2026-10-26 18:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa and antifascist movement worldwide is having a moment that is not centered in the United States. In France, a student movement over underfunded schools has met…2026-10-26 18:01WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel: Research DigestThe most consequential geopolitical story of the week is the one that has not happened yet: a proposed trilateral summit between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinp…2026-10-26 18:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world report for 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 …2026-10-26 12:17ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifascist movement this week is operating across three continents and multiple fronts: street counter-mobilization against far-right conventions, legal defense infr…2026-10-26 12:17ISRAEL WATCHIsrael Watch: Research DigestThe West Bank has become the flashpoint. On October 23, two Israeli soldiers were killed and three injured in a shooting attack near Hebron. Netanyahu ordered the army to…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…2026-10-26 03:01WORLD INTELGeopolitical World Intel: Research DigestThe single most consequential diplomatic story of the week is Vladimir Putin's proposal for a trilateral summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at next month's APEC meet…2026-10-26 03:01WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe week's world report is dominated by two elections that represent opposite political trajectories. In Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term, def…2026-10-25 18:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe word "antifa" this week became a political instrument wielded by governments that want to delegitimize mass protests by attaching a label with authoritarian baggage. …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 03:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa designation story is entering its second year with concrete consequences. President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in September 2…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 18:01WORLD 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…2026-10-23 18:00ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe Trump administration's crackdown on what it labels 'antifa' has moved from executive orders and rhetoric into federal courtrooms and prison cells, and the first major…2026-10-23 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report: Research DigestThe world in October 2026 is experiencing what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called an 'El Niño of war' - conflicts that are not only intensifying but expanding a…2026-10-22 18:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe world in late October 2026 is coming apart at the seams in ways that are starting to connect. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking to reporters in New York…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…2026-10-21 18:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe Trump administration's designation of "antifa" as a domestic terrorist organization (an executive order with no legal basis under U.S. law, since there is no process …2026-10-21 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThis digest's catch-all section is dominated by two stories that are both, in different ways, about the breaking point of governance under pressure. In France, what began…2026-10-20 23:15WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThe dominant world story this week (and one that deserves attention separate from the Ukraine and Middle East wars), is France's explosion of cost-of-living protest viole…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…2026-10-18 18:01ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestEconomic Times (Oct): Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa a "domestic terrorist organization," sparked by the Sept 10 killing of Charlie Kirk at a Utah uni…
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