kash-patel’s-futile-quest-for-validation

commentary The FBI director tries to force his popularity on the American public and media — and it backfires Published April 24, 2026 6:45AM (EDT) FBI Director Kash Patel (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Atlantic’s recent exposé of Kash Patel is full of alarming allegations. The FBI director, according to sources,Continue Reading

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Ex-Barcelona star Hector Bellerin’s injury-time leveller for Betis stops Real Madrid closing gap in La Liga title race., Ex-Barcelona star Hector Bellerin’s injury-time leveller for Betis stunts Real Madrid’s Liga title title challenge. Former Barcelona defender Hector Bellerin snatched a late point for Real Betis in a 1-1 La LigaContinue Reading

the-pentagon’s-$54-billion-bet-on-autonomous-warfare

OPINION — The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only the most attentive analysts can find the seismic activity. The $1.5 trillion FY2027 spending proposal contains exactly such a shift, a profound and subtleContinue Reading

ukraine-details-its-“deep-strike-center”-–-the-coordination-unit-behind-long-range-drone-operations-on-occupied-territories

Ukraine has formalized a new “deep strike center” within its Unmanned Systems Forces to coordinate attacks on high-priority Russian targets, including those located deep behind the front line, military officials said. The center is designed to systematize how Ukraine plans and executes strikes on key enemy assets, particularly in occupiedContinue Reading

can-europe-help-the-middle-east-resolve-the-war-on-iran?

Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from the EU summit in Cyprus., NewsFeed Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from the EU summit in Cyprus, where the leaders of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan met with European leaders to discuss the regional crisis caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran. Published OnContinue Reading

‘tell-it-to-the-judge,-roberts’

The The Traitor era outpaces expectations. It routinely shows us that we can be abandoned by more institutions, and become much more fascist, much faster than we thought. The worst things happening for the worst reasons can feel hacky in fiction, but never in these United States. Yesterday’s scoffingly farcicalContinue Reading

palantir-just-unmasked-itself-to-the-world

The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealingContinue Reading