Jeremiah Jacques

Japanese officials unveiled a plan on June 4 to rebrand the “Nanjing Massacre” in one of the nation’s most important museums as the “Nanjing Incident,” in the latest sign of modern Japan whitewashing its World War ii-era atrocities. The proposal by Nagasaki city government officials to administrators of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum comes in advance of a major renovation project that will begin in September.

“War is closer than ever,” Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said after being forced to shelter in an underground bunker in her nation’s capital last month. She and thousands of other Lithuanians moved to protected locations on May 20 after unauthorized attack drones entered their airspace, setting off air raid sirens and prompting authorities to scramble nato jets and issue evacuation warnings. But it turned out that the drones weren’t flying in from an enemy nation.

Over the last two decades, social media has come to be seen as the default setting of youth. For younger generations, platforms such as Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and X are not merely tools but social infrastructure—platforms where trends are minted, relationships are maintained, worldviews coalesce, and identities are forged. Yet a small but notable countertrend has emerged. More and more young people are experimenting with partial or total withdrawal from these platforms.