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🎙️ Watch: Spain Is Welcoming Migrants While the Rest of the West Builds Walls. Here Is What That Looks Like.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Thursday, June 11, 2026

Jun 11 • Alexander Verbeek

5:14

Trump Promised a Peace Deal in "Two or Three Days." He Got Bombing on Day Two and More Bombing on Day Three.

Morning Compass — Thursday, June 11, 2026

Jun 11 • Alexander Verbeek

One hundred years of Gaudí, Who Died on This Day in 1926.

The sainthood cause that needs two miracles, the papal Mass today, and 12,060 plastic bricks

Jun 10 • Alexander Verbeek

🧭 Booed in His Hometown, Asleep in His Suite, 35 Percent Approval. Trump's War Is Not Going as Planned.

🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Jun 9 • Alexander Verbeek

🎙️ Watch: The World's Conflict Researchers Just Published Their Worst Numbers Since 1945

🎙️ Morning Comments — Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Jun 9 • Alexander Verbeek

3:59

The World Just Had Its Most Conflict-Ridden Year Since World War II. Here Is What the Data Shows.

I sat in on yesterday's PRIO briefing in Oslo. The numbers for 2025 are some of the worst since World War II, and most of it never made the news.

Jun 9 • Alexander Verbeek

🎙️ Watch: Trump Is Removing 900 Ocean Sensors on World Oceans Day. The Consequences Will Last Decades.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Monday, June 8, 2026

Jun 8 • Alexander Verbeek

4:02

🧭 An American Fascist on the Beaches Where Americans Once Fought Fascism. Europe Noticed.

🧭 Morning Compass — Monday, June 8, 2026

Jun 8 • Alexander Verbeek

🎙️ Watch: A Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Back in Texas. Trump Had Cut the Program Designed to Stop It.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Friday, June 5, 2026

Jun 5 • Alexander Verbeek

4:59

🧭 Trump Just Spent $700 Million on Coal, While Europe Saves €136 Million a Day With Solar. Happy World Environment Day.

🧭 Morning Compass — Friday, June 5, 2026

Jun 5 • Alexander Verbeek

🎙️ Watch: Kushner Wants to Build a Resort on One of Europe's Last Pristine Coastlines. Albania Is Fighting Back.

🎙️ Morning Comments — Thursday, June 5, 2026

Jun 4 • Alexander Verbeek

3:41

🧭 Republicans Are Breaking With Trump on Four Fronts Simultaneously. Something Has Shifted.

🧭 Morning Compass — Thursday, June 4, 2026

Jun 4 • Alexander Verbeek