When Europe’s leaders gathered in Yerevan, Armenia, in May, the sharpest words about Europe’s view of the South Caucasus came from a leader who was not in the room. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking by video link from Baku, used his allotted time at the European Political Community summit to rebuke the European Parliament for […]
Congress is about to approve millions in federal spending that will teeter on the edge of compromising decades of scientific progress. S. 2898, the Dennis John Benigno Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act, requires the study of long-term effects of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, but its current draft undermines the very science it intends […]
On Sept. 23, a brigadier general advising the Houthi-run Defense Ministry gave an interview to Agence France-Presse and described the war’s architecture better than most analysts have. “The militias and Iran form one alliance and one body,” Abed Mohammed al Thawr said. There is “joint coordination and cooperation between us, Iran and Lebanon, represented by […]
President Donald Trump took a bold step against left-wing, liberal bias in the media this month when he prohibited the political publication Politico and cable outlets CNN and MS Now from the White House grounds. The ban, while unquestionably warranted, was predictably short-lived, as Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington ruled […]
In Iron Man (2008), an American industrialist says to an Asian warlord, “Technology. It’s always been your Achilles’ heel in this part of the world.” While that may not always have been true, it certainly has been for the last 600 years or so. The Chinese had ships much larger than Columbus ever did, but […]
The U.N. General Assembly adjourned Friday, leaving behind a trail of unpaid parking tickets, untipped maitre D’s, and the stench of its deeply venomous hatred for the United States and our allies. It’s nothing new. The United Nations is united only in its despising of everything we stand for — freedom, democracy, capitalism, and Judeo-Christian […]
Eighty-four days passed between an OpenAI research agent’s unauthorized access to an Australian government health statistics portal on June 18 and the notice that reached Services Australia on Sept. 10. OpenAI detected the activity on Aug. 11, meaning roughly a month also passed between the company’s discovery and the government’s notification. Australian officials say there […]
When the Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday, America’s manufacturers will be watching one case that will have massive implications for job growth and business investment in communities across the nation. In this case, Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the justices will consider whether state and local governments can use state lawsuits to […]
For once, Kamala Harris didn’t misspeak. The former vice-president-turned-failed-presidential-candidate recently appeared with Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed. She vigorously defended the divisive and discriminatory ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” saying that the “attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care,” and especially “black women.” These words betray two things that ought to […]
Few Americans know that on July 2, 1866, Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel P. Banks introduced H.R. 754 to annex British North America. Washington had just concluded the “Reciprocity Treaty,” so Banks considered it ideal to offer markets and citizenship in exchange for soil. Congress ultimately tabled the bill, but the raw geopolitical threat forced a Canadian […]
Geopolitical history shows that maritime charts follow guns, not forgettable diplomatic press releases. By discarding decades of State Department passivity, President Donald Trump can stamp his name on the Strait of Hormuz permanently. Ultimately, the sovereign power that physically occupies the rugged Musandam Peninsula dictates the geography of global commerce — leaving Washington to either […]
The multiday White House extravaganza welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington featured an opulent state dinner, a private tea meeting, and fighter jet flyovers. Watching the diplomatic pageantry, one could easily forget that the United States and China are locked in a tense, existential cold war over the ultimate military high ground: Earth’s orbit. […]
Ten years ago, I deployed to a small Soviet-era training base in western Ukraine. My unit was there to train the Ukrainian Armed Forces on NATO doctrine and introduce them to American weapons systems and intelligence assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion was still six years away, but the Ukrainians knew something was coming. […]
Regime change is returning to the policy discussion over Iran, not as a call for another U.S.-led intervention but as a strategic question about whether lasting regional stability is possible while the political system at the center of repeated confrontation remains unchanged. The shift is increasingly visible. At this year’s U.N. General Assembly, Slovenian Prime […]
