New talks were held this week between U.S. peace envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Sadly, hopes that these discussions will bring an end to the Ukraine war are unfounded. Ukraine wants to end the war with a guarantee it can defend itself in the future alongside direct Western […]

When Notre Dame Cathedral burned in 2019, the world mourned. It was apparently a tragic accident, and there was universal grief that one of the well-known symbols of French identity, the place of Napoleon’s coronation, and a beauty of Gothic architecture, was burned. The town hall for Limoges, France, is now also burning. Unlike Notre […]

Financial market sentiment is overwhelmingly negative at present. The semiconductor sector just experienced its worst drawdown since the Great Recession, and the neocloud stocks, which just a few months ago were on everyone’s buy lists, have imploded on fears of an artificial intelligence bubble. That’s just the start. Both Anthropic and OpenAI — with their […]

For the second time in two months, a polling organization embraced by media outlets has admitted to fabricating its results. This time, the deception lasted much longer, fooled far more organizations, and appears to have inflicted greater electoral damage. In August, Median Strategies admitted to making up polls that showed socialist Francesca Hong leading Wisconsin’s […]

Trump, like Silvio Berlusconi, will be a hard act to follow.