On a late September day, Andriy Kovalenko made an announcement that was both professional and profoundly personal. After three years at the helm of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, a body operating under the National Security and Defense Council, he was stepping down. The news arrived in a characteristically understated way, through his own Telegram channel, and it came with a measure of grace: President Volodymyr Zelensky had already accepted his resignation. Kovalenko did not dwell on the reasons for his departure, nor did he offer a dramatic exit. Instead, he framed the decision as a natural transition, a moment…

Let’s not dance around what actually happened at Medinah. The scoreboard says 17-13, and the Americans are the ones holding the Presidents Cup trophy, but if you watched those four days and walked away feeling genuinely optimistic about United States team golf, you are lying to yourself. For three consecutive days, the International side outplayed, outworked, and outclassed the Americans. The U.S. looked disjointed in the team formats, lacked chemistry at key moments, and seemed to be running on reputation rather than results. Then Sunday arrived, the format shifted to 12 individual matches, and the dynamic changed completely. The Americans…