The Editor’s Pick is the shortlist: the articles our editor considers essential reading on foreign policy and geopolitics. The selection cuts across every region and every subject on the site, from the Strait of Hormuz and the China threat to the globalist agenda in Europe and the conservative wave in Latin America, and brings together the pieces that best explain what is happening and why it matters. New readers will find here the clearest statements of the America First perspective; regular readers will find the analyses worth returning to. Each article earns its place for a single reason: it helps you understand how the world really works and where the United States stands in it.
Colombia's president sent his vice president to the UN with a definition of globalism that names the problem: nations treated as obstacles to a uniformity decided above them. Milei, Fujimori and Kast spoke in the same key, Trump told the ICC's members to resign, and Petro's old speeches show what changed. UN and globalism, on trial.
The BRICS summit in New Delhi ended with a 45-page declaration that never names the United States. Modi rebuked China over critical minerals, Russia won silence about Ukraine, Iran left with its existing payment channels endorsed, not defended, and no common currency appeared. Eleven countries, eleven agendas, one photograph.
The France wildfires of 2026 now have a police file: 375 people arrested, 142 of them minors, while the media kept blaming climate change. Nine of ten fires are caused by humans, and about 30 percent are set on purpose. From Spain to Greece, the pattern repeats, and the climate change narrative burns faster than the forests it blames.
China Naval Expansion is reshaping the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. China is rapidly expanding its navy and shipbuilding capacity while the United States retains key advantages in nuclear-powered carriers and global experience. The challenge is whether America can sustain its long-term maritime edge.
The China-Palau conflict sounds like an exaggeration until you hear Palau's own president say his nation is already at war with China. Missiles fired with no warning, tourism bans, cyberattacks, and a Chinese mafia boss leasing land next to a US radar. Discover how a tiny island of 18,000 people keeps defying the communist red giant.
Germany's auto lobby admits it cannot keep all factories open and proposes selling them to foreign buyers. That means China. Green mandates, expensive energy, and Brussels' failed tariff policy created the German auto crisis. Europe's industrial sovereignty is at stake, and the buyers are already inside the gates.
On July 1, 2026, the U.S. officially refused to renew USMCA. "The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form," said USTR Jamieson Greer. The trade deficit is Trump's primary concern: 197,000 million dollars with Mexico plus 46,000 million with Canada in 2025, more than double what it was when USMCA took effect.
China warns Japan on remilitarization while operating the world's largest navy and fastest-growing nuclear arsenal. Japan's defense buildup is a rational response to Beijing's expansion. Prime Minister Takaichi is leading the most consequential shift in Japan's defense posture since 1947. Japan remilitarization is not the threat.
Keir Starmer's resignation on June 22, 2026 makes him the sixth UK Prime Minister to resign in ten years. Trump called it before Starmer even confirmed it. The Lowe rape gang report documented 250,000 victims and sealed his fate. Labour stays in power with Andy Burnham as frontrunner. Reform UK is surging. Britain said enough.
Washington just froze Anthropic's most advanced AI models over security fears, while Beijing hands out cheap, open-source AI to the whole world for pennies on every single dollar spent. The US-China AI war is no longer just about raw performance. It is now a fight over cost, national security, Taiwan, and who controls AI's future.
The US Iran ceasefire deal is real. Trump announced it at 3:57 AM from France, markets soared, and oil fell 4%. The Strait of Hormuz reopens June 19 under a 60-day MOU. Israel is not on board. Iran and the U.S. describe two very different versions of the same agreement. The next 60 days will tell the real story.
The Iran conflict exposed a deeper truth about modern war infrastructure: our most advanced technologies still run on oil, electricity, and undersea cables. AI needs power. Data centers need energy. GPS guides our missiles. And 97% of global internet traffic flows through cables on the ocean floor. The next war may target all of them.
