Serbia faces the fire as students march on Belgrade
As students march on Belgrade against an autocratic regime, Aleksandar Vučić faces a democratic reckoning that exposes the true limits of entrenched strongman rule.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
World — Lorien Times
Trump uses French unrest as a prop for his midterm campaign
Donald Trump is leveraging French street violence to fuel his midterm campaign, prompting a rebuke from Emmanuel Macron and exposing a transactional foreign policy that trades alliances for domestic points.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Donald Trump's 'stupid' comments ignore France's energy crisis
While Donald Trump blames migrants for French unrest to fuel his midterm campaign, Emmanuel Macron is securing diesel from the Gulf to save his government.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Vatican risks Pope Leo XIV by rushing his South America trip
The Vatican is prioritizing the image of a strong pontiff over the physical reality of a surgical recovery. By clearing Pope Leo XIV for a grueling tour of South America just weeks after lung cancer surgery, the Holy See is gambling with the health of a 71-year-old man. The cancer may be gone, but the toll of the operation remains.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Brad Lander's detention shows the occupation has no legal defense
The Israeli military arrested a New York nominee during an olive harvest, proving how the state uses security orders to enforce ethnic cleansing.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Wichita police failed families by releasing soccer field driver
After a truck killed two people at a youth soccer game, the Wichita Police Department wrongly released the driver without charges before toxicology tests were finalized.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Willie Herndon murdered Alyssa Wilson in a random highway attack
Willie Herndon shot a 17-year-old girl on a Missouri highway, an act of random violence that proves a lifelong pattern of lawlessness and disregard for human life.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Paris orders curfews and troops, but force cannot buy legitimacy
By deploying soldiers and imposing curfews to suppress nationwide unrest, the French government mistakes an economic breaking point for a mere policing failure that tactical force cannot cure.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Macron's security obsession hands france to Marine Le Pen
By treating economic desperation as a police matter, Emmanuel Macron has left France fractured and vulnerable to the far-right's promise of order.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Trump uses French unrest to hide America's fiscal crisis
American conservatives use Parisian riots as a campaign weapon, masking domestic debt strains behind crude warnings about immigration and the radical left.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Steve Witkoff flies to Oslo to script a partition for Ukraine
White House envoys gather in Oslo with European allies to draft a peace plan before meeting Vladimir Putin, bypassing Kyiv's leadership entirely.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Europe burns as debt and energy shocks break the centrist promise
Across Europe, soaring living costs and housing evictions have sparked violent unrest, exposing how sovereign debt burdens leave governments powerless to shield their people from external shocks.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Trump open to summit with Xi and Putin — to discuss denuclearization
President Trump's openness to a trilateral summit in Shenzhen, paired with sanctions waivers for Russia, prioritizes personal rapport over strategic stability and abandons Ukraine.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Mitchell Fairbarn faces prison after treating Peachy as a joke
A Nevada jury rightfully convicted Mitchell Fairbarn of animal cruelty after he took a flamingo from a hotel habitat for a drunk prank, proving animal abuse is a crime rather than a joke.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Washington turns off the early warnings as Russian missiles hit Kyiv
When the White House throttles intelligence and signals peace on Moscow's terms, Kyiv pays the price in cold power plants and blood on the streets.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Trump pushes Ukraine to surrender while Brussels counts the cost
As Washington trades sanctions for diesel and parrots Kremlin lines, Zelenskyy begs Europe for billions, proving once more that the periphery pays when big capitals decide.
By Aoife Gallagher ·