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A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare…
Deferring a Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still…
As NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7-8, the alliance will again speak the language it has used for decades: unity,…
Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to my American…
By now, editors at the New York Times and producers at CNN are surely squirming over what to do about Dr. Hussam…
Lina Farajallah follows the dumping trucks every morning from the window of her quaint home in Idhna, a Palestinian town in Hebron…
With the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran, renewed American airstrikes, and widening cracks within the Western alliance dominating the headlines, the…
At the NATO summit in Ankara this week, President Trump told reporters he was “very disappointed” with the alliance over its members’…
A new report details how the Israeli government is covertly and illicitly trying to influence public affairs in Canada. While countries regularly…
The February 2026 Iran war cannot be understood as an isolated event; but rather the outcome of over four decades of coordinated…
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