The Los Angeles Lakers have always been more than a basketball team; they are a family heirloom, a glittering piece of California royalty passed down through the Buss dynasty. But behind the championship banners and courtside celebrities, the family that owns the franchise is now locked in a bitter, public war. Earlier this week, Jeanie Buss, the Lakers’ governor and the daughter of the late legendary owner Dr. Jerry Buss, filed a fiery response in Los Angeles Superior Court to a petition from her five siblings. The siblings had attempted to sell the Buss Family Trust’s remaining 17.8% minority stake…

There is a strange moment in the Swedish information landscape when you scroll from a right-wing nationalist site to a left-wing anti-imperialist blog and find yourself reading the same story, told in different voices, reaching the same conclusion. At least seven Swedish websites, aimed at audiences that would normally never agree with one another, have settled on a single message: NATO provoked Russia’s war, Ukraine cannot win, and Sweden should stop paying for it. The question is no longer whether that message is pro-Russian, because it clearly is. The question is how it got there, and why it feels so…