When Barack Obama was president and feuding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while apologizing to Arab potentates about America’s history in the region, a friend offered an observation.
The Democratic Socialists of America has imagined a future in which the bills disappear. “You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord,” its 2026 program declares. Its housing agenda calls for publicly owned construction, tighter regulation of investment properties, and universal rent control. For people struggling to afford an apartment, that is an attractive […]
Higher education today is reeling from multiple crises. From the incursion of artificial intelligence into the classroom, to the crackdown on research funding by the Trump administration, the skyrocketing cost of college, and the decline in trust from the American public, it is hard to know what university leaders can do to restore their institutions […]
On Sept. 18, the White House issued a fact sheet announcing an executive order renewing the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump first imposed on all newly issued H-1B visas last September. That fee was initially upheld by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., and collected for months, but a federal judge in Massachusetts later reached […]
Almost every signal from Washington says the same thing: nothing big happens in Iran before the midterm elections. In late September, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump had rejected Tehran’s seven-day ceasefire plan and told aides he expects to resume bombing after the Nov. 3 vote. At the United Nations, he said […]
Information warfare is often understood as the dissemination of falsehoods intended to portray an adversary as weak, wrong, or wicked. But some of the most consequential information contests today are not simply over facts; they are battles over interpretation. Who started the crisis? Who won the battle? What is the Chinese translation of an agreed […]
Imagine sitting on an airplane at 34,000 feet. Breakfast has been served. You are flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv with more than 170 other people, most of them Israelis. Then the plane drops. Not turbulence. Not a little shake. It plunges thousands of feet. People scream. Something is happening near the cockpit. Eventually, passengers […]
