Vasily Grossman, the Ukrainian Jewish journalist who accompanied Soviet soldiers when they liberated Auschwitz and first reported on the gas chambers, offers words of hope for those of us despairing in the face of growing authoritarianism:

Anne Applebaum: "Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally. It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but

For those not paying attention, this was written into the National Security Strategy of the Trump administration—the U.S. is trying to use Orbán as a battering ram to destroy the EU. This is what Marco means by him being essential to their plans. They have to find the corrupt or

Observation: Many times, when I see Western media making mistakes in their coverage of Ukraine, I realize those errors could easily be avoided with a better understanding of the Ukraine’s mentality, culture, and history — along with more critical thinking when it comes to Russian

Zelenskyy to Politico: "We had Budapest Memorandum, that was just security guarantees. We gave nuclear weapons, and other different weapons, and a lot of jets, etc. Dozens of jets. And we've got security guarantees that our sovereignty will be ours, and we will have

Zelenskyy on Trump's push for Ukraine to compromise with Russia: "We made a lot of compromises. Putin and his friends, they are not in prison, this is the biggest compromise.” "We can't forget that they killed so many people," he tells our @DashaBurns. #MSC2026 #POLITICOPub

The fact that this heartfelt article, written by a human, will gain vastly less attention than that viral AI slop panic piece did tells you everything you need to know about where we are headed.

“We’re in deep trouble,” one commander reportedly said after NATO’s Hedgehog 2025 exercises in Estonia. 16,000 troops. 12 NATO countries. A team of just ~10 Ukrainian drone operators playing the “enemy.” In half a day, they simulated destroying 17 armored vehicles and hit around

Magyar: My colleague and future Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary. Anita Orban: introduces herself. Magyar: the name is only a coincidence. Tusk: My name is Donald. https://t.co/f54E3M0YZ5

Happy to see the rational US left condemning Russia on the principles of democracy and anti-imperialism instead of justifying Russian genocide based on the myth of "anti-NATO self-defense."

If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields.

The funniest satire of AI hype culture I’ve read this year.

“I think we are one big step into dictatorship already.” Conservative historian Robert Kagan. Robert Kagan: "Well, I think we are one big step into dictatorship already. It's not clear to me that any institution in the United States is really prepared to stand up to Donald

There’s a certain perversity in banning Russia from the Olympics while also punishing an athlete for quietly commemorating the very thing that Russia was banned from the Olympics for doing.

This is what happens when that ignoramus Bezos fires all the foreign correspondents and noone on staff understands anything about the rest of the world. Expect much more of this type of amateur reporting from the Post in the future.

EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

Of course.

The IOC disgraces itself yet again.

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

Russia's Pravda network has published millions of articles across 80+ countries. The target is not human readers. The target is AI training data. The attack chain: → Pravda publishes mass-produced articles → Web crawlers ingest them as training data → AI models encode Russian

I see claims Kallas' demands are "unrealistic" and "obstructing peace". I strongly disagree. Yes, Ru is intransigent, but it failed to achieve its goals in Ukraine and therefore it has to face reality and make concessions. This is how peace-making works. Force Ru to compromise.