Sunday, September 27, 2026
ArchiveEgypt Warned Netanyahu of Impending Attack on Israel Before Oct. 7
Cairo says it warned Netanyahu directly that something was coming. Three years of argument over who knew what now has a named channel and a date attached to it.
Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore
Frum's case: your mortgage rate is a verdict on Washington. Bond buyers, he argues, have quietly started pricing in the chance that America no longer behaves like a safe borrower.
News Tells You What Happened. Drawing Shows You How It Felt | George Butler
A 99-year-old survivor of the Holodomor. A man gathering books blown into a rose garden. Butler draws the scenes cameras give ninety seconds, and something else surfaces.
A cranial organ allows sperm whales to sink ships
The Essex sinking wasn't a novelist's embellishment. That enormous forehead houses an organ engineered to deliver a blow capable of staving in a whaling ship's hull.
Mithridatism and the Myth of Poison Immunity
King Mithridates dosed himself with poison daily so no assassin could touch him. When he finally wanted to die by it, he couldn't. Toxicology says he was half right.