026-10-26 03:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa story this week is centered on France, where the protest movement that began over school conditions has evolved into a political ecosystem that explicitly incl…2026-10-25 18:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world this week is telling one story through a dozen different channels: people are running out of room to absorb the costs piled on them by wars, inflation, and clim…2026-10-25 03:01WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel: Research DigestThe most dangerous convergence this week is the way separate geopolitical crises are reinforcing each other. The Strait of Hormuz is the central node: Iran has restricted…2026-10-25 03:01ISRAEL WATCHIsrael Watch: Research DigestThe NAZA documentary is the most consequential cultural event around Israel's wars this week because it puts on screen what human rights organizations and journalists hav…2026-10-25 03:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world is not standing still while the major conflicts dominate the headlines. France is deploying 70,000 police and military personnel across its cities as hundreds o…2026-10-24 18:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe wave of unrest that started with French high school students protesting crumbling classrooms and teacher shortages has grown into the most significant European protes…2026-10-24 18:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world outside the main war zones is running hot. France is in its worst street violence in years after cost-of-living protests turned into riots that gutted the histo…2026-10-24 03:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world report this period is dominated by a single story that has swallowed almost everything else: France's worst civil unrest in years, which began as a student move…2026-10-22 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe world beyond the great-power and Middle East conflicts in October 2026 is a planet under simultaneous stress from multiple directions that rarely get equal billing: a…2026-10-20 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestUN News (Oct 16, 2026): Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye (November 9-20), representatives of three successive summit pre…
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