Washington Politics
Trump's realist defense strategy has interventionist asterisks
There's some encouraging signs for restraint but the document still pays homage to American militarism
January 28, 2026
Washington Politics
Washington Politics
Ted Cruz's 2028 MAGA hawk pose is truly a Jurassic Park dud
The GOP senator is privately positioning himself as a proper neoconservative alternative to VP Vance. In other words, a dinosaur.
January 28, 2026
Media
Ding dong the legacy media and its slavish war reporting is dead
The rise of independent media has shattered the grip of corporate news and is providing serious challenges to government and establishment narratives
January 28, 2026
Middle East
Official US Govt reports contradict Mike Waltz's rants against UNRWA
White House insists that aid must get to Gaza per the ceasefire but its ambassador is clinging to Israeli falsehoods about the only agency that can deliver it
January 26, 2026
Media
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Foreign policy prophet or blind man?
Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s grand strategist plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today
January 22, 2026
QiOSK
Trump: We got a $1.5 trillion military budget. He’s (kinda) right.
His boast to Davos today wasn't off the mark if he combines these overflowing pots of national security funding
January 21, 2026
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