Opinion
The tippinsights opinion section reflects articles where our individual authors or individual groups (from anywhere on the political spectrum) utilize our data to make compelling arguments.
Beijing’s Chokepoint
China spent years buying discounted Iranian oil. The bill arrived at Hormuz.
Super Power To Spare: How Battery Tech Illuminates Competition Between U.S. & China
One year ago, the Chinese battery giant CATL announced that it had redefined the limits of electric cars by creating a battery that could power a vehicle for 320 miles on a 5-minute charge.
Tehran's Blackmail
When Iran called the Strait of Hormuz its territory, one hundred thirteen countries disagreed.
Payback: Russia Uses Iran As A Proxy Against The United States
With the onset of the war in Iran, Moscow now has a new opportunity to retaliate against the United States and Ukraine’s other NATO sponsors. Russian leaders are not hesitant about tormenting Washington. Indeed, they are already taking tangible steps to do so.
‘Ways Of War’ Are In Metamorphosis: Lessons From The Iran War
The post-war western approach (especially in the Cold War context) relied on the ability to outspend any military adversary through the acquisition of high-end, over-engineered and costly manned aircraft and munitions.
Progressives And Conservatives Are Wrong About Taxing The Rich
Calls to “tax the rich” are, once again, gaining traction online in recent weeks. It kicked off last month after New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a new tax on second homes in New York City worth more than $5 million.
Someone Always Knows First
Think of a price as a sentence in a language that millions of people are writing simultaneously, without coordination, without a central editor, each contributing one word based only on what they personally know. The resulting text—the price—somehow summarizes it all.
Depopulation Won’t Save Us Or The Planet
The reasoning is lucid and, at first glance, convincing: fewer people should mean less consumption, lower emissions, and more space for the natural world to recover.
How Russia Lost Friends And Global Influence
By Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project Syndicate | May 13, 2026
Gold’s Grim Message
Central banks’ purchases and repatriation of gold are on the rise, and both should be viewed as a symptom of deglobalization. They signal the advent of a more geopolitically fragmented world in which cross-border transactions of all kinds are poised to become more difficult and costly.
