President Donald Trump is not a leader who thinks in shades of grey. He has sorted the United States’s allies, by and large, into two categories: those worthy of diplomatic energy and close military coordination, and those who are not. The European nations, excepting Poland, fall into the “not” box. The gung-ho Asian tigers — […]
In the past few days, we’ve witnessed the unsettling images of tens of thousands of Moroccans, young unemployed Muslim men, clambering over the barbed-wire fence border between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. The images conjure up several ironies of Spanish history — a reverse “Reconquista” of Spain whereby Muslims avenge the final […]
It has been 157 days since the United States initiated its military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The beginning of the Islamic regime’s war against the U.S., of course, really started on Nov. 4, 1979, when Iranian students, working under the auspices of the new regime, seized American hostages in the U.S. Embassy. […]
For years, the Iranian government has attacked Israel mainly through proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. More recently, it has launched direct, gratuitous strikes on the Middle East’s only relatively free country. If holding this regime accountable isn’t morally justified, there is no such thing as moral justification. There is also a utilitarian argument […]
Is there a war going on between the United States and China right now? Yes — but not the kind we’re used to labeling. There is no hot war in sight yet, no missiles flying, no declared front. And “Cold War 2.0,” the label most often reached for, doesn’t quite fit either. The original Cold […]
The midterm elections are upon us. As both parties scramble to make their last appeals to voters, they may be overlooking a key demographic among voting Americans — one that could have a significant affect on the outcome of the elections. Recent polling shows just how influential this new voting bloc could be. The question […]
Last week, BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, announced plans to sell its oil and natural gas business in the North Sea. The news was another sign that BP, which once rivaled oil and gas giants ExxonMobil and Chevron, can no longer be considered a globally significant energy company. Today, BP has a stock market capitalization of around […]
As President Donald Trump recently spoke of “good talks” with Iran, Tehran publicly hanged Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi and Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani in Isfahan. Iran’s judiciary said the two men helped kill four police officers, burn a police station, and damage public property during January’s nationwide uprising. The charges are grave. So are the due-process […]
“We will fight with every measure of our strength and with every ounce of our energy to lift up the working men and working women of America,” President Donald Trump said when he launched his reelection campaign in 2022. Two years later, at the Republican National Convention, Trump made the same promise: “To all of […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly called President Trump on Saturday and implored him to hold off on striking the Islamic Republic...
The California Democratic Party has endorsed Proposition 40, the proposed billionaire wealth tax. The most interesting part of that decision, however, was not who...
