While the American public remains fixated on daily domestic political disputes and legislative gridlock, a profound and highly strategic alignment is quietly shifting the balance of power in our hemisphere. The United States and Guatemala have forged an aggressive, deeply transactional security and economic partnership. By connecting the dots across recent diplomatic maneuvers, a clear […]
Throughout October, prediction markets gave Democrat Brad Lander a better than 96% chance of winning New York’s 10th Congressional District. With that cushion, you’d think he might spend the campaign’s closing days with the New Yorkers he’s about to represent, or knock on doors for Democrats in tighter races. You’d be wrong. Instead, Lander spent […]
Hell hath no fury like the Democratic political machine scorned by a woman. After nearly a decade of emphasizing the importance of protecting democracy, championing women’s empowerment, trusting all women, and elevating women’s voices in politics, Democrats made a stark, sudden pivot on Sunday, scolding, demonizing, and vilifying one of their own, Rep. Haley Stevens […]
While the strategic threats posed by the Fordow nuclear facility and Pickaxe Mountain are well-known fixtures of Western security debates, it is a dangerous oversight to ignore Eagle 44, an underground Iranian air force base engineered to withstand precision airstrikes and project lethal power directly over the Persian Gulf. Recent satellite imagery reveals that Tehran […]
The United States and Israel are in sync on Iran, only to the extent of 95%. What about the other 5%? Israel struck petroleum and gas infrastructure in Iran without U.S. involvement, without even prior White House knowledge. When the Israel Defense Forces attacked the South Pars gas field on March 18, President Donald Trump […]
The Pentagon recently designated China’s Confucius Institutes as national security threats. The Department of War’s decision is the right one, but more work remains to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s extensive influence on American soil. The CCP’s operations in the United States are as vast as they are pernicious. In his Oct. 23 remarks announcing […]
Over the closing stretch of the midterm campaign, President Donald Trump, who is 80, launched a 32-day blitz and at one point was scheduled for rallies in seven states in seven days. Whatever one thinks of what he says on those stages, the schedule itself is a data point. It sits awkwardly beside a story […]
On Oct. 27, I argued in these pages that Russian President Vladimir Putin got a diesel order and President Donald Trump got the calendar. Here is the calendar. On Oct. 8, Trump posted that he would not resume strikes on Iran before Nov. 3, Election Day. On Oct. 9, he announced that Putin had agreed […]
Do you know who has access to your health records? From diagnoses and prescriptions to test results and treatment plans, these records tell a deeply personal story — which is why health record privacy protections were a central part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when it was passed in 1996. Decades […]
Part of it is the "micromobility cult," an obsession with boosting every possible alternative to automotive traffic; part is the insane avoidance of anything...
“If we lost the House, the Senate and the presidency, our country is finished. Because these are lunatics you’re dealing with," President Trump warned.
For too long, United Nations secretaries-general have preferred to virtue-signal and jet-set around the globe rather than manage their organization. Current U.N. chief Antonio Guterres has taken about 190 official trips spanning nearly 900 days — the figure would be even higher without a dip during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pair each of these trips with […]
Recent reporting that QatarEnergy has begun buying long-term liquefied natural gas supplies from abroad as a hedge against another interruption through the Strait of Hormuz should be read as more than a business story. It is an acknowledgment that even one of the world’s largest energy exporters can no longer assume that its own physical […]
Iran’s next wheat harvest depends on more than improved rainfall. Wheat farmers told Iran International on Oct. 14 that delayed government payments left them short of cash to buy seed and fertilizer for autumn planting. Officials said most debts were settled and attributed some remaining delays to administrative discrepancies. For producers facing cash outlays now, […]
