The world as it actually is, not as the press release says it is.

Zane Balian writes about international affairs, American politics, constitutional law, geopolitics, and sport, plus whatever else demands an honest take.

He recently completed a degree in International Affairs and Economics at The George Washington University, with minors in Mathematics and Chinese, and is now pursuing an MSc in Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, he has lived across Taiwan, Singapore, France, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia.

He has been writing about politics and foreign policy for years, in British spelling, unapologetically.

Read the essays on Substack, or get in touch at balian.zane@gmail.com.