The joint U.S.-Israeli air campaign against Iran represents a genuine opportunity for long-term Middle Eastern stability. The early results are good. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead, as are dozens of senior Iranian military and political figures. The regime is already heavily decapitated in a way that is historically unusual. The hunt for Saddam Hussein […]
The current U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran reflects a shared judgment in Washington and Jerusalem: Constraining Tehran without threatening regime survival is no longer sustainable. For decades, Washington and its allies managed the Islamic Republic through sanctions, covert disruption, proxy containment, diplomacy, and calibrated force. These measures imposed costs while preserving the assumption that the regime […]
The United States is again in a Cold War, this time with China. Our enemies are doing all that they can to steal away the U.S.’s advantage. Those guilty of aiding and abetting U.S.’s enemies don’t deserve leniency. On Feb. 25, the Department of Justice announced that it had arrested a former Air Force officer, […]
Former Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) on Tuesday said he was stranded in Dubai, noting he was in the same position as thousands of Americans unable to evacuate the Middle East amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. “My understanding is our name is on a list somewhere at the State Department, which I‘m very grateful...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) will testify Wednesday morning before the House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee over the state's welfare fraud scandal. House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) previously called on Walz and Ellison to provide any records, documents and communications regarding the welfare fraud for investigators, and...
Democrat James Talarico prevailed in a Senate Democratic primary in Texas on Tuesday over Rep. Jasmine Crockett, delivering the party a candidate many had seen as the stronger general election choice. On the GOP side, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and state Attorney General Ken Paxton are headed to a May runoff after no candidate won...
An Iranian drone strike on Sunday killed six U.S. soldiers at a civilian port in Kuwait, according to The Associated Press. The group relocated from Army base Camp Arifjan to Port Shuaiba, approximately 10 miles away, in hopes of evading the incoming strikes from Tehran. “They were dispersing because they were in fear that the...
President Trump’s attack on Iran has hurled the administration into muddy legal waters, from the commander-in-chief's authority to provoke a war to adherence to international law. The strikes on Iran began early Saturday after Trump for weeks threatened Tehran with attacks, building up U.S. military might across the Middle East amid diplomatic negotiations on the...
The Department of Agriculture has approved waivers for 18 states to restrict what SNAP recipients can purchase at grocery stores, despite the fact that it lacks legal authority to do so, and this could lead to a blank check for executive restructuring of any program with waiver provisions.