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Strait of Hormuz

A geopolitical flashpoint moving through business, energy, and security podcasts and newsletters in near-real-time — the July 2026 Iran/oil-shipping crisis, as it broke.

28,349 posts matched · last 24 months · refreshed hourly

Matched on 2 phrases
strait of hormuz hormuz

Momentum · how it moved

Oct 2024 Oct 2026

Weekly matches as a share of all posts that week — normalized so the line reflects real momentum, not just corpus growth.

The ripples — surrounding topics in Hormuz coverage

Iran & Israel
23,322 posts
Oil & OPEC
20,133 posts
Shipping & insurance
11,189 posts
Markets & inflation
10,931 posts
Energy & gas
6,987 posts
Fertilizer & food
3,585 posts

Each is Hormuz coverage that also touches this theme — a co-occurrence, self-filtered to themes with real signal.

Peak weeks — when it spiked

Mar 12, 2026

1,288 posts that week

  • The Daily Wrap Up —
  • NYC Congestion Pricing Scheme Prioritizes 'Envir... —
  • The False Choice Between Deterring China and Def... —

Mar 19, 2026

1,189 posts that week

  • The Daily Wrap Up —
  • ‘Plainly Wrong’: Berkeley Law Dean Accused of Vi... —
  • No Surprise: America Needs Our Allies More Than... —

Apr 2, 2026

1,315 posts that week

  • Yale Law School Loses Top Spot in Rankings After... —
  • The New York Times Double Standard on Defense Sp... —
  • Mamdani’s Cash-Strapped Parks Department Trains... —

Apr 9, 2026

1,344 posts that week

  • BREAKING: US To Send Thousands of Troops to Iran —
  • A Blitzkrieg of Blasphemy and Incompetence: Trum... —
  • The Scalp Hunters: How the Politics of Defending... —

Apr 16, 2026

1,181 posts that week

  • Trump Escalates the Iran War Crisis! With Robert... —
  • The “Strait of Iran” Illusion: How a 7-Week War... —
  • Could Apple Be the Next Intel? (e2617) —

Who's covering it

#1 No1 Writer · No1's Daily Digest 173
#2 Ismaele Writer · GeoPolitiQ 147
#3 KING CAMBO Writer · Fear and Loathing In Trader Hell 143
#4 K61 Writer · Kommander: Rapporto di Area 131
#5 Oliver Boyd-Barrett Host · Empire, Communication and NATO Wars 127
#6 Paul Krugman Host · Paul Krugman 107
#7 Izabella Kaminska Writer · The Blind Spot 104
#8 Michael Feller Host · Geopolitical Dispatch 98
#9 phil dauber Writer · Morning Musings- Thoughts from Dauber Island 98
#10 Mary Geddry Host · Geddry 96
#11 Prof Robert Pape Host · Escalation Trap 96
#12 Ashley Truong Writer · Viet Hustler 91
#13 Francesco Sassi Writer · Energy Geopolitics & Statecraft 91
#14 Jānis Vīksne Writer · Geopolitical Musings 85
#15 Ayesha Tariq, CFA Writer · MacroVisor 84
#16 Stu Turley Host · Energy News Beat 84
#17 John Ellis Host · News Items 80
#18 LoRosha Writer · LoRosha's Investment Desk 80
#19 Heather Cox Richardson Host · Letters from an American 79
#20 Bernard Hickey Host · 5 in 5 with ANZ 74

Sources — by share of their own coverage

Source Posts Share of their coverage
1 GeopoliticsUnplugged Substack their beat 275 50%
2 GeoPolitiQ 251 23.2%
3 Geddry their beat 234 38.5%
4 No1's Daily Digest their beat 233 91.4%
5 Drop Site News 210 19.1%
6 Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast their beat 207 82.1%
7 The Dark Side Of The Boom 199 18.5%
8 Kommander: Rapporto di Area their beat 198 59.1%
9 Fear and Loathing In Trader Hell their beat 181 66.5%
10 Schwab Network volume 169 1.5%

Share of coverage separates a beat from a mention: a show spending most of its output here (“their beat”) reads very differently from a big publisher where this is a sliver of a firehose (“volume”). Both are ranked by raw matching posts.

Data notes

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