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Israel's Wars

Four major dynamics in Gaza War that will impact 2026

Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast.

Does Israel really still need a 'qualitative military edge' ?

Israel's all-seeing eye is the stealthiest cruelty of all in Gaza

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When Trump's big Venezuela oil grab runs smack into reality

Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right

Congress quietly moves US closer to military draft

Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war

Tracking congressional criticism of Trump's attack on Venezuela

Monroe Doctrine
Latin America

Nostalgia isn't strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen

Offering a sober assessment of 19th and 20th Century US foreign policy and lessons learned the hard way

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Middle East

Is the Saudi-UAE rivalry heading for more violence?

Gaza refugees
Middle East

By suspending 37 aid orgs is Israel pushing toward a final expulsion?

Trump $1.5 trillion
Military Industrial Complex

The reality of Trump’s cartoonish $1.5 trillion DOD budget proposal

Trump Venezuela
Latin America

Trump's sphere of influence gambit is sloppy, self-sabotage

Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
Washington Politics

JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

Trump Iran
QiOSK

As Tehran cracks down, Trump’s likely instincts are to stay out

The president is already walking back 'lock and loaded' promises to intervene in protests across the country

Congress subpoenas journalist for sharing name of Venezuela op commander

Finally: Senators vote to block military action in Venezuela

US capture of Russian-flagged ship could derail Ukraine War talks

US weapons stocks booming, CEOs gloating after Maduro toppled

Asia-Pacific

New weapons to Taiwan: 'Overdue correction' or poorly timed move?

New weapons to Taiwan: 'Overdue correction' or poorly timed move?

China lion

Taiwan shouldn't become the thorn we use to provoke China

South Korea president President Lee Jae-myung

Trump NSS puts S. Korea at center of US primacy aims in region

Donald Trump Lee Jae Myung

South Korea isn't crazy about US-led anti-China bloc

Middle east

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Is the Saudi-UAE rivalry heading for more violence?

The Emiratis' desire to crush Islamists and dominate geopolitically at all costs, particularly in Yemen and Sudan, is clashing with old friends in Riyadh

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

QI honors Reps. Khanna, Massie for reining in militarismplay icon

QI honors Reps. Khanna, Massie for reining in militarism

Washington Politics

Ngo Dinh Diem assassination

JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.

Trump SOTU 2025

Has my party become 'eunuchs in the thrall' of the president?

Bush Trump Cheney

4 ways Team Trump reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025

Marco Rubio

Five restraint successes — and five absolute fails — in 2025

Africa

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?

6 stories that defined Trump’s approach to Africa in 2025

Trump's Christmas Day strikes on Nigeria beg question: Why Sokoto?

Guinea-Bissau: The ‘narco-state’ the US virtually ignores

Latin America

Monroe Doctrine

Nostalgia isn't strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen

Trump's sphere of influence gambit is sloppy, self-sabotage

The US military is feeling invincible, and that's dangerous

What risk? Big investors jockeying for potential Venezuela oil rush

Europe

Europe whistles past the Venezuelan graveyard

Europe whistles past the Venezuelan graveyard

Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right

Listening to what regular Ukrainians are saying about the war

Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war

north america

Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.

Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.

Trade review process could rock the calm in US-Mexico relations

The rising US-NATO-Russia security dilemma in the Arctic

Trump takes US military one step closer to bombing drug cartels

Military Industrial Complex

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Military contractors reap big profits in war-to-homeland pipeline

Battle-tested technology and weapons systems are finding their way into US law enforcement and border patrol

Media

Seth Harp

Congress subpoenas journalist for sharing name of Venezuela op commander

The 8 best foreign policy books of 2025

The 8 best foreign policy books of 2025

Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss just handed Trump a ‘kill switch’ for news it doesn’t like

I was canceled by three newspapers for criticizing Israel

I was canceled by three newspapers for criticizing Israel

Global Crises

What use is a mine ban treaty if signers at war change their minds?

What use is a mine ban treaty if signers at war change their minds?

Ukraine’s attempted suspension of its obligation threatens not just one convention, but the foundations of humanitarian law