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Browns Rookie KC Concepcion Draws ‘Worst Case Scenario’ Outlook

The Cleveland Browns have been a magnet of attention in the offseason, largely because of the quarterback battle involving Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson. However, a rookie is also turning heads in Cleveland Nation, and that player is none other than first-year wide receiver KC Concepcion. It remains to be seen whether Concepcion will develop […] The post Browns Rookie KC Concepcion Draws ‘Worst Case Scenario’ Outlook appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Aug 27 • 6:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Browns Rookie Filled With Emotion Ahead of Huge Personal Milestone

The quarterback battle between Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders has mostly been the story to follow in the offseason on the side of the Cleveland Browns. That is now settled, with Cleveland deciding to go with Watson over Sanders, at least for Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season against the Jacksonville Jaguars. But Cleveland’s […] The post Browns Rookie Filled With Emotion Ahead of Huge Personal Milestone appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Aug 26 • 9:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Patriots Rookie’s Bizarre Preseason Performance Could Secure Roster Spot

Behren Morton’s unusual combination of punting and late-game heroics may have convinced the Patriots to keep three quarterbacks.

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Aug 26 • 10:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Angel Reese Fires Back At Reporter With Bold Claim After Historic WNBA Rebounding Night

Angel Reese continues to rewrite the WNBA record books. Just two days after posting a career-high 31 points in a road win at Phoenix, the Atlanta Dream forward delivered another statement performance against the Los Angeles Sparks on Monday night. This time, her big night on the glass was not the only story out of Los [...]

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Aug 26 • 12:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar with internal discussions told CNN.

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Aug 20 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Roob's Instant Observations after a near-disastrous Eagles preseason opener

If it wasn’t for some heroics by rookie 4th-string quarterback Cole Payton in the final minutes, this would have been a complete disaster.

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Aug 15 • 10:29 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
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Marketplace Spotlight: Sulfur Cube-Inspired

Minecraft Marketplace moves fast. With every week that goes by, incredible new add-ons, worlds, mini games, and mash-up packs join the plethora of DLC already roosting on the Marketplace like loveable little birds. You can download birds, right? And now, with the arrival of sulfur cubes, it seems that Marketplace creators are working even faster, harder, and creative-er. How else would you explain the smorgasbord of new sulfurous delights now available for your delectation? How else would you explain the fact that these add-ons and worlds transform Minecraft with sulfury sports, sulfury contests, and even sulfury weapons? You simply can't. So, it's time for this humble (yet heroic) Minecraft.net writer to jack in to the Marketplace matrix once again and report back on what he finds. Will he come away with first impressions of seven new pieces of DLC or just a severe case of sulfur-induced nausea? Spoiler: it's both.

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Aug 11 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • minecraft.net
Review: Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls (PS5) - The Most Exciting Fighting Game in Years

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Aug 10 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com
Chicago Bears Over/Under Win Total: Can Caleb Williams' Heroics Continue?

Check out the 2026 O/U win total for the Bears, who won 11 games last season and finished first in the NFC North.

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Jul 30 • 5:50 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Walking Off into the Wildcard! Dbacks 6, A’s 5

The Arizona Diamondbacks were able to even the series with the Athletics Tuesday night thanks to a heroic walkoff from the veteran Ildemaro Vargas and a solid major league debut from Kohl Drake. Kohl Drake gave the Dbacks 5 much needed solid innings tonight for his major league debut. Overall his stuff was just ok, […]

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Jul 22 • 1:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
World Cup 2026: Jude Bellingham's heroics continue as England advances to semis with 2-1 win over Norway
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Jul 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Reflecting on the World Cup's complex colonial politics

The Haitian team's heroic efforts were followed by news that the U.S. Supreme Court has greenlighted the end of Temporary Protected Status.

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Jul 8 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • cascadepbs.org
Lionel Messi's Late-Game Heroics Are Hard To Believe; Not For Zlatan and Henry

The inevitable Lionel Messi delivered again, leading Argentina to an improbable comeback, keeping its World Cup title defense alive.

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Jul 7 • 2:44 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
World Cup 2026: Cape Verde's Vozinha frustrates Lionel Messi in heroic loss to Argentina

Vozinha entered the World Cup with 50,000 Instagram followers. He is up to 18.4 million after Cape Verde's loss.

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Milwaukee Brewers' Joey Ortiz Delivers Heroics in Late Innings

Facing roster pressure after a top prospect's arrival, the infielder silenced critics with a clutch eighth-inning blast to secure a vital victory and solidify his place with the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Jun 30 • 10:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Winning Before Kickoff: The science behind success at the 2026 FIFA World Cup

The World Cup is usually remembered for what happens after the whistle: the impossible assist, the heroic save, the deflection that turns a nation’s hope into heartbreak. But in 2026, some of the most important contests may be decided before kickoff, in training rooms, recovery suites, flight schedules, hydration plans, and cooling protocols. Science cannot eliminate soccer’s glorious unpredictability, but it can help teams survive it.

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Jun 29 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • acsh.org
Blue Reflection Quartet second trailer, pre-orders now available

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Gust have released the second official trailer and opened digital pre-orders for heroic RPG collection Blue Reflection Quartet.

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Jun 21 • 10:10 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Opinion | S​pectacular Scoring! ​Political Intrigue! Heroic Defending! The World Cup Has It All​.

The history of global soccer, in some sense, is a history of the world’s political problems.

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Jun 19 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Cape Verde goalkeeper rockets past sports greats in Instagram followers after World Cup heroics

Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha has surpassed 13.5 million Instagram followers after his seven-save masterpiece against Spain at the FIFA World Cup.

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Jun 18 • 4:43 PM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com
In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe

In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. Scott told us that this was the 400th edition of his podcast, which is quite a number: My friend Francesco Chiamulera runs a brilliant series of literary events, Una Colline di Libri, A Hill of Books, in the Prosecco Hills, a region of vineyards and elegant hill towns in the Veneto, north of Venice. We did an event in Vittorio Veneto and also drove and biked around the countryside. Buy Autocracy Inc Buy Iron Curtain Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Jun 13 • 4:15 AM EDT • Politics • anneapplebaum.substack.com
Packers’ rookie a rising star during minicamp practices

The Packers spent this offseason revamping the defense. From selecting Dani Dennis-Sutton in the fourth round to bolster the pass rush, getting more experienced at linebacker, by trading for veteran Zaire Franklin, to investing Green Bay’s first pick of the draft, in the second round, in cornerback Brandon Cisse, the Packers’ defense will look much [...]

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Why Packers’ Jordan Love ‘needs’ a Super Bowl in 2026

The concept is a simple one for the Packers, and 31 other teams across the NFL, of course each franchise is chasing a Super Bowl ring in 2026. Green Bay, by virtue of having a still ascending franchise quarterback at the helm, boasting one of the truly elite and most disruptive edge rushers in the [...]

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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave boxart, screenshots

Following today’s Nintendo Direct, the official boxart has come in for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave. We also have a new set of screenshots. Here’s an overview of the game: The Heroic Games are about to begin! A brand-new entry in the Fire Emblem series is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 system. Discover an intertwining story of strength and steel...

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Jun 9 • 11:06 AM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
Abdul Carter Suffers Gruesome Injury At Practice (Breaking News)

New York Giants star pass rusher Abdul Carter suffered an injury at practice today that had fans and reporters taking notice. News of the injury was first reported early this afternoon and immediately went viral. This is what we know. Also Read: Dianna Russini Investigation Sparks Outrage, Details Released (Report) Giants’ Abdul Carter Suffers Brutal […] The post Abdul Carter Suffers Gruesome Injury At Practice (Breaking News) appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Kansas City Chiefs: ESPN Expert Drops Major Patrick Mahomes Prediction

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are once again entering a season with championship expectations, but one prediction has elevated the conversation surrounding the star quarterback even further. An NFL analyst recently projected that Mahomes will capture the third Most Valuable Player award of his career during the 2026 season, a forecast that underscores […] The post Kansas City Chiefs: ESPN Expert Drops Major Patrick Mahomes Prediction appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Breaking News: NFL Franchise To Move To New State (Report)

The NFL has learned that one of their historic franchises will officially have a new home. The bombshell news surfaced on Friday morning and has gone viral throughout the league. The NFL has not seen a team move locations since 2020 (the Raiders to Las Vegas) and 2016 (the Rams to Los Angeles). Now, there […] The post Breaking News: NFL Franchise To Move To New State (Report) appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Boston Celtics insider drops surprising Giannis Antetokounmpo reality check

The Boston Celtics have emerged as a potential wild card in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade conversation. Following Jaylen Brown’s unusual comments on Twitch after Boston’s postseason exit, some around the league have speculated that he may be open to seeking a situation where he can lead his own team. Antetokounmpo has also been mentioned as [...]

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Dbacks Split! Dbacks 3, Dodgers 2

The Dbacks were able to split the series with the Dodgers Thursday night thanks to some late inning heroics from none other than Ketel Marte and some terrific pitching from Ryne Nelson and the bullpen. The Dbacks offense was stymied once again for 7 innings until Corbin Carrol hit a home run in the 8th […]

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Jun 5 • 12:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jacksonville Jaguars: Sign Experienced Corner with 31 Regular-Season Starts

The Jacksonville Jaguars still needed to address their cornerback depth this offseason after losing Greg Newsome II to the New York Giants and failing to select one in the 2026 NFL Draft. Travis Hunter is recovering from a season-ending LCL tear and has been limited to individual drills off to the side during OTAs but […] The post Jacksonville Jaguars: Sign Experienced Corner with 31 Regular-Season Starts appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Jun 4 • 4:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wisconsin Badgers pushing to complete another massive 2027 commitment flip

The Wisconsin Badgers’ staff has been on a tear in the recruiting department recently and another potential commitment could be coming. The staff has been working diligently this off-season to build a substantial 2027 class after stringing together limited success in the previous classes since hiring Head Coach Luke Fickell. A new college landscape and [...]

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Jun 4 • 11:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Packers’ Keisean Nixon facing backlash after blunt words for Bears

The 2026 NFL season is still months away, but the rivalry between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears never stops. It simply does not take a pause. Just recently, Packers defensive back Keisean Nixon further fueled that with a statement on Chicago. Via Dave Schroeder of WBAY-TV: Keisean Nixon on the Bears: “Free [...]

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Jun 4 • 10:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Around the MHS

This edition of news from around the Military Health System for the week of June 1-5, 2026, includes more coverage from the 2026 MHS Conference: awards for exceptional military medical professionals, Uniformed Services University’s spotlight on readiness, and inspirational words from a heroic Medal of Honor recipient.

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Jun 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • health.mil
Milwaukee Brewers: 2026 team continues to defy conventional logic

Every year, the story repeats: the Milwaukee Brewers are projected to be around .500 at the end of the year. Their tendency to trade away top talent is going to catch up to them. They will maybe win 80 games, but there is no way that they will be one of the best teams in [...]

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Jun 3 • 11:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Vaughn Grissom's late grand slam lifts Angels over Tigers

Looking to build momentum from a weekend series sweep, the Los Angeles Angels did just that in their series opener against the Detroit Tigers, extending their win streak to four in a 10-6 victory that saw late game heroics on Tuesday night at Comerica Park.

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May 26 • 9:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The 9th Inning Heroics Continue: Dbacks 2, Rockies 1

On Thursday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks were able to begin the weekend series against the Colorado Rockies with a walkoff win to push the team’s winning streak to a season-long 5 games. This team has now won 9 of their last 12 games. This game was won due to the continued success of this Arizona […]

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May 22 • 12:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Sox offense, bullpen suffer jet lag in 6-1 setback

No late-inning heroics were destined on the road trip opener in Seattle

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May 19 • 1:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Checking in with Dodgers relievers Will Klein, Wyatt Mills

With the Dodgers on a three-city road trip to Anaheim, San Diego, and Milwaukee, here are a few leftover tidbits from the last homestand at Dodger Stadium. Toast of the town First, I spoke with reliever Will Klein, who has kept his late-season surge and World Series heroics going in the early part of the […]

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May 16 • 1:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Q&A: Changing the basic conditions under which rural care is delivered

Dr. Hamad Husainy says America's rural providers are doing heroic work with outdated systems, fractured communication and too little support. Meaningful transformation is possible, he says, but will require more than new technology.

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May 15 • 11:44 AM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com
James Harden bounces back with 4th-quarter heroics in Cavaliers' Game 3 win vs. Pistons: 'What chatter?'
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May 9 • 6:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
🗞️ Scandal in Munich and Parisian ecstasy, Thursday's front pages

The morning breaks over two radically opposing footballing Europes. While in Paris the heroic resistance of Luis Enrique’s men is being celebrated, in Bavaria the feeling is one of absolute outrage ...

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May 7 • 2:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Gunther Werks 'Project Endgame' Turbo Speedster Is a Truly Heroic 911-Based One-Off

Gunther Werks doesn't want to name the owner, but I'm willing to bet they won't be too hard to unmask.

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Apr 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • roadandtrack.com
Steve Guttenberg broke into elderly couple's home and carried them out to save them from Palisades fire

Steve Guttenberg's tales of heroics during the 2025 Palisades fire continue, as the 'Police Academy' star opens up about breaking into an elderly couple's home and carrying them out during the blaze.

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Apr 15 • 9:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Reach Heroic Heights in Reign of Talon

The climb continues as a new Hero rises and the fight for a better future pushes Overwatch higher than ever.

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Apr 13 • 1:30 PM EDT • Technology • news.blizzard.com
Bartholomew’s heroics save Cyclones in rivalry game

IOWA CITY — While the rain appeared heavy at times on the Big Ten Network stream it was a case of “when it rains, it pours” as Iowa State (23-15, 4-8 Big 12) and Iowa (21-17, 5-10 Big Ten) combined for five home runs, punctuated by Reagan Bartholomew’s game-winning two-run homer to deep center field […]

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Apr 8 • 8:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Fans gather at Heroics Sports Lounge for NCAA women's basketball championship game

Fans gathered at Heroics Sports Lounge to celebrate UCLA's historic win the NCAA women's basketball championship.

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Apr 6 • 3:12 PM EDT • Sports • kcci.com
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Why 'Paradise' Is The Most Addictive Show On TV & Everything We Know About Season 3

From Xavier's heroics to Sinatra's sacrifice, Paradise Season 2 ended with a bang. Here’s everything we know about Season 3.

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Apr 3 • 6:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • refinery29.com
Nashville Predators Avoid Near Collapse In Shootout Win Over Kings

Evangelista's shootout heroics secured a dramatic win after Nashville squandered a three-goal lead, pushing past the Kings in a thrilling eight-round conclusion.

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Apr 3 • 2:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Happy Valley Rewind: Penn State-Iowa 2017

We continue our “Happy Valley Rewind” series by looking back at a spectacular Saquon Barkley game that ended with the heroics of Trace McSorley and Juwan Johnson. The full game can be viewed here:

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Mar 28 • 10:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lakers player grades: Luke Kennard gives L.A. ninth straight win

The Lakers defeated the Magic for their ninth straight win thanks to Luke Kennard's heroics at the end of the game.

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Mar 21 • 10:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Nebraska Baseball Upsets #7 Auburn 9-8 in Extra Innings

Late inning heroics by Carey and Jesske were enough to outlast the Huskers’ closing woes.

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Feb 28 • 1:14 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Last-second heroics keep No. 21 Miami unbeaten

Trey Perry’s basket with 0.4 seconds helped Miami complete a 69-67 come-from-behind win over West Michigan.

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Feb 27 • 11:03 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Celebrate The Legend of Zelda's 40th Anniversary with these heroic goodies

Rule Hyrule with some of the best merchandise out there.

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Feb 17 • 1:00 PM EST • Technology • creativebloq.com
Israel’s war on Gaza’s healthcare continues in full force under ‘ceasefire’

Israel continues to target Gaza's heroic medics, while tens of thousands of patients remain trapped without treatment.

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Feb 6 • 7:29 AM EST • Health • aljazeera.com
'Masterpiece' war film better than Saving Private Ryan is streaming for free

"One of the best war movies ever made" that's based on a heroic true story is ready to watch.

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Jan 11 • 2:00 PM EST • Entertainment • express.co.uk
Des Moines sports bar dedicated to women's sports to host lounge launch party

Heroics Sports Lounge is found in the old Juniper Moon space at 2005 Ingersoll Avenue. It opened its doors last weekend, but the launch party is Jan. 17.

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Jan 10 • 11:42 PM EST • Sports • kcci.com
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Minnesota prosecution of ICE officer faces new political obstacles under Trump

The Trump administration made its opinion known almost immediately after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday: The officer acted heroically in defending himself from Renee Nicole Good, who was intent on running him over with her Honda Pilot in an act of “domestic terrorism.” “The officer, fearing for his […]

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Jan 9 • 9:37 AM EST • Politics • minnesotareformer.com
10 Goldman Sachs leaders share the books and podcasts that made them smarter in 2025

From biographies to stories of wartime heroics, Goldman Sachs leaders share the books and podcasts that shaped their thinking in 2025.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 7:09 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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Against Iran’s politics of exclusion, pluralism is the point

There is a cruel ritual in Iranian opposition politics: some voices abroad constantly interrogate the “purity” of activists inside—why they did not speak more sharply or endorse maximalist slogans, why survival itself looks insufficiently heroic.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 2:25 PM EST • Politics • iranintl.com