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OPINION: ChatGPT Takes Your Pulse — Public Health Entrusted to a Language Model
OpenAI states, on the page announcing the launch of "Health in ChatGPT" dated July 23, 2026, that "every week, more than 300 million people…
ANALYSIS: Venezuela — a Transition Written in Washington, Negotiated in Caracas
It was Marco Rubio , the U.S. Secretary of State, who announced that talks on a democratic transition in Venezuela would begin in early…
COMMENTARY: A Supermarket in Chernihiv — the Normalization of War Crimes in Ukraine
On the night of July 27 to 28, 2026 , the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia had launched 147 strike drones — Shahed,…
EDITORIAL: Measles — America Gives Up a Twenty-Six-Year-Old Public Health Victory
There is a line , in a table the CDC updates every week, that should never have filled up the way it has. It…
ANALYSIS: South China Sea, Manila Turns Its Standoff With Beijing Into a Coalition Affair
On July 26, 2026 , the United States and Japan joined the Philippines for maritime exercises in the South China Sea , according to…
INVESTIGATION: Seven Billion in Retaliation, Washington's Written Admission on Clean Energy
The US Department of Energy admitted in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects "based solely…
OPEN LETTER: West Bank, Settler Law and the Silence of Protectors
On July 24, 2026 , according to Al Jazeera , more than 20 Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad attacked Palestinian…
EDITORIAL: Twenty Billion for Football's Soul, FIFA Puts the World Cup Up for Sale
FIFA announced on July 28, 2026 that it plans to create a new, separate company, FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) , to manage commercial rights…
ANALYSIS: South Dakota, the Republican Machine Crushes the MAGA Insurgency
Sometimes one number tells the whole story of a quiet civil war inside a single party. 70.8 percent to 29.2 percent : that is…