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What Team Trump’s Group Chat Error Really Revealed March 25, 2025

Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic is so mind-blowing it’s hard to know what to say in response....

Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee? March 24, 2025

Recently, the House Select Committee on the Competition with the Chinese Communist Party released a video highlighting the whirlwind of bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations they’ve undertaken. The CCP’s decades-long political ...

How Campus Activism on Israel-Palestine Warps Global Security Priorities March 24, 2025

Thanks to university-driven activism over the Israel-Palestine conflict, the war in Gaza has politically sidelined the West’s commitment to global security in other regions of the world.Israel-Palestine is one of the few conflicts that inspires activ...

Trump Puts the System on Trial March 24, 2025

President Trump’s supporters have denounced the federal judges seeking to stall or stop this administration’s government overhaul. But there is at least one person who, despite a show of outrage and condemnation, is neither surprised nor intimidated:...

Trump

judiciary

Politics

Department of Justice

U.S.-South Africa Diplomatic Crisis Provides an Opportunity for a New Beginning March 22, 2025

U.S.-South Africa relations sank to a new low last week after the South African ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, accused the Trump administration of “supremacy” on four occasions during an online lecture on U.S. foreign policy to a South Afr...

South Africa

Trump administration

foreign policy

America Should Talk to Hamas About Hostages March 21, 2025

Axios recently reported that Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer “lashed out” at U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler in a “tense” phone call for negotiating with terror group Hamas for the return of a kidnapped U.S. citizen.In February, the U....

Turkey Detains 37 People Over Social Media Posts March 20, 2025

Alawite Massacres in Syria Deserve Our Attention March 17, 2025

As videos of massacres against Alawites in Syria go viral on social media, I find myself haunted by one image—a mother sitting silently beside her murdered sons, her face frozen in shock as the cameraman taunts her, saying she deserves this fate. Her...

The EU Killed Romania’s Democracy March 15, 2025

Romania has fallen to the status of a 'hybrid regime,' the only one in the European Union, and we have EU politicians and corrupt bureaucrats to thank for it.On March 11th, the Romanian Constitutional Court banned the most popular candidate from runn...

Romania

European Union

Politics

The UK-U.S. Special Relationship Under Trump 2.0 March 15, 2025

United Kingdom

Free Speech Wobbles in the U.K. March 13, 2025

Britain’s draconian speech laws come with jail time for housewives and pensioners who post the wrong opinions on social media ...

United Kingdom

Does the UN Care About Women? March 11, 2025

The BBC is not far behind in its recourse to the irrelevant and the trivial: one of its special contributions to this year’s festivities is a celebration of “the women defying skateboarding stereotypes”. Spotlighting a group of mothers who gather out...

A Coup Against Romanian Democracy March 10, 2025

So this is what passes for democracy in Europe nowadays. The frontrunner in Romania’s presidential elections has been banned from participating. On Sunday, Romania’s election bureau decreed that favourite Calin Georgescu should be excluded from the b...

Romania

Below-The-Threshold Deterrence, Philippine Style March 08, 2025

In the middle of the night, a CBS News crew onboard the Cape Engaño woke to the sound of alarms. The Philippine sailors directed the media team to put on life jackets while the crew prepared to defend themselves with clubs against a potential Chinese...

Immigration Policy Under Trump 2.0 March 07, 2025

President-elect Trump has promised a radical overhaul of U.S. immigration policy to reverse the Biden administration’s open-borders agenda and replace it with sweeping restrictionist alternatives in his second term. To that end, his campaign and alli...

immigration

Is a New Middle East Forming? March 07, 2025

While the region remains a powder keg in many ways, it is clear that regional elites are ready to focus on cooperation and development. ...

Middle East Media Research Institute

Donald Trump's Return is Richard Nixon's Revenge March 06, 2025

You’ve made a huge political comeback. You’re deeply suspicious of the Washington bureaucracy. You’re contemptuous of liberal elites and the media they control, especially TV networks and The New York Times. ...

The Hells Angels Have Arrived in Latin America With a Low Profile March 05, 2025

In Brazil, walking through majority-black Salvador da Bahia’s working-class neighborhoods, one can now spot garages with the Hells Angels’ painted insignia, in Portuguese and English. Their compounds are confined, far from commercial areas, though a ...

Brazil

Hells Angels

Politics

Zelensky on Gilligan’s Island March 04, 2025

In the 1960’s television series Gilligan’s Island, Gilligan was always telling rivals they were both right. The joke was the impossibility of that outcome. By contrast, in the Trump-Zelenskyy showdown, both are right. And wrong.As often is true with ...

Ukraine

Russia

Trump administration

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

J.D. Vance

free speech

European Union

Play Your Cards Right March 03, 2025

Washington isn’t Las Vegas, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to the nation’s capital last week to throw the dice, to gamble that he could win unlimited funds, weapons, and, yes, even American troops. He played and lost. Zelensky woul...

We Need Fair Accountability in the Israel-Hamas War February 22, 2025

As the world holds its breath to see if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire will stick, some are using the possible end of the war that has devastated a civilian population to boost their social media profile. One activist claimed on X he “survived the Israel...

Poland’s Path To Remarkable Prosperity February 21, 2025

Browsing social media, I recently came across a map showing all the countries with GDP per capita higher than Poland’s back in 1990 and in 2018. The difference was striking. While 35 years ago there were quite a few such countries, not only in Europe...

Poland

Why Elbridge Colby Matters February 21, 2025

Elbridge Colby is Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as under secretary of defense for policy, but Sen. Tom Cotton is thinking about derailing his nomination. Colby not only has the president’s support, he’s also been defended on social media by the lea...

neoconservatism

Fighting Back Against Digital Authoritarianism February 21, 2025

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