Pakistan Didn’t Plan a Solar Revolution. Its People Built One Anyway — and It’s Quietly Breaking the Grid.
Worn down by daily blackouts and power bills that roughly tripled, millions of Pakistanis bolted cheap Chinese solar panels onto their roofs so fast that at the height of summer 2025 solar became the country’s single biggest electricity source — about a quarter of all power at peak (across a full year, hydro, coal and gas still rival it). No subsidy, no government plan. It’s the fastest grassroots solar boom anywhere — and it’s pushing the national grid toward a death spiral, with the people who can’t afford panels left holding the bill.
Criticizing Israel Isn’t Antisemitism. Real Antisemitism Sometimes Hides Right Next to It. Here’s the Documented Line — and Why a CNN Panel Just Exploded Over It.
A CNN panel blew up this weekend over a question tangling both left and right: where does criticism of Israel end and antisemitism begin? They’re different things — criticizing a government, including Israel’s, is ordinary politics; antisemitism is hostility or conspiracy aimed at Jews as Jews. The confusion gets exploited two opposite ways, and those failures aren’t mirror images. Here’s the line, the documented stakes, and the tests that tell them apart.
Megyn Kelly Told 350,000 Haitians to “Go Back to Haiti.” It Cost Her Nothing. Whether Hate Has a Price Depends on Who You Aim It At — and Which Country You’re In.
After the Supreme Court cleared the way to end legal status for ~350,000 Haitians, Megyn Kelly told them on a top show to “go back to f—ing Haiti” — and faced no penalty. Two rules explain the silence: in America, whether hate carries a cost turns on who it targets and whether the machinery to make it expensive was ever built for that group; and the same words are protected speech here but a regulated offence across most of the democratic world. Here’s how both work — and what you can do about either.
Thailand Has a Law That Lets Parents Take Back Gifts From an ‘Ungrateful’ Child. The Singha Beer Heir Is Testing It.
A 1908 Thai law — the “ungrateful child” provision — lets parents legally revoke gifts they’ve already given a child judged abusive, neglectful, or guilty of “serious reputational harm.” It rarely surfaces in public. Now the heir to the $1.75 billion Singha beer fortune is being sued under it by his own mother, after he went public alleging childhood abuse. He says the law exists to silence. They’re in court July 8.
Britain Keeps Changing Prime Ministers Without Asking Voters
Keir Starmer resigned as UK prime minister today, pushed out by his own Labour MPs after a historic run of election losses. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, would be Britain's 7th prime minister in about a decade — and like five of the last six, he'd take power without a general election.
Spy Agencies of Five Nations Just Issued a Rare Joint Warning on AI
The Five Eyes cyber security agencies (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) issued a rare joint statement warning that frontier AI will transform offensive cyber capabilities 'in months, not years' — days after a US order barring foreign nationals from Anthropic's two most powerful models forced the company to switch them off for everyone.