Tracking Slow-Moving Geopolitical Stories

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How it works

Every topic is followed by an automated topic watcher. Each week, it searches the internet for new reporting and analysis, adds what it finds to a living wiki of sources, actors and explainers for that topic, and writes a short update on what has changed. Once a quarter it steps back and writes a longer review of the bigger picture.

What to keep in mind

The updates are summaries, not a substitute for the original reporting. Each topic page lists the key sources the watcher checks first, and everything it has indexed can be found through search, so you can read the originals for yourself.