An Ordinary Night

War and Security · Ukraine · Drones · Military Technology · War and Security
2026-04-26

What a single message from Kyiv reveals about how this war is really being fought The message came in just after dawn. “Two people died, 15 people were injured. Unfortunately, this is an ordinary night in Ukraine.” Svetlanka in Kyiv sent…

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Carney at Davos

Political Power · War and Security · Trade
2026-01-27

The speech that quietly changed the conversation At Davos last week, Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, did something most leaders carefully avoid. He told a room full of presidents, finance ministers, central bankers, and chief…

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Best-in-World, On Purpose

Health Insurance · Public Health · Hospitals
2026-01-07

A Blueprint for Replacing America’s Health Care System With One That Works It starts the way so many American health care stories start now: with a calendar.¹ Not a diagnosis. Not a lab result. A date circled in red, six months out, when…

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An American Dream

White House · Political Power · MAGA
2025-10-28

The smell of old auto exhaust rolled off the parking lot at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan. Dawn was just thinning the darkness, and winter’s freeze still whispered from the curbs. Suzanne Jennings, 65, stood in line, thumb…

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Broadview

White House · Law and Courts · Immigration
2025-10-23

The first thing you notice at Broadview isn’t the shouting, it’s the wind. It knifes across 25th Avenue, lifting cardboard placards that say “No Kings, No Camps,” and scuttling empty water bottles toward the ICE gate. The fence still…

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Before the Tumor

Medicine · Hospitals · Artificial Intelligence
2025-10-02

The infusion chairs at UMass Memorial face a wall of windows, and in late afternoon the light turns the IV bags the color of iced tea. A retired school bus driver named Nancy waited for her nurse to swap lines and tapped a folded handout…

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