Nepal trades long-term resilience for a short-term payout
The images from Gyirong are a study in the fragility of ambition. A five-storey customs building, gone. A border gate twenty metres tall, erased.
By Klaus Berger ·
World — Lorien Times
Trump's real estate deal for Ukraine is a countdown to catastrophe
The diplomatic theater currently unfolding between Moscow and Kyiv is not a peace process; it is a transaction.
By Klaus Berger ·
Plenkovic failed Lika by treating the region as a toxic landfill
When you spend your life managing logistics and balancing ledgers, you learn one immutable truth: if the paperwork says one thing and the ground says another, the paperwork is a lie.
By Grant Colby ·
The United States chose to defend a distorted map and lost
In the diplomatic world, there is a particular kind of loneliness reserved for the state that votes "no" when 164 others vote "yes." It is the loneliness of the outlier, the state…
By Tom Beckwith ·
Nuwakot's survivor proves the survival window is a lie
There is a kind of arithmetic used by people in air-conditioned offices—people who have never felt the grit of a seed drill or the panic of a creek jumping its banks—that tells…
By Ruth Behrens ·
Milei uses sanctions to break the UK's hold on the Falkland Islands
If you want to understand why Javier Milei is suddenly pivoting from libertarian deregulation to the blunt instrument of state sanctions, stop reading the diplomatic cables and…
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Yolanda Marodi murdered Rebecca Marodi and failed all of us
When a monster destroys a life, we look away, hoping it was an isolated aberration. But the reporting from NBC News and ABC7 Los Angeles makes looking away impossible.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Tim Miller paid a killer because League City failed him
Down along the Interstate 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where the live oaks shade a 25-acre patch near Calder Road in League City, Texas, the ground holds secrets that local…
By Ruth Behrens ·
Nepal's zip lines are a confession of state failure
When Shisir Khanal, Nepal’s Foreign Minister, calls this disaster a "Himalayan tsunami," he’s using a word that sounds like an act of God.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Pedro Sanchez is a passenger in his own government on Ceuta
In my father’s day, if the neighbor opened his gate and let a hundred head of cattle stampede through your corn, you didn’t ask for a signed confession before you started fixing…
By Ruth Behrens ·
Lindsay Clancy is a patient, not a monster for the jury
The basement of a home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, is where the medical system’s failure finally hit the floor.
By Josie Calloway ·
Berlin's end to the Goethe-Institut illusion is a long-overdue win
The German government has finally stopped pretending that cultural exchange can act as a hedge against state-sponsored terrorism.
By Klaus Berger ·
Real Madrid must fire Raúl Asencio for his crimes
The math of elite impunity is simple: if the fine is lower than the cost of the mistake, the law isn't a deterrent; it’s a service fee.
By Imani Sutton ·
Norway's seizure of Professor Moltschanow is justice served
Now, let us be clear about the record: the arrest of the Professor Moltschanow is not a diplomatic spat, nor is it a sudden act of Arctic aggression. It is a collection action.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Minneapolis shooting was a choice made by negligent management
The blood on the floors of a downtown Minneapolis high-rise doesn’t care about the zip code, but the people who let it get there certainly do.
By Maya Ellison ·
Trump cheers as the UK monarchy expels Harry and Meghan
Donald Trump is celebrating a homecoming he didn't invite.
By Imani Sutton ·