The U.S. Supreme Court very recently granted certiorari in Suncor Energy v. Boulder on the question of whether federal law preempts Boulder’s state-law tort claims for alleged injuries from purported interstate/international greenhouse gas emissions. Before the court hears the case, however, let’s examine the outsize yet mostly unknown influence fomenting this litigation that the Environmental Law […]
Last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development was absorbed into the Department of State. We assume this isn’t news to any readers. As USAID’s former administrator under the first Trump administration and a former member of the House Appropriations Committee, we understand the importance of these programs and are often asked: Is America really […]
The war with Iran is testing the Gulf States’ long-standing strategy to maintain their delicate balance between Washington and Tehran. For years, the Gulf States have largely maintained a strategy of “strategic ambiguity” when it comes to Iran. While these states rely heavily on the American security umbrella and share concerns about Iran’s regional ambitions, […]
Iran is once again attacking its neighbors. In recent days, Tehran has launched drones and missile attacks at Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar, just as it did in the war’s opening days. And for the second time, NATO intercepted an Iranian missile over Turkish airspace. Some have found the […]
Ask a mainstream journalist why President Donald Trump was elected, and you’ll probably get some version of the same answer: The 45th and 47th president was only elected because a lot of Republicans are rotten. The media are right about the rotten part. But they’re accusing the wrong Republicans. Trump captured, and still dominates, the hearts and […]
It’s all caught on video: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arriving at the Turkish ambassador’s residence during a 2017 visit to the United States. Across the street in Sheridan Circle, just half a mile from Dupont Circle, Americans of Kurdish, Armenian, and Turkish descent protested Turkey’s human rights abuses and its denial of the Armenian […]
By his own statements, it’s safe to assume New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent a lot of his misspent education reading Trotsky and Guevara while skipping the likes of Le Carre, Jung, and Shakespeare. The latter’s Iago, the greatest villain in the gathered history of drama, is well on his way to deceiving and […]
One might have thought the campus chaos that followed Oct. 7, 2023, would force a moment of academic sobriety. After the massacre in Israel, the country watched elite universities descend into moral confusion — students chanting slogans they barely understood, administrators hiding behind procedural evasions, and faculty members serving not as guides but as accelerants. […]
The United States and Israel continue to pummel the tyrannical regime in Iran. Its leadership has been more than decimated. Its “supreme leader,” Ali Khamenei, was killed in the opening salvo. The U.S. has control of Iranian airspace and Tehran’s navy is “effectively neutralized,” said Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. […]
