Briefing: 2026 ESPN Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide
Strategic angle: All the rankings, projections, cheat sheets, strategy and analysis you need for the 2026 fantasy baseball season.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Opinion
Commentary, analysis, editorial perspectives, columns, and interviews.
Briefing: Interview: B2B commerce is broken – innovation can fix it says Bharat Sharma
Strategic angle: Bharat Sharma discusses the challenges in B2B commerce and the potential for innovation to drive change.
Editorial Staff Mar 23
Briefing: Hillbilly Hostility: A Political Analysis
Strategic angle: Exploring the rise of regional tensions in American politics.
Editorial Staff Mar 21
Briefing: Opinion: Lessons from a bad weather forecast
Strategic angle: Residents in and around Washington braced themselves for damaging storms earlier this week, but turns out it was a forecast flop. One local meteorologist apologized.
Editorial Staff Mar 21
Briefing: Iranian strikes on bases used by US caused $800m in damage, new analysis shows
Strategic angle: Much of the damage was caused in initial retaliatory strikes by Iran in the week after the US and Israel launched its operation.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: A conversation with the ‘godfather’ of biotech
Strategic angle: This week on 'The Readout LOUD,' a conversation with biotech 'godfather' Stelios Papadapolous live from #STATBreakthrough.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: Norway Crown Princess Admits Manipulation by Epstein
Strategic angle: Mette-Marit acknowledges her lack of awareness regarding Epstein's past in a recent interview.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: Why the gender wealth gap is still so stubborn, and what it means for women's well-being
Strategic angle: Inequality in wealth between men and women persists, impacting women's overall well-being.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: Anne-Claire Legendre, new president of France's Arab World Institute: 'Our role is to provide tools for understanding'
Strategic angle: Legendre discusses her vision for revitalizing the Arab World Institute in an interview with Le Monde.
Editorial Staff Mar 20
Briefing: The autonomy of universities in the U.S. falls far behind peer group, analysis finds
Strategic angle: Academic freedom continues to decline worldwide, with significant implications for U.S. universities.
Editorial Staff Mar 17
Briefing: Generating Expressive and Customizable Evals for Timeseries Data Analysis Agents with AgentFuel
Strategic angle: A new approach to enhance conversational data analysis agents for various domains.
Editorial Staff Mar 16
Briefing: Six Nations Rugby: Final Round Analysis
Strategic angle: All the talking points and in-depth analysis from the final round of the 2026 Six Nations.
Editorial Staff Mar 15
Briefing: Opinion: An ancient, sophisticated palate
Strategic angle: Researchers looking at foodcrusts on the pottery shards of ancient humans say there's evidence of a wide variety of ingredients, indicating that they may have been experimenting with 'recipes.'
Editorial Staff Mar 14
Briefing: Trump’s New Nuclear Nightmare in Iran
Strategic angle: A deep dive into the implications of Trump's policies on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: An interview with Jerry Goldman, founder of the Oyez Project
Strategic angle: Exploring the impact of the Oyez Project on Supreme Court understanding.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Indonesian Nuclear Energy: Quo Vadis? – Analysis
Strategic angle: An in-depth analysis of the future of nuclear energy in Indonesia.
Editorial Staff Mar 12
Briefing: Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds
Strategic angle: Australia Institute data reveals a 10% increase in state and federal subsidies for fossil fuels, outpacing funding for the NDIS.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: The First Amendment’s application to public university students: an explainer
Strategic angle: Free speech on university campuses is a perennially hot topic, especially in light of recent protests.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Your child has pathological demand avoidance? Here's what it means—and nine tips for what to do
Strategic angle: Understanding and managing pathological demand avoidance in children.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Large drugmakers are developing fewer antibiotics, analysis finds
Strategic angle: The number of potential antimicrobial treatments being developed by the world’s largest drugmakers nosedived by 35% over the past five years, according to a new analysis.
Editorial Staff Mar 10