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NOTE: The Federal Court Strikes Down Trump's $100,000 H-1B Fee — But the Damage Is Done
On June 8, 2026, a federal judge in Boston ruled Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee unconstitutional. The court was right. But while Washington litigated,…

NOTE: Trump Offers the Keys to the American Arsenal to Europe — Finally, Perhaps
At the G7 in Évian on June 17, 2026, Trump said he would ask U.S. arms makers to consider licensing missile production in Europe…

EDITORIAL: £1 Billion in Frozen Russian Assets Turned Into 150,000 Drones for Kyiv
On June 18, 2026, Britain announced a £752 million military package for Ukraine — financed by Putin's own frozen sovereign assets. Poetic justice has…

FACT-CHECK: Moscow Convicts Ukrainian Soldiers for "Terrorism" — The Geneva Convention Says No
Russia has systematically tried captured Ukrainian soldiers as terrorists rather than prisoners of war. Over 305 have been convicted. The Geneva Conventions are unambiguous.…

COLUMN: Trump Against His Own Senate — The Republican Civil War Paralyzing Washington
Political science textbooks have repeated it for decades: governing with a parliamentary majority is harder than governing against the opposition. Donald Trump, in his…

ESSAY: The Ukraine 20-Point Peace Plan — NATO Abandonment, Territorial Freeze, Can Zelensky Sign?
Since mid-June 2026, a document has circulated in diplomatic corridors claiming to resolve in twenty points one of the most deadly wars in recent…

REPORT: Iran Opens Its Nuclear Sites to the IAEA — The West Holds Its Breath
In a closed Capitol briefing on June 18, 2026, envoy Steve Witkoff revealed a secret letter: Iran has invited the IAEA — including American…

ANALYSIS: 1.4 Million Russian Soldiers Ground Up — Putin's Macabre Arithmetic
A NATO official announced it with clinical calm: Russia has suffered between 1.3 and 1.45 million total military casualties since February 2022, including some…

PORTRAIT: Zelensky at Ramstein — The Wartime Leader Who Raises $4 Billion in a Single Day
Some men are revealed by war. Some are made by it. Volodymyr Zelensky has been transformed into something harder to name — a wartime…