7 Things

March 2026

Water systems under attack. Beijing's slow squeeze on Taiwan.
The news, distilled
 • Adrian Monck
What The Manosphere Doesn’t Say
Violence has nowhere to go. And that’s a problem.
 • Adrian Monck
The Dire Strait: Why the US Went from Nuclear Negotiations to War on Iran in Five Days
How secret intelligence sold Trump on a spectacular strike that set the global economy on fire.
 • Adrian Monck
India’s Kitchen Crisis: How the Hormuz Closure Has Turned Into an Energy Nightmare
From cooking gas shortages to stranded solar power, the war on Iran has exposed every vulnerability in India’s multi-alignment bet
 • Adrian Monck
The Button: America’s Nuclear Weapons and Iran
Three new warheads, each designed to make use more thinkable. A target that no conventional weapon can reach. A president at 37% with sole authority to…
 • Adrian Monck
The Trillion-Dollar War Machine: What Is American Armed Power For?
Epic Fury turns America’s military welfare state, industrial policy, and global enforcement mission against itself
 • Adrian Monck
America Is Burning Through Its Best Weapons Faster Than It Can Build Them
The war on Iran, interceptor economics, and the unravelling of US alliance credibility
 • Adrian Monck
The Machine That Watched Epstein For a Decade Did Nothing. Now That It Could Provide Answers – It’s Being Taken Apart.
A secret DEA investigation, billions in suspicious transactions, eight agencies — and the dismantling of the unit that could have provided the answers
 • Adrian Monck
The Country That’s Winning Everything Except Its Future
Israel’s military power has never been greater. Its strategic options have never been narrower.
 • Adrian Monck
The Strait Truth
How the Hormuz crisis exposed Europe’s energy dependency – again
 • Adrian Monck
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