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Will the wars in Ukraine and Iran merge?
This is a fraught moment, perhaps the most dangerous since the end of the Cold War. Two major wars are…
Macron and his diplomats can’t help talking down Americans
Diplomatic relations between France and the USA are more strained than ever following a row at the United Nations. The…
Why aren’t American companies passing on tariff refunds?
Even for an economy as large as the United States, $70 billion still counts as a significant sum of money.…
The special counsel industrial complex
Special counsels have proven themselves, more often than not, to serve a hungry press corps happy to report salacious and…
E. Jean Carroll’s banana republic justice
E. Jean Carroll gets to keep her money. The Supreme Court has declined to review the $5 million sexual abuse…
Iran is a loser’s victory
After years of negotiations, two wars, a succession of ruthlessly quashed uprisings in Iran and countless billions of dollars’ worth…
For J.D. Vance, Israel is the new Ukraine
J.D. Vance didn’t call Benjamin Netanyahu out by name, but in sternly reprimanding the “Cabinet of the Israeli government” from…
Is Trump going to defund Israel?
Cutting US military aid to Israel was once an impossible dream of the most extreme fringe of the Democratic party.…
The uncomfortable truth about Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund
President Trump has faced relentless, extraordinary efforts to destroy him outside of heretofore normal political combat. The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago…
Why the Pentagon has Nigeria in its sights
For the Pentagon, Nigeria is firmly on the list of countries where terror has run amok. In 2025 and again…
No, I’m not a CIA spy in Greenland
The Danish media has accused me of being a US spy. They say I’m involved in a covert influence operation…
The Kremlin’s secret plans for post-war Russia
A top-level Kremlin policy document discussing post-war political planning and how to neutralize potential ultranationalist discontent has been leaked to…
Why Bermuda is loyal to the King
At St. Peter’s Church in St. George’s, Bermuda, the oldest Anglican church in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere, a…
What I heard inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The evening had started pleasantly enough. The most alarming thing about the party I was attending in the Hilton Hotel…
How the Pope should retaliate against Donald Trump
Imagine that Martin Luther had scrawled his 95 Theses on the back of a Denny’s menu and nailed it to…
If only TACO were true
A useful rule, when trying to understand current affairs, is AAL: Acronyms Always Lie. A case in point would be…
Will Trump really obliterate Iran on Tuesday?
Was Donald Trump’s profane and threatening tweet, which included an F-bomb and an allusion to Iran’s leaders as “crazy bastards,”…
Joe Kent’s resignation was an act of political positioning
Reflecting on the resignation of Cyrus Vance, James Thomson, the American historian and journalist, wrote in the Washington Post that…
Iran and the crisis in the European mind
The politics of the Iranian war feature an observable gap between interest and action for nearly all parties. The Americans…
Are the chips down for AI thanks to Iran?
While Americans anxiously watch the price of gasoline tick higher as the war in the Middle East squeezes the global…
I spent 25 years fighting neocons. Then Trump became one
Like everyone, I’m glued to the news coming out of Iran. I’m experiencing some depression, as one might, upon realizing…
The greater game: Trump’s ultimate target in this war is China
The United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei, and Xi Jinping’s decade-long project to build an alternative to the American-led…
Could Iran descend into civil war?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a man whose life has been defined by the harshness of his rhetoric against the West (specifically,…
Democrats are ill-advised to target MAHA in the midterms
In the unforgiving arena of American politics, few patterns are as reliable as the midterm election bloodbath for the party…
Did Billie Eilish get me deported?
For someone who believes that “no one is illegal on stolen land,” it’s a surprise that Billie Eilish’s legal team…
