Rest of the World Special Reports

The Rest of the World Report | Saturday, May 10, 2026

The maps. The voter roll purges. The ICE uncertainty. The enforcement vacuum. The certification layer. The enthusiasm data. The turnout arithmetic. The geography of suppression. The international frame. And the plaintiff who brought the case that ended sixty years of voting rights protection — a man who has called American elections rigged.
The answer to the question “what does it take for November 2026 to reflect what Americans actually want?” is in this report. It is specific. It is uncomfortable. It does not tell you what to do. The facts do that work on their own.

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The Rest of the World Report | Saturday, May 2, 2026

The Supreme Court didn’t strike down the Voting Rights Act on April 29. It did something more durable: it left the law on the books and emptied it. The Special Report is live at restoftheworldreport.org — and the inaugural episode of the Rest of the World Podcast drops tomorrow.

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The Rest of the World Report | Special Report

April 25, 2026 THE CEASEFIRE CLAUSE Self-Defense Carve-Outs, Ceasefire Violations, and Who Gets to Decide On the morning of November 27, 2024, a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon went into effect at 4 a.m. local time. Hours later, Israeli forces fired on civilians returning to their homes in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam. The […]

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The Rest of the World Report | Special Report

Space Travel Benefits Us All Published Day 44 | Monday, April 13, 2026 When I posted about Artemi II returning I was surprised by some of the pushback I received. So I decided to illustrate the ways in which we have all come to benefit from the science of space travel. This Special Report is […]

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The Rest of the World Report | The Children

Hind Rajab was six years old. She spent her last three and a half hours alone in a car surrounded by the bodies of her family, on the phone with a dispatcher, waiting for an ambulance that was deliberately destroyed before it reached her.
Ritaj Rihan was nine years old. She was shot at her desk in a tent classroom two days ago, during a ceasefire, in front of forty-four other children.
Between them: more than 18,000 children killed in Gaza. A thirty-year documented record spanning booby-trapped toys in Lebanese villages, 1.2 million cluster submunitions fired after a UN ceasefire resolution passed, AI targeting systems that authorized civilian deaths as a statistical acceptable loss, and strikes on schools where no military target was ever found.
This is not a summary of allegations. Every claim in this edition is sourced to independent investigations, UN bodies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and wire services. The record exists. It has never produced accountability.

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The Rest of the World (Special) Report: The Grift

When Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, he became the first president in the modern era to refuse to divest from his business empire or place his assets in a blind trust. What followed was documented, painstakingly and over years, by the Democratic staff of the House Oversight Committee, using financial records obtained from Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, through a court order that took years of litigation to enforce.

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The Rest of the World Report | Special Report

America’s Broken Promises

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The Rest of the World Report | Special Report

The United States air travel system is in crisis. Not metaphorically. Structurally, measurably, with a body count.

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