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COLUMN: Moscow hits the Kryvyi Rih steelworks four times, and no one signs the payroll
Kryvyi Rih, before. A city of iron. Mines, slag heaps, furnaces. And in the middle, the largest steelworks in Ukraine, the old Kryvorizhstal, which…

COLUMN: Helsinki and Stockholm share runways, and Russian aircraft meet two flags
The Gulf of Finland, late September. A low sea the color of slate. Granite islets. Ferries shuttling between Helsinki and Tallinn. On shore, people…

COLUMN: Orders hold, the 30-year climbs, and the borrower pays 7%
At 8:30 a.m., nothing drops. That is the bad news. On September 25, 2026, the Census Bureau releases August orders for durable goods. Virtually…

COLUMN: Europe Moved 8.5 Billion Euros in a Month — Ukraine Is Waiting Under the Missiles With 1% in Stock
That is what the European Commission says it has disbursed for Ukraine's defence since late June. €8.5 billion in a single month, drawn from…

COLUMN: The $5.6 million Trump lost for good — nine justices, not one dissent, and the Carroll case closed
On an order list posted one Monday morning in August, buried among dozens of cases nobody will ever read, the Supreme Court of the…

COLUMN: Trump cuts Seoul's shield while 18,000 soldiers rehearse their own survival
Eighteen thousand South Korean soldiers walked into exercise territory on Monday morning, right on schedule, the way they have every August for years. Ulchi…

COLUMN: Only 8% Call Russia’s War Very Successful

COLUMN: Venezuela’s August story begins with Trump’s January 3 announcement, not a new event
