Ukraine's systematic drone campaign against Russian oil refineries and fuel depots is now forcing export bans, rationing and spreading shortages on the Russian dide. Meanwhile a new military-industrial dynamic, joint Ukrainian-European arms production based on Ukrainian designs, is shifting the balance of supply on the Ukrainian side. Against this backdrop, Mikael Hertoft surveys the state of the war as of early June 2026, examines Russia's collapsing territorial gains despite undiminished (…)

THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATED on Sunday against the KMT's cuts to defense spending, which reduced spending from 1.25 trillion NT to 780 billion NT. The main organizer of the demonstration was the Economic Democracy Union, the politically progressive social movement organization that played a key role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement and 2024 Bluebird Movement. Organizers claimed that 8,000 attended. The protest began at the SOGO outside of the Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT and progressed eastward through (…)

TAIWANESE CIVIL SOCIETY groups called for the release of Hong Kong activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung on June 1st outside of Taipei's Ximending shopping district. Lee and Chow were respectively the chair and vice chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The group was the primary organizer of the rallies held in Victoria Park annually to commemorate the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre each year on June 4th. Such rallies (…)

Major new research on the lives of immigrants and their descendants sheds light on the “diversity within the diversity” of French society. Around one in three adults under 60 in France has a family link to immigration within the past three generations. But this study, which is unprecedented in its scale, also reveals the persistent inequality and discrimination that immigrants have to endure in France. AFrench society that is “intertwined”, “kaleidoscopic”, “diverse” and increasingly (…)

Les Gelechiidae forment une des familles les plus importantes de lépidoptères en nombre d'espèces (plus de 4500 sur le globe). En Europe, cette famille regroupe le plus grand nombre d'espèces de microlépidoptères soit près de 900 ! Si les Gelechiidae ont été peu étudiés par absence de littérature de référence jusque vers la fin du XXe siècle, les ouvrages actuels comblent heureusement ces anciennes lacunes. Les adultes sont de taille petite à très petite, L'envergure alaire dépasse (…)

Rigoureux et inédit par son ampleur, ce nouvel ouvrage de référence sur les trajectoires des personnes immigrées et de leur descendance permet d'observer les « diversités dans la diversité » au sein de la société française et de mettre au jour la persistance des inégalités et discriminations. Une société française « entremêlée », en « kaléidoscope », « diversifiée », « mélangée » : voilà le champ lexical qui émerge du deuxième volet de la grande étude « Trajectoires et origines » (« TeO (…)