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Iran War

Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

The collapse of national sovereignty in the Middle East

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

Houthis v. Saudi Arabia: Round 2. This time it's regional.

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Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

People walk next to a symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile and an Iranian flag at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 12, 2026.
Middle East

Surprise strikes signal Iran is digging in for a long war

As hopes for a peace deal with the US fade, Tehran appears to be preparing to fight through the end of Trump's presidency

US Army in Iraq
Military Industrial Complex

American veterans know the cost of a military-first foreign policy

Eisenhower Nasset Suez
Middle East

Will Trump meet his Suez moment & seize Hormuz deal on the table?

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.
Europe

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

AFRICOM
Africa

Trump's quick hits allow for AFRICOM comeback on continent

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions
Europe

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

President Donald Trump sits on stage at the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in February 2026.
QiOSK

Bored of Peace: Why is Trump undermining his own Gaza plan?

For a few fleeting days, there was a deal that would have disarmed Hamas and secured an Israeli withdrawal from the strip

El-Sayed overcomes $30 million AIPAC spend, wins Michigan primary

Iran, Ukraine wars depleted 'virtually all' US long-range missiles: Report

Navy retiring USS Fort Worth halfway through lifespan

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Asia-Pacific

As Myanmar collapses, it’s time for China to step up and be the hero

As Myanmar collapses, it’s time for China to step up and be the hero

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

China Russia navy

Thinking twice about that US-China superwar

Middle east

People walk next to a symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile and an Iranian flag at Imam Hussein Square in Tehran, Iran, on July 12, 2026.

Surprise strikes signal Iran is digging in for a long war

As hopes for a peace deal with the US fade, Tehran appears to be preparing to fight through the end of Trump's presidency

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How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.play icon

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Washington Politics

Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

John Thune Senate leadership

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

South Carolina Senators Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham,

Before Lindsey there was Fritz, an anti-Iraq war, Israel skeptic

China hawks are losing the public opinion battle

China hawks are losing the public opinion battle

Africa

ceuta spain migrants

Are US and Israel benefitting from 'migration blackmail' in Spain?

Trump's quick hits allow for AFRICOM comeback on continent

Will naming, shaming & sanctioning terror in Sudan stop bloodshed?

The new US push for peace in Libya is — surprise — about the oil

Latin America

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

What a US war with Cuba would really look like

'ISIS of the Western Hemisphere'? Latin America isn't buying it

Can Cuba outlast Marco Rubio?

Europe

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

north america

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

Is Trump finally burying the zombie US-Mexico-Canada trade pact?

Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?

Military Industrial Complex

Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state

Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state

President Truman inaugurated the era of three-letter agencies in July 1947. One set of rules for spies, scientists, and lawmen, another set for the rest of us.

Media

Mark Levin Jack Keane Fox News

Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Ukraine landmines

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

World War I propaganda poster

When Democrats were smearing socialists over war

Global Crises

Trump oil fields

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

The US risks depleting its emergency petroleum supplies even as it escalates with Iran