Tehran’s maritime foothold in northern South America is not an improvised gambit; it is the calculated maturation of an architecture drafted two decades ago. In 2006, Iran and Venezuela formalized a joint shipping and petrochemical pact engineered expressly to move crude beyond Western financial clearinghouses. That arrangement quickly supplied the corporate blueprint for a constellation […]
We are now a nation of gamblers. Sports betting was once relegated to casinos and local bookmakers. Today, apps have put a 24-hour sportsbook directly into the pockets of Americans. This shift carries acute risks for service members and veterans. A month after 9/11, one of us, David Yeager, deployed to a U.S. base in […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s message to the G7 — that Washington intends to maintain severe economic pressure on Iran — has an audience beyond the diplomats gathered in Paris. It also matters to the people inside Iran’s security establishment who may someday have to choose between protecting the regime and abandoning it. For an […]
In the immediate fallout of the bruising midterm election results, President Donald Trump sat down with 60 Minutes and candidly diagnosed the primary culprit behind the Republican collapse: “bad messaging.” While voters expressed deep economic anxieties over persistent inflation and geopolitical overextension, the president insisted the underlying record remained strong. His structural solution arrived almost […]
Rep. Randy Fine compared JD Vance's post-midterm election analysis to 1932 Germany, saying the vice president tacitly blamed Jewish people for GOP losses.
Amy Klobuchar's push for Minnesota gun safety legislation drew fierce conservative backlash over a bill that would ban AR-15 sales and limit magazines.
The financial markets are increasingly concerned about true demand for the computing services that are at the heart of the AI revolution. Anthropic, a leading developer of frontier AI models, is expected to go public next week. It will be valued at around $1.4 trillion, which sounds fantastic. The problem? The expected valuation has dropped […]
Buried in the coverage of Judge Darrin Gayles’s dismissal of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal was one factoid emblematic of the country’s obsession with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump sued the outlet when it broke a front-page story about an album celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday that apparently […]
