The 83rd festival opens with Danny Boyle’s account of Murdoch buying The Sun and runs to a four-hour Musk portrait — a slate that reads like an audit of who owns the public story.
A 49–46 vote fills Jeffrey Sutton’s seat with Ohio’s former solicitor general — and extends a second-term pattern: appellate judges drawn from the ranks of the president’s own courtroom advocates.
A 216–214 vote sends $95 billion toward the Pentagon, tariff-hit farmers and proof-of-citizenship voting rules in a single reconciliation vehicle — war finance and election law traveling as one partisan package.
Migration is usually counted in labor, remittances, and border pressure. A deeper cost is political: when citizens with democratic habits leave fragile systems, the countries they leave behind can become easier to capture.
A systems essay on statistics, fear, incentives, and the numbers that move before opinion does.
A concise briefing on migration policy, logistics, and the institutions operating just outside the headline.
A short file on missing dashboards, public data, and the gap between visibility and accountability.
A short video file tracing a vendor script through three public budgets.
