Each September, the world's leaders gather beneath the same roof to remind themselves they share a planet — and this year, the reminder carried an unusual weight of doubt. At the United Nations General Assembly, the institution itself became the subject under examination, with a broad and ideologically diverse chorus of voices questioning whether an organization born from the ashes of one catastrophe is equipped to prevent the next. The UN was never designed to govern the world, only to give the world a place to speak; the crisis of this moment is that speaking, for many, no longer feels like