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  • Ceasefire, Interrupted: Israel Bombs the Meeting About Peace

    Ceasefire, Interrupted: Israel Bombs the Meeting About Peace

    There’s an old joke about Middle East negotiations: the closer the diplomats get to an agreement, the louder the bombs outside the hotel. On September 9, that punchline wrote itself when Israel decided the most efficient way to respond to Hamas’s leadership meeting in Doha—called to weigh a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal—was to obliterate the venue

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  • When Drones Mistake Neighbors’ Airspace for Buffer Zone: NATO’s Midnight Wake-Up Call

    When Drones Mistake Neighbors’ Airspace for Buffer Zone: NATO’s Midnight Wake-Up Call

    Some stories write themselves; others are written at 3 a.m. by frantic air defense operators staring at radar screens while politicians rehearse their outrage in bathroom mirrors. The overnight drone incursion into Polish airspace belongs to the latter category, a saga of buzzing machinery, scrambled jets, and the uncomfortable realization that Article 4 of NATO

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  • 107 Days of Recklessness: The Democrats Let Ego Write the Playbook

    107 Days of Recklessness: The Democrats Let Ego Write the Playbook

    Kamala Harris has decided the best way to heal the wounds of 2024 is to re-open them in hardcover. 107 Days, her memoir about the hundred-odd days between Biden’s exit and her own defeat to Donald Trump, isn’t even out yet and already it has Democrats chewing the furniture. The headline excerpt: it was “recklessness”

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  • A Single Round, A Million Excuses: A Cultural Critique of the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

    A Single Round, A Million Excuses: A Cultural Critique of the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

    Let us convene, grim-eyed, on the manicured quads of Utah Valley University, where normalcy shattered into shards of ideological glass in a single, solitary moment: the death of a political firebrand, felled supposedly by a single bullet from a nearby building. That bullet—cold, precise, unembellished by flourish or bombast—reduces weeks, perhaps years, of incendiary rhetoric

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  • Twenty-Four Years Later: What We Should Have Learned from 9/11 (But Absolutely Didn’t)

    Twenty-Four Years Later: What We Should Have Learned from 9/11 (But Absolutely Didn’t)

    The anniversary of September 11 rolls around every year like a fire alarm that no one bothers to silence anymore. We stop, we remember, we replay the grainy footage in our minds, and then—like a nation addicted to selective amnesia—we forget the one lesson we were supposed to have learned: unity. Not unity as in

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  • Charlie Kirk Assassination was a Travesty but Spare Us the Martyrdom

    Charlie Kirk Assassination was a Travesty but Spare Us the Martyrdom

    First, the only thing that should be easy to say I don’t condone political violence from anyone, toward anyone. A man was killed while speaking, a family lost their person, and that is a human tragedy before it is a headline. Full stop. It deserves grief, not grift. It deserves time to breathe, not instant

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  • The Birthday Book Blues: How Epstein’s Guest List Became Trump’s Latest Hallmark Special

    The Birthday Book Blues: How Epstein’s Guest List Became Trump’s Latest Hallmark Special

    America has always had a gift for taking the grotesque and wrapping it in party favors. We can turn a banking collapse into a Netflix documentary, a constitutional crisis into a coffee-table book, and now, Jeffrey Epstein’s rolodex into a “birthday book.” Imagine the scrapbooking aisle of Michael’s, but curated by Ghislaine Maxwell. This week,

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  • Trump vs. Newsom and the Battle for America’s Caps Lock Key

    Trump vs. Newsom and the Battle for America’s Caps Lock Key

    The Washington Post unveiled what can only be described as America’s summer-long pay-per-view event: the cage match between President Donald Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Forget inflation. Forget foreign policy. Forget climate collapse. The real fight for America’s soul is happening on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, now better known as a

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  • When the Sky Itself Becomes a Weapon

    When the Sky Itself Becomes a Weapon

    Overnight into September 7, 2025, Russia treated Ukraine not to diplomacy, not to dialogue, but to the largest aerial assault of the war. Eight hundred drones and decoys. A dozen-odd missiles. A Cabinet of Ministers building in Kyiv set ablaze like a grotesque fireworks finale. Ukraine says it intercepted the vast majority. But when the

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  • The Man Who Shot Down Shots: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Public Health Hunger Games

    The Man Who Shot Down Shots: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Public Health Hunger Games

    The curtain was finally pulled back on the chaos at the heart of American public health. And behind it wasn’t a wizard, or even a bureaucrat in a lab coat. It was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—HHS Secretary, anti-vaccine crusader turned federal kingpin of medicine, and proof that if you complain loudly enough about mercury in

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