A federal judge in Rhode Island handed property owners a rare and useful win last week, and the reasoning behind it deserves more attention than the case has gotten. In SCLS Realty, LLC v. Town of Johnston, Judge Melissa R. DuBose ruled that Johnston’s seizure of a 31-acre parcel off George Waterman Road was void […]

The Trump administration is once again negotiating over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said Saturday that an agreement with Oman is close, but that the deal alone would not reopen the waterway. Washington has said it would lift its blockade of Iranian ports if commercial shipping resumes.  The diplomacy captures the central problem of the […]

Russia has learned that influence can often achieve what occupation no longer can afford to. The Trump administration must be on notice. For centuries, geopolitical success meant armies crossing borders and imposing control by force. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows that model still works — but it also shows how expensive it has become. Occupation […]

Abdul el Sayed just won the most expensive Senate primary in American history, beating Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) by a single point, surviving roughly $65 million in outside spending. He is now the first Muslim American to win a major political party’s Senate nomination, and stands a few months away from becoming the first Muslim […]

Optimism about reaching a diplomatic solution to the Iran crisis is premature. No deal between Iran and Oman has been formally announced, but what we know is not promising. Indeed, allowing the Strait of Hormuz littoral states alone to conduct the negotiations is a fundamental challenge to freedom of the seas, a foundation of U.S. foreign […]

Israel is quietly executing a masterclass in geopolitical realism, while Western diplomats indulge in hand-wringing and empty rhetoric. Advanced Israeli weapon sales to Latin America are not simply commercial side deals. Today, Jerusalem’s defense exports function as a practical instrument for securing a hemisphere under growing pressure from a hostile revisionist axis.  That pressure is […]