Five Things That Mattered This Week | Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, Georgia, Oil, Drones & Tankers, Coalition of the Willing, Art, and Always So Much More

It's Friday again. Venezuela in civil disruption, uprisings continue to rage in Iran, Greenland still in the crosshairs, oil all over the place, a Russian journalist fell from a window, art and more.

We're in the beating heart of our first weeks of 2026 and the drama, intrigue and mayhem are as predicted. We’ve crossed so many rubicons, we’ve lost count. We’re, collectively, being battered left and right.

Venezuela is in apparent turmoil with ‘colectivos’ exacting justice on the streets, the uprisings in Iran rage on as vast swaths of society take t…