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COMMENTARY: Trump's approval among under-50 voters craters by 38 points
Minus-41. That is Donald Trump's net approval score among American voters under age 50, according to an analysis published on July 30, 2026 by…
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,…
COMMENTARY: Netanyahu in Washington, an Alliance Grinding Under the Weight of the Iran War
Donald Trump received Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 28, 2026 for talks lasting about an hour and a half , according…
COMMENTARY: Patriot Under License, the New Currency Between Zelensky and Trump
Can a one-hour meeting shift the nature of a military alliance? On July 28, 2026 , Volodymyr Zelensky held a closed-door meeting with Donald…
COMMENTARY: 1,100 AI workers just asked Washington to slow down their own industry
More than 1,100 employees of the world's leading frontier AI laboratories — OpenAI , Anthropic , Google and Meta among them — signed an…
COMMENTARY: Tusk names Russia while condemning hate crimes against Ukrainians
One hundred eighty reports of hate crimes : that is the figure the daily Rzeczpospolita attributes to a wave of attacks against Ukrainian nationals…
COMMENTARY: Berlin rejects the EU's multiyear budget, leaves Brussels exposed
German chancellor Friedrich Merz met, on July 28, 2026 , Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin, where Ireland holds the EU's rotating presidency, to…
COMMENTARY: Beijing turns five years of aid diplomacy into a showcase
China's Foreign Ministry hosted a high-level meeting in Beijing on July 28, 2026 to mark five years of the Global Development Initiative , under…
COMMENTARY: Beijing cries provocation, and Ren'ai Reef stays exactly where it was
China summoned the Philippine ambassador on July 21, 2026 to lodge a formal protest over what it called a "deliberate provocation" by Manila at…