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A photo illo illustration PunchUp of Donald Trump and Vietnamese refugees in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
REFUGEE BETRAYAL

Trump Deports Hundreds Who Fled War He Dodged

The president has targeted refugees from the war he weaseled out of.

Tom Latchem

Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.
BUSTED

Trump Goon Mistakenly Blows Up His Boast About Solving War

A Trump-brokered peace agreement appears to have fallen apart just as quickly as it came together.

Annabella Rosciglione

(L-R) US President Donald Trump holds a medal as he receives the FIFA Peace Prize from Italian Fifa President Gianni Infantino (out of frame) during the draw for the 2026 FIFA Football World Cup taking place in the US, Canada and Mexico, at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)
THAT WAS QUICK

Trump ‘Peace Deal’ Shattered Already by Cross-Border Attacks

Thai airstrikes on Cambodia and a land-mine blast injuring four soldiers tested Donald Trump’s vaunted peace deal.

Tom Latchem

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after presiding over the signing of a Cambodia-Thailand peace deal
BLOWN UP

Trump’s Peace Deal Blown Up by Landmine After 2 Weeks

Trump had called the accord a “momentous” occasion for the two countries.

Harry Thompson

Erika Kirk and Donald Trump
FAKING WINS

Desperate Trump, 79, Makes Up a War He’s ‘Solved’

The president falsely claimed he’d brokered peace between Cambodia and Armenia—countries 4,000 miles apart.

Tom Latchem

A rat sniffs for landmines.
SAVINGS LIVES

Landmine-Sniffing Rat Sets Guinness World Record

African pouched rat Ronin surpassed the previous record set by the “legendary” rat Magawa.

Erkki Forster

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A diptych of Henry Kissinger and fields exploding. Bombs are layered over both.
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THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS

Kissinger’s Cluster Bombs Are Still Killing People in Asia

A half-century after the war “ended,” people in Vietnam Laos, and Cambodia try to live their lives in a land riddled with unexploded ordinance that still kill and maim civilians.

Danae Hendrickson

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks to the news media after U.S. President George W. Bush named him to head a panel that will investigate the September 11 attacks, Nov. 27, 2002, at the White House.
ANGEL OR DEVIL

Henry Kissinger, Architect of U.S. Policy, Dies at 100

The Realpolitik operator re-opened China for Nixon and found détente with the Soviets—and sent incalculable numbers of Americans, Vietnamese, and other human beings to their death.

Andrew Nagorski

Chickens are seen in a contaminate farm while workers from the Animal Protection Ministry prepare to cull them to contain an outbreak of bird flu, at a farm in the village of Modeste, Ivory Coast, August 14, 2015.
NEW MENACE

11-Year-Old Girl Dies From Bird Flu in Cambodia

It’s the first known human case of bird flu in the country for almost a decade.

Dan Ladden-Hall

Hun Sen
SILENCED

Cambodia’s Leader Axes Independent Local News Outlet

The Cambodian prime minister accused the Voice of Democracy of trying “to attack” him and his son.

AJ McDougall

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APPALLING

Cambodia Casino Fire Death Toll Hits 27 as More Bodies Found

More than 20 others are still missing.

Dan Ladden-Hall

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