In the center of Lebanon, New Hampshire, just a short walk from Colburn Park, there is a patch of Spencer Street that has held its breath for nearly a decade and a half. Once the home of the city’s public works department, the land became an unexplained silence in an otherwise active neighborhood when the department moved out fourteen years ago. Through those years, the lot waited through big bold ideas and quiet attempts, through plans that failed, financing that fell through, and contest and disappointment. It remained an open wound of possibility. But now, after all the obstacles, with…

In the relentless, grinding conflict that has defined Eastern Europe for years, the front lines are not merely drawn in trenches and minefields, but also in the ethereal realm of information, where a single image can sway an alliance and a well-timed lie can fracture a coalition. The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), a crucial arm of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has recently issued a stark and sobering warning that cuts through the fog of war, revealing a meticulously planned Russian operation designed to weaponize the most vulnerable individuals in any conflict: prisoners of war. This is not…