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ESSAY: The West Rediscovers the Right to Childhood Against Social Media
In less than eighteen months, more than forty countries decided to act. The United Kingdom, France, Australia, Norway, Malaysia, Indonesia — radically different geographies,…
INVESTIGATION: Eurosatory 2026 — Ukraine, AI and drones, the War Show reinvented itself in Paris
From June 15 to 19, 2026, the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre was transformed into the largest showcase the global defense industry has ever…
COLUMN: SpaceX raises $25 billion — Wall Street goes wild, bonds are already trembling
On June 22, 2026, SpaceX announced its inaugural bond offering on the credit markets. On June 23, the order books opened. On June 26,…
DECODING: Taiwan Han Kuang — the dress rehearsal before a real war with China
On June 22, 2026, Taiwan launched a military exercise of unusual scope: five days of immediate combat readiness drills, involving thousands of soldiers, armored…
ANALYSIS: Big Beautiful Bill — one year later, America counts the damage from Trump's law
On June 28, 2025, the US Senate adopted through budget reconciliation, by 51 votes to 49, the text that Donald Trump had named the…
NARRATIVE: Pokrovsk, Huliaipillia, Kostiantynivka — three names that sum up the hell of the Donbas
On June 25, 2026, Ukraine's General Staff recorded 257 combat engagements in a single day across the entire front. Two hundred and fifty-seven. That…
ANALYSIS: The Iran-USA Deal and the Strait of Hormuz — Victory or a Sixty-Day Gamble?
On June 17, 2026, Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian remotely signed a fourteen-point memorandum of understanding (MOU), officially concluding the nearly four…
INVESTIGATION: Apple and the "RAMageddon" — When AI Devours Memory and Drives Up Your Prices
In late June 2026, Apple hit its ecosystem with news nobody wanted to hear: the prices of MacBooks and certain iPad models were going…
PROFILE: Friedrich Merz — The Man Who Wants to Save Germany by Making It Tougher
Friedrich Merz waited. A long time. After being pushed aside from the leadership of the CDU by Angela Merkel at the turn of the…