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Iran War

What if we actually nuked our way around the Hormuz blockage?

Israel accusing Iran of lawbreaking is the height of hypocrisy

Seizing Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ would be a suicide mission

Vast number of Trump voters want him to declare victory and get out

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‘Water War’ rages as India-Pakistan tensions reach boiling point

Seizing Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ would be a suicide mission

If surviving Trump meeting was goal, Takaichi leaves DC a winner

Not so diplomatic: Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump’s march to war in Iran

Are we on the precipice of World War III?

Erlic Burlison Lauren Boebert Lisa Murkowski
Washington Politics

Republicans stepping up skepticism over $200B war request

Some who would otherwise support the war say they have no idea what the huge supplemental budget request is supposed to pay for

Iran war could cripple the 'Yuxi Circle' or 55% of world population
Asia-Pacific

Iran war could cripple the 'Yuxi Circle' or 55% of world population

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Washington Politics

Red or Blue? How party ID codes our positions on foreign policy

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran
Global Crises

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

Trump's Sahel reset banks on 'sovereignty,' guns + minerals deals
Africa

Trump's Sahel reset banks on 'sovereignty,' guns + minerals deals

Gaza
Middle East

The destruction of Gaza has not ended

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

Donald Trump
QiOSK

Trump's window for face-saving exit may be closing now

Escalation is only putting him in a lose-lose situation, so negotiating is the only option. However, Iran's growing leverage could prevent an easy off-ramp.

Tulsi Gabbard distances US war goals further from Israel's

Dems: We will not approve one more cent for this war

Larijani's killing will destroy Iran war off-ramps for Trump

Senior US official resigns in protest of Iran war

Asia-Pacific

Iran war could cripple the 'Yuxi Circle' or 55% of world population

Iran war could cripple the 'Yuxi Circle' or 55% of world population

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at White House Trump

If surviving Trump meeting was goal, Takaichi leaves DC a winner

Trump ASEAN

The Supreme Court did Trump a favor in Southeast Asia

nuclear weapons

Is China really testing nuclear weapons?

Middle east

Gaza

The destruction of Gaza has not ended

In "A Historian in Gaza," Jean-Pierre Filiu bears witness to devastation the world has started to overlook

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

Erlic Burlison Lauren Boebert Lisa Murkowski

Republicans stepping up skepticism over $200B war request

ukraine war protests

Red or Blue? How party ID codes our positions on foreign policy

Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump's hands

Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump's hands

Will Democrats pop Trump's $50 billion trial balloon for war?

Will Democrats pop Trump's $50 billion trial balloon for war?

Africa

Trump's Sahel reset banks on 'sovereignty,' guns + minerals deals

Trump's Sahel reset banks on 'sovereignty,' guns + minerals deals

Trump's 'commercial diplomacy' runs into violent reality

South Africa: Between Iran and a hard place (Donald Trump)

US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?

Latin America

Argentina Buenos Aires

Hezbollah in Latin America: A political bugaboo rolling out on cue

Vatican quietly steps up role in US-Cuba talks

As Iran war rages, Washington opens a new front in Ecuador

How Maduro overthrow was key node in US-Israeli war on Iran

Europe

As Trump squeezes, can de Villepin give new backbone to France?

As Trump squeezes, can de Villepin give new backbone to France?

Russia shouldn't get too excited about oil sanctions relief

Is Ukraine peace toast now that the Middle East is on fire?

On Iran, Spain's Sanchez rises above the bowed heads of Europe

north america

Russian icebreakers

Trump's Greenland, Canada threats reflect angst over Russia shipping

Canada is not interested in White House boot licking. So what?

Tech billionaires behind Greenland bid want to build 'freedom cities'

Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.

Military Industrial Complex

POGO The Bunker

The Iran war's early lessons

This week in The Bunker: Every war is instructive in its own way, and the U.S. war on Iran is already offering up 'lessons learned' for future conflicts; and more.

Media

Iran school attack

Why did mainstream media slow-walk coverage of school attack?

Gen Z doesn't have the same hang-ups about Iran as older Americans

Gen Z doesn't have the same hang-ups about Iran as older Americans

Ngo Dinh Diem vietnam coup assassination

'Kennedy's Coup' signaled regime change doom loop for US

Hegseth to take control of Stars & Stripes for 'warfighter' makeover

Hegseth to take control of Stars & Stripes for 'warfighter' makeover

Global Crises

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

The road to Beijing doesn't run through Tehran

However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic self-own in our great-power competition with China