Late on 3 December 2024, South Korea’s president went on television and declared martial law. The decree banned political activity and placed the media under the control of the martial…
Here’s a paradox that deserves more attention than it got. In 2025, some of the loudest and most persistent pressure on the Trump administration over the Epstein files didn’t come…
In March 2025, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, found himself added to a group chat. It was on Signal. The other members included the US national security adviser,…
When gang violence overwhelmed Haiti, the international response was to ask for a volunteer. Kenya stepped forward. In October 2023 the UN Security Council authorised a Kenya-led Multinational Security Support…
On 4 December 2025, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signed a peace accord in Washington. President Trump called it “a great day for Africa, great…
Most atrocities are described afterwards as things nobody saw coming. El Fasher can’t be described that way. The city in Sudan’s Darfur region was besieged by the Rapid Support Forces…
