The Tally
On the morning after the midterms, EA WorldView’s front page carried two clocks. One read “Ukraine War, Days 1,713-1,714” (4 November 2026). The other read “US War on Iran, Day 251” (same morning). That is the whole method, sitting there in the headline. Donald Trump speaks in durations that do not exist, “two weeks” and “very soon” and “the regime will fall,” and Scott Lucas answers with an integer that only goes up. Two wars, two counts, published every day by a volunteer newsroom and a professor who has been doing this long enough that the number is now larger than most people’s memory of why it started. ...