Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 17, 2026
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Lundi 17 Août 2026 | Monday, August 17, 2026Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”
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Bonjour et bon lundi! It's Monday, which means it's Major Content Curation Day — today's edition spans World Affairs, Diplomacy, Technology, Science, and Motorsport. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.
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Unfit to Be President — Stress-Testing the Republic
A felony conviction, two impeachments, a dropped federal prosecution, a war that sent gas prices soaring, and a movement's most dangerous fringe — a documented case for why fitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief is, in 2026, a legitimate and urgent question. — ZACK TECHNOLOGY LLC
Major Content Curation: World Affairs, Diplomacy & Technology
- Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Congress wanted to make its job easier. It handed Trump a weapon. — MS NOW
- The Taliban are vile. Democracies must still engage with them — five years after America's exit, the Afghan regime is not going anywhere — The Economist
- Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is, for once, peaceful — also very hungry, poor and repressed — The Economist
- Can Zack Polanski do a Mamdani? — 1843 Magazine
- The Intelligence | Global news — Afghanistan, five years on: our correspondent visits — The Economist Podcasts
- Data — Do you think child care is too expensive? — The Economist Video
- Is it time to talk to the Taliban? — The Insider, The Economist
- What 60 Years of Data Reveals About How Men and Women Experience Leadership — Harvard Business Review
- Tupac murder trial: ‘All hell broke loose’ night of rapper's shooting, witness says — BBC
- Anthropic's Annualized Revenue Surpasses $65 Billion Before IPO — Bloomberg
- Trump approval falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency — Reuters
- Iran war live: Trump rejects MoU extension as US claims control of Hormuz — Al Jazeera
- When You Can't Afford to Be Sick: From hakims and shrines to the operating table — Afghanistan Analysts Network
- Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida — POLITICO
- Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote — The New Yorker
- Trump's dumb border wall — The Verge
- Why scientists are using cheap picnic coolers to protect some of the world's most endangered animals — Vox
- ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators — TechCrunch
- How kids feel about AI, in their own words — MIT Technology Review
- My parents thought I was wasting my life playing video games. I became a millionaire by 27. — Business Insider
- What is the culture of a city after dark? ADE and VibeLab's Nighttime Culture Index — global first, launching this October for 30 years of ADE — LinkedIn #ADE2026
- Trump dismisses USS Lincoln criticism and snaps at CNN reporter to ‘be quiet’ — The Guardian
- Kushner Meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem to Try to Break Logjam Over Gaza — The New York Times
- New Details Released Surrounding Death Of Hayden Panettiere — Huffington Post
- Even College Students Have Stopped Hanging Out — The Atlantic
- Judge blocks Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building — ABC News
- 60 days after signing Iran deal, Trump is stuck in a quagmire as war drags on — The Washington Post
- Why Le Pen's plan for a constitutional referendum would be ‘a coup d'état in form and content’ — Le Monde
- Inside the increasingly branded world of RushTok — Mashable
- Photos of Youngsters Competing to Dance the Most Irish — VICE
- A Democratic Socialist Aims to Oust a Top AIPAC Beneficiary in Florida — The Intercept
- The Dinosaurs That Went Extinct… Twice — Nat Geo
- Sen. Mark Kelly says USS Lincoln sailors ‘can't get basic needs met’ — NPR
- Local Artist Feature: Neoclassical Pianist and Composer Releases Sophomore Project — Cap Radio News
- Âge liminaire — Création originale pour « Manière de voir » — Le Monde diplomatique
- The Top 10 Ways Trump Has Made America Weaker — Foreign Policy
- Standing With Afghan Women — How to Support the Movement Resisting the Taliban's Extremism — Foreign Affairs
- What Trump's Executive Order Means for Childhood Vaccinations — CFR.org
- US bases ‘ill-equipped’ to stop drone attacks, NORAD deputy says — Task and Purpose
- Iran offers up to $60K bounty on US troops — Stars and Stripes
- Army Takes Action Against Chaplain Accused of Telling Black Captain He'd ‘Tie Her to Tree’ — Military.com
- In Afghanistan, Growing Resistance Meets Fears of Pakistani Influence — The Diplomat
- Inside Iran's New Wartime Leadership — The Cipher Brief
- L'Événement | Chine, France — Dominique de Villepin, diplomates, Europe : les connexions de Grandview Institution — Intelligence Online FR
- Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown — Quanta Magazine
- CERN's Long Shutdown 3: the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade underway — CERN
- US Spacewalk 97 — NASA's Anil Menon and ESA's Sophie Adenot to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna — NASA
- Watch Sophie Adenot's spacewalk live — ESA
- Stolen vehicles are often linked to wider organized crime networks and illicit spare parts can be substandard — INTERPOL
- The Future of NATO — with the U.S. pulling back, European partners face an urgent call to fill in the gaps — Air & Space Forces Magazine
Motorsport & Auto Corner
- The Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon Delivers Performance and Puzzlement — Road and Track #MercedesAMG
- ABT Sportsline's Audi RS Q8-LE 1000 Makes The Lambo Urus Seem Tame — Yahoo! Autos #ABT #AudiRS
- Porsche pays tribute to 100 years of the Nürburgring with a market edition 911 GT3 — Porsche #Porsche911GT3
- 2026 Nissan Z Nismo: Is the Extra Performance Worth the Premium? — Autoblog #NISMO
- Why Lamborghini Won't Attempt a Nürburgring Lap Record With the Revuelto SV — MotorTrend
From April Fools' Joke to Nürburgring Hero: The BMW M3 Touring 24H Story
Coffee with Zack ☕ — Lundi 17 Août 2026
What's up, everybody! It's Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 17, 2026. It's Monday, therefore it's Major Content Curation Day. Lots of news to get through.
I also want to thank The Economist magazine for having a special about Afghanistan — it means a lot, especially for a region forgotten by the rest of the world, after five years of a horrific Taliban regime.
While Mercedes-Benz brought the Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon to the United States, Audi RS promised new wagons for North America but the RS5 Wagon still isn't here, and neither is the RS4 nor the RS4 Wagon. People are impatiently waiting. Porsche hasn't made a new GTS Wagon in a while, and every BMW enthusiast is still trying to convince the BMW CEO in Germany to bring the M3 Touring to the USA with a new petition. As always, (M.A.P. B.) is hard at work.
I miss the Nürburgring in Germany so much. I hope to visit Super GT someday in Japan. There are rumors that Forza Horizon 6 will be released on PS5 in September — the world of JDM ought to be very excited.
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