John James leads in polls with Trump’s endorsement, but a grassroots backlash is getting personal fast.

A former commander argues warships should target real military threats, while Reform’s critics accuse it of deflection.

Camille Le Coz says demographic pressure, labor gaps, and smuggling networks, not just images, drive the crisis story.

Technology is finally being used to find thousands of forgotten victims, but the site’s own construction was built to bury them forever.

Morocco reports 11 deaths, Spain says at least 72, and both figures make the social-media narrative a policy problem.

Kyiv says absent-without-leave soldiers can choose deployment area, commander, and job, in a push to cut massive AWOL backlog.

The state says the island went dark after another full collapse, renewing pressure on fuel supply and grid reliability.

A policy shift eliminates a longtime exemption and changes the risk calculus for refugees and the systems tasked with processing them.

The demographic problem pushes the state to solve labor needs through the defense machine. The fix threatens the rest of the economy.

The real bottleneck is who controls fuel-cycle risk in the Saudi deal, and what happens next if it breaks.

Foreign Affairs argues Beijing uses lots of modest initiatives to build long-term leverage across Latin America.

Three fires in eastern Washington, driven by exceptionally dry conditions, quickly erased homes and businesses and displaced tens of thousands.