In a village close to a military site, residents report aerial vehicles hovering above their houses.

> The cliff faces rose vertically around them and there was nowhere for their feet to find solid purchase. The stone wall’s surface was covered with holes for pegs arranged by former (travelers) in a systematic way. Each man was equipped with four pegs. First, he retrieved the lower peg, then grasping the peg above him with his hand, lifted himself along the wall, repeating this over and over. It took a whole day to cross this section when our feet finally returned to flat ground and we waited for the others to arrive so as to count our numbers: twelve of our group had perished.

Sanae Takaichi refuses to let gender define her politics, but her first year in office has made her a lightning rod for competing anxieties about women and power.

On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s security fence. Over 1,400 men, women, and children were brutally murdered in the ensuing attack. More than 250 men, women, children...