Iranian Americans despise the Islamic Republic more than almost any group on earth. They fled it. They lost family to it. They protest against it every weekend in cities across America. They showed up to CPAC in numbers I have never seen at any political event, because Reza Pahlavi, the man who represents everything the […]
From May to July 1776, delegates from 13 disparate colonies sat in a stuffy room in Philadelphia, windows sealed against eavesdroppers, sweating through coarse wool coats in the summer heat. They disagreed about nearly everything. Thomas Jefferson’s elegant and inspired draft was sliced by a quarter in debate. Delegates from the South threatened to walk […]
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was created in March 1978 by Security Council Resolutions 425 and 426 after Israel’s Operation Litani. Its mandate required confirming Israeli withdrawal, restoring peace and security, and helping Beirut reassert sovereignty in the south. What began 47 years ago as a temporary buffer has mutated into an institutional […]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped in Armenia on May 26 (on his way back from an official visit to India) to meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan to sign the “Charter on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Republic of Armenia and the United States.” Rubio’s visit — the first by a U.S. […]
Emergency exits are not built after smoke fills a building. They are built while the hallways are still clear, the doors remain open, and the choice to leave is still a matter of free will — not panic. That lesson has stayed with me throughout my life. And today, watching the United States from the […]
Bus driver Jing Dong allegedly killed five people last week, including two children, when he plowed into other vehicles on I-95 in Virginia. Not only was the naturalized U.S. citizen from China unable to speak English, but he also refused an English proficiency test after the crash. So, what was he doing on our roads? […]
Keeping an NFL locker room cohesive and having players ready to battle for each other on Sundays in the fall and winter are crucial to NFL success. The New York Giants have decided to sabotage that because their quarterback has mainstream Republican political views. Jaxson Dart is supposed to be the team’s new franchise quarterback, […]
In May, Afghan Special Mission Wing pilot and U.S. asylee Wahidullah Wahdat learned that his wife was killed in a gunfight outside a money exchange in Kabul. The tragedy has now left Wahdat’s children, all under the age of 13, without parents inside Afghanistan. News of his wife’s death and Wahdat’s ties to the former […]
Our psychosis about racism after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman in 2020 has led to the reciprocal murder of a clean-cut young white man 4,000 miles away in England. On a city street last December, Vikrum Digwa, 23, murdered Henry Nowak, 18, with the kirpan dagger he carries as a […]
Stocks in the United States are trading near all-time highs as investors rush to take advantage of the artificial intelligence revolution. The AI revolution offers transformative technology that promises to increase the country’s long-term growth rate through sustained productivity improvements. But these aren’t the only stocks making news. Berkshire Hathaway announced a few days ago that it […]
Let’s start simply by listing some of what’s made Graham Platner one of the most stomach-turning political candidates in memory. Democrats seem set to choose the Maine “oyster farmer” and former Marine to try ousting five-term Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November’s midterm elections. If they do pick him, however, it will be despite knowing […]
