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The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement…
US military commanders ābypassed warningsā indicating that their database of strike targets inside Iran was badly out of date shortly before launching…
What has befallen Lebanon over the last two years is nothing short of a devastating earthquake. Itās part of the deal that…
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…
At the NATO summit in Ankara this week, President Trump told reporters he was “very disappointed” with the alliance over its members’…
The February 2026 Iran war cannot be understood as an isolated event; but rather the outcome of over four decades of coordinated…
Abstract Across divergent political contextsāfrom Iran to Latin Americaāpolitical discourse is increasingly marked by a structural failure to recognize society as a…
It will soon be the 250th anniversary of this country and the Trump administration is already planning its own set of celebrations.…
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