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On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to allow President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service to go into effect. Legal challenges are still working their way through the courts, and the Court may revisit the case, but for now, the ruling stands. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered… Read more: First They Came for the Transgender

Over the last eleven posts, I have retraced the final eleven days of Adolf Hitler’s life—from his 56th birthday in a burning Berlin to his final breath in a concrete bunker. We followed him and the people around him through paranoia, betrayal, fantasy, and finally, suicide. It’s a grim story, and a real… Read more: After the Bunker: What We Know, and Why It Matters

April 30, 1945, was Adolf Hitler’s last day alive. In the narrow corridors and concrete chambers of the Führerbunker, the end unfolded with a quiet, clinical certainty. Outside, Soviet forces had advanced to within a few hundred meters. The Reich was finished, Berlin was lost, and everyone inside the bunker knew it. Hitler… Read more: Part 11: April 30, 1945 – Hitler’s Last Day