Oman’s strategy of calculated neutrality has run out of road. Long celebrated as a quiet diplomatic bridge between Washington and Tehran, Muscat has shattered its careful balancing act. A desperate attempt to revive a paralyzed shipping economy has transformed Oman into a central participant in a military conflict between the United States and Iran. The […]
I would love to think that Mark Zuckerberg saw the light. Meta, Zuckerberg’s massive tech company that owns Facebook and Instagram, agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 47 state attorneys general who had sued the company for deliberately addicting children to its products. In addition to the financial penalties, Meta agreed to implement features […]
Turkey’s government is clarifying its 2024 priorities. Once again, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing an election. This time, it’s not for his own reelection as president, but an attempt to win back control over the country’s major cities — which he lost in 2019.
YEREVAN, Armenia — It is a nightmare scenario not only for the United States but also for countries bordering Russia. After blunting Russia’s initial assault and extracting hundreds of thousands of casualties from the Russian army, Ukraine is running out of steam. The conflict has frozen, and demography is on Russia’s side. Anti-Ukraine propaganda, Washington’s usual attention deficit disorder, and the White House's tendency to give Ukraine what it needs to fight but not what it needs to win combine to take a toll. In the U.S., strategic impatience and an unwillingness to sacrifice are our Achilles’ heel. For Russia, attrition and fear are given. Russians may resent the high cost of President Vladimir Putin’s folly, but they exert no democratic pressure on their ruler.
The negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans over a package of immigration provisions and new funding for Ukraine now put the border...
The ouster of diversity hire poster child Claudine Gay as the president of Harvard has prompted a wave of optimism that the pernicious diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracies that have become pervasive in higher education could face a reckoning.
Widespread violent crime has been a recurring issue for most in the country during President Joe Biden’s term. Images of rampant muggings, assaults, and shootings have dominated the news cycle since Jan. 20, 2021. Numerous cities have set records for homicides in a year since Biden was elected. In many ways, it should come as no surprise that a large number of voters in the country believe crime is still a problem, even if reports have suggested crime rates have started to decrease.
