Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Space is an emerging market

Space is no longer a cool niche - it now touches every lever of state power at once.

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Elise Labott
Jul 21, 2026
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Three decades covering foreign policy has taught me one thing: the story is almost never as simple as your side wants it to be. That’s why I call balls and strikes without keeping score.

That means you get reporting and analysis that makes partisans on both sides a little uncomfortable. Clear-eyed, fact-based, and beholden to no one.

If that’s the kind of…

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