TodayWhy Editorial 
Greater Manchester is heading into an unplanned mayoral by-election on July 30, 2026, after Andy Burnham gave up the post to take his seat in Parliament. The vacancy is a direct consequence of Burnham’s decisive win in the June 18 Makerfield by-election, and it marks the first time anyone other than Burnham has held the … Read more
As Belgium’s “Red Devils” play through Group G at the 2026 World Cup, you may run across an old nickname for their home country that has nothing to do with aviation: the “Cockpit of Europe.” It sounds strange until you learn the original meaning of the word “cockpit” — and once you see why historians … Read more
Germany’s 2-1 comeback win over Ivory Coast at the 2026 World Cup — sealed by substitute Deniz Undav’s stoppage-time winner — has put one detail back in the spotlight: the team plays under two names that don’t quite match. English commentary calls them “Ivory Coast.” Their own shirts, and FIFA’s official broadcasts, say “Côte d’Ivoire.” … Read more
Britain has gone through prime ministers faster than almost any other stable democracy in modern history. Since 2016 alone, the country has had five different occupants of 10 Downing Street — and a sixth change is now underway, with Keir Starmer having confirmed his resignation on 22 June 2026 and Andy Burnham the clear favourite … Read more
As Keir Starmer’s premiership hangs by a thread, one name keeps surfacing as his most likely successor: Andy Burnham. The Greater Manchester mayor just won a parliamentary seat in a by-election explicitly engineered to bring him back to Westminster — the first time that’s happened in Britain since 1965. Here’s who he is, how he … Read more
The memorandum that Presidents Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian signed on June 17 is unambiguous on one point: the war is over “on all fronts, including in Lebanon.” Within 48 hours, Israel’s military announced four soldiers killed in a Hezbollah attack, Israeli forces were filmed crossing back into northern Israel from the south, and a sitting … Read more
On July 19, 2026, when the two finalists walk off the pitch at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey after 45 minutes of football, they will return to the locker room to find something no World Cup finalist has ever had to contend with: a full-scale pop concert playing out on the pitch behind them. Madonna, … Read more
Two groups of people call Shen Yun a cult — and they mean different things by it. Understanding who is saying it, why, and what they offer is the only way to think clearly about one of the best performing arts companies in the world. TodayWhy examines both sources of the “cult” label on their … Read more
In the summer of 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched what would become the longest sustained campaign of religious persecution in modern Chinese history — targeting a meditation group that, by the government’s own earlier assessment, had done nothing but improve the health and morality of tens of millions of citizens: Falun Gong China. Twenty-seven … Read more
If you search for Falun Gong online, you will quickly encounter two sharply different characterizations: a persecuted spiritual movement whose practitioners have been tortured, imprisoned, and killed for their beliefs — or a dangerous “evil cult” that China was right to suppress. The gap between these descriptions is not a matter of interpretation. It is … Read more