That war ended in a humiliating defeat by an enemy regarded as much weaker, and many tsarist officials blamed the outcome on Japanese spies and saboteurs.
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Andrei Soldatov,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Aug. 2026
And Project Bond is joining quite the collection of spies—er, vessels—on the seas.
Group chats have—rightfully—earned a reputation as containers for gossips or for the airing of grievances that someone might not want to fully offer out loud to the public, and mine are not absent those things, from time to time.
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Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
28 Aug. 2026
Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.
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