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INVESTIGATION: When the Supreme Court Humiliates Trump on the Second Amendment — For a Marijuana Smoker
On June 18, 2026, a 9-0 unanimous Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Hemani struck down the federal gun ban on marijuana users…
COLUMN: Trump Offers Iran $300 Billion — and His Own Base Screams "Surrender"
Some betrayals come from enemies. The more painful ones come from friends. In mid-June 2026, Donald Trump is living through the second kind. Tucker…
INVESTIGATION: The Pack Around Moscow — How Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang, and Minsk Feed the War
This war is told as a duel: Russia versus Ukraine. That is wrong, or at least terribly incomplete. Behind Vladimir Putin stands a pack…
ESSAY: The West on Eggshells — Trump, the G7, and Chaos as a Method of Governance
Évian-les-Bains, June 2026: the G7 leaders came to a spa town on Lake Geneva and found themselves managing a president who declared 'I am…
FIELD REPORT: Sudan — The UN Sounds the Alarm on El-Obeid, 29 Countries at the Human Rights Council
On June 18, 2026, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk issued a cry from Geneva: "Stop this madness." Behind those three words: a city…
FACT-CHECK: Trump "Calls Zelensky and Putin on His 80th Birthday" — What Actually Happened
On June 14, 2026, Trump turned 80. Two of the world's most-watched men called him separately. Here is what was actually said, what each…
BREAKDOWN: Trump, AI, and China — When the West's Survival Rests on a Flawed Executive Order
On June 2, 2026, Trump quietly signed two AI decrees that frame the technology as a matter of national survival. The diagnosis is right.…
OPEN LETTER: Pro-Ukraine Republican Senators Against Trump — The Fracture Over Aid to Kyiv
An open letter to the Republican senators who co-signed the SABER Act: you represent something many thought extinct — an internationalist GOP tradition that…
COLUMN: Kim Yo Jong Buries Denuclearization — Pyongyang Answers the G7 Without Flinching
On June 18, 2026, Kim Yo Jong declared denuclearization "an irreversibly finalized agenda" — hours after the G7 reaffirmed it as a goal. The…