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On Bloomberg This Weekend Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper calls the Pentagon’s polygraph testing of roughly 50 Joint Staff members unprecedented in scale as officials investigate leaks about US munitions stocks. Esper tells hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that he is less concerned about i

John Sawers tells FT Weekend Festival that enduring peace ‘not really conceivable’ while Vladimir Putin remains in office

Fuel tanker explosion after traffic accident kills 10 in Western Iran, state media says Reuters

America’s global effective tariff stands at 10.0%

Conservatives finally won and took over the state.

Trump's war has brought American strategy to a dead end.

Civilizationism would upend America’s role in the world.

A big dose of luck, and a distinctly odd character

Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026

Transforming the military has changed the war—and upended politics.