Oman’s strategy of calculated neutrality has run out of road. Long celebrated as a quiet diplomatic bridge between Washington and Tehran, Muscat has shattered its careful balancing act. A desperate attempt to revive a paralyzed shipping economy has transformed Oman into a central participant in a military conflict between the United States and Iran. The […]
I would love to think that Mark Zuckerberg saw the light. Meta, Zuckerberg’s massive tech company that owns Facebook and Instagram, agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 47 state attorneys general who had sued the company for deliberately addicting children to its products. In addition to the financial penalties, Meta agreed to implement features […]
A new study conducted by the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federations of North America shows a devastating growth in the acceptance of antisemitism in the U.S., and around the world. Their research has found that 57% of Jewish Americans now “consider antisemitism a normal part of the Jewish experience.” Following the devastating Oct. 7 Hamas infiltration […]
The Congressionally-mandated State Department policy review for Somaliland is well underway. It is long overdue. For decades, the State Department’s approach to Somalia was both ineffective and divorced from reality. As Somaliland grew its democracy, ambassadors like Donald Yamamoto and Larry André, Jr., undercut it by enforcing a “One Somalia” policy whose parameters represented more […]
Rural communities warned President Donald Trump that his unilateral trade war with the rest of the world would devastate farms, but Trump didn’t listen. Now, farmers face billions of dollars in losses, and the president is promising a bailout. However, the federal accounts built to aid farmers are low, and Trump needs a cash infusion […]
After the Taliban returned the wrongfully detained American Amir Amiry to the United States on Sept. 28, news of further prisoner trades has percolated. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Amiry’s release was “an important step forward” to getting freedom for “additional Americans unjustly detained in Afghanistan.” At the time of Amiry’s release, a U.S. official told […]
Actress Olivia Cooke has a knack for playing the social climber. In 2018, she embodied Becky Sharp in an adaptation of William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, wielding charm and wit to seduce her way into the upper class. Now, in Amazon Prime’s 2025 miniseries The Girlfriend, Cooke plays Cherry Laine, a similarly ambitious daughter of a London middle […]
Is it worth shutting down the government to keep billions in federal cash flowing to health insurers? That’s a question Republicans should be asking Democrats every chance they get. The minority party has brought business in Washington to a halt as part of a wrongheaded strategy to obscure the out-of-control growth in health insurance costs […]
The failure of public school education for underprivileged minority children without political connections is the greatest civil rights scandal of our time.
A federal judge on Saturday issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump from sending Oregon’s National Guard to Portland to defend federal agents...
As the government shutdown continues, the media seems fixated on one Republican talking point: That the Democrats want health- care benefits for illegal immigrants....
Twenty minutes ago, Pete Hegseth was opining on heavy duty things like congestion pricing. Now, this Douglas MacArthur-lite TV talker’s commanding the greatest smartest toughest army...
