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When we think of film piracy, we usually picture a victim with a very fat wallet. A Bollywood blockbuster drops on a Friday. By midnight, a grainy, camcorded version hits a torrent site and an HD print in just a few days. Millions of people watch it on their phones for free. The studio’s opening weekend numbers dip, a billionaire producer fumes in a Mumbai boardroom, and highly paid actors miss out on a fraction of their profit-sharing checks. This is the conventional narrative of piracy. It is neat, predictable, and entirely incomplete. The true cost of film piracy doesn’t…

For as long as I have lived in Europe and the United Kingdom, I have been asked the same question: “Why don’t you move to…

For decades the rules of war seemed clear. If the United States entered a conflict, the outcome was rarely in doubt. The world’s largest military…

Many nations pursue foreign policy driven by ideology, religion, or identity. But the United States operates primarily as a capital-driven system. Presidents may change —…

The official narrative from Washington and the big media houses have spent the last week painting a picture of surgical precision and total air dominance.…