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PROFILE: The Collective Face Of 1,400,000 Lost Russian Soldiers
According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff, total estimated Russian army losses since the start of the February 2022 invasion reached, as of…
ESSAY: Massive Russian Losses for Marginal Gains
June 2026 offers a brutal snapshot of what the war in Ukraine has become for the Russian army: 39,490 losses — killed and wounded…
OPEN LETTER: Russia's Advance Rate Collapses in 2026
To everyone who has spent months repeating that Russia is advancing relentlessly, I'm writing this letter with a number in hand.
OPEN LETTER: To the 17 dead of Hubei, swept away by a sky gone mad
I am writing you this open letter because numbers alone no longer suffice to tell what happened in China's Hubei province. Seventeen dead.
PROFILE: Maysak, the storm that redrew the face of southern China
Tropical Storm Maysak was, on the meteorological record, only a modest-strength system compared to the monsters that regularly cross the Pacific.
PROFILE: Starlink Offers Free Internet to Devastated Venezuela Until July 25
On June 25, 2026, the day after the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 — tremors of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, occurring…
TESTIMONY: How Reform UK brought down a prime minister
In May, the Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, swept local elections across England, winning 1,453 council seats and taking control of 14…
TESTIMONY: I watched Starmer resign outside Downing Street
On Monday, Keir Starmer stood outside 10 Downing Street to announce his resignation as leader of the Labour Party, in a speech several witnesses…
ESSAY: Hormuz under blackmail — Iran invents itself a planetary veto right
There is something dizzying in how Iran has turned a simple diplomatic courtesy clause into a sovereignty claim over one of the most strategic…