- In this issue6 articles
- Politics
A crisis they would schedule for the morning after
Recordings, a strategy document and a reported March conversation set out an effort to turn the 2026 midterms into a legitimacy crisis and to treat that crisis as a refounding.
- Technology
They knew in 2024. The web went dark in 2026.
Two critical flaws in PHP forced an emergency patch, a recommendation to take sites offline, and a reckoning with a fix the Foundation could not agree for two years.
- Politics
The Tariff Was the Policy. The Diesel Was the Tell.
Congress has armed Donald Trump with a bipartisan power to tariff the buyers of Russian energy, and he has signed it — even as he announces Russian diesel for American markets and Kyiv calls the arrangement a gift to Putin.
- Politics
The Night Tirana Answered with a Flamingo
Opposition to a Kushner-linked luxury resort has swollen into numbered marches, a diaspora echo and an open quarrel over whether Edi Rama faces his citizens — or what he calls a hybrid war.
- Conflict
Dawn Is Declared While the Strait Slips Away
Yemen’s government promises to retake Sanaa even as Houthi forces consolidate the Red Sea coast, drawing Saudi infrastructure, new foreign deployments and a fresh flight of civilians into a war the 2022 truce was meant to freeze.
- Politics
A lost eye, closed gates, and a sentence the wires will not share
In October 2026 a lycée revolt against university entry reform spread from Le Havre to Avignon and beyond, maiming teenagers, filling custody in figures the outlets cannot align, and leaving even a presidential condemnation of violence in dispute.