About Fronts

At Fronts, we aim to make sense of global conflicts, and explore the hidden forces that dictate how those conflicts play out. Our team provides clear, detailed analysis, covering war, diplomacy, intelligence, and defense in collaboration with experts across the globe.

At Fronts, we believe that traditional and legacy outlets have grossly underestimated their audience. These outlets distill their public-facing analysis into hot takes and arguments meant to be clipped for social media, and when they do publish detailed, valuable investigations, their findings are buried far from the front page. In the process, they've left independent journalists and experts behind, and robbed the audience of their most valuable contributions.

Our team takes a very different approach. We firmly believe that both the intellect, and the attention span of our audience deserves respect. We believe that when global audiences leave legacy media behind, they are choosing to abandon coverage that has reached an insultingly low quality. Most of all, we believe that readers and listeners are perfectly capable of handling complex, detailed stories — but that it's all too rare to find stories that have been treated properly by the outlets that publish them.

For our collaborators and contributors, Fronts is a home for in-depth analysis and under-reported stories. Our editorial team works to ensure that stories are accessible and engaging, without sacrificing their depth, or narrowing the scope of the stories we're trying to tell.

Our team's work is guided by a set of core beliefs:

• Analysis doesn't have to be reductive, to be understood.
• Context makes a story clear, not complicated.
• Nuanced stories are better than neutral stories.
• Pointed stories do not have to be partisan stories.
• Analysis is better when it knows its own bias, than when it pretends to have none.

Our team is proud to draw on, and amplify the work of global journalists, especially from independent voices and front-line reporters in conflict zones across the globe. Our role is to help package and present their work, to ensure that it spreads as widely as possible.

Read our Editorial Standards, including how we use AI, our Ethics policy and our Corrections policy.

Fronts was founded in 2025 by the team behind the YouTube channel WarFronts, and its sister channel HomeFronts.

When our team started WarFronts (then Warographics) years ago, we planned to cover military history, with only occasional discussions of modern wars. Instead, we saw an overwhelming response from our audience when we chose to focus on ongoing conflicts — including ones that most outlets were hardly covering.

Through that experience, we learned that our audience was hungry for detailed foreign-policy coverage, deeper and more informative than what legacy media groups are willing to provide. We found that we could discuss world conflicts with nuance, and take the time to explore under-reported stories, in a way that didn't make our viewers tune out.

Over the last several years, we've turned Warographics into WarFronts, expanded to political coverage via HomeFronts, and finally, invited world-class experts to join us at Fronts. Here, we publish written analysis, deep-dive videos for Fronts Insiders, and a growing rotation of podcasts on the Middle East, the Global South, and more.