CaspianReport

A long-running channel for the strategic logic behind a region's headlines. CaspianReport has been analyzing geopolitical trends for more than a decade, and its narrated videos are at their best when they explain why a pipeline, a strait or a border shapes what governments do. It ranges across countries and regions that the big newsrooms rarely explain at length, which makes it a good habit for widening your map. The style is sober and map-driven rather than flashy, and the analysis concentrates on states, power and interests, so pair it with on-the-ground reporting for the human side of a story.