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        Trump's use and misuse of Iran intel
    
Paul R. Pillar
July 01, 2025

        Let's make a deal: Enrichment path that both Iran, US can agree on
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
June 30, 2025

        Polls: Americans don't support Trump's war on Iran
    
David Vine
June 30, 2025

        Don't read the funeral rites for MAGA restraint yet
    
Jack Hunter
June 26, 2025

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        Trump's silence on loss of Ukraine lithium territory speaks volumes
    
Jennifer Kavanagh
July 02, 2025

        Did Trump just dump the Ukraine War into the Europeans' lap?
    
Ian Proud
June 26, 2025

        Let's make a deal: Enrichment path that both Iran, US can agree on
    
Elfadil Ibrahim
June 30, 2025

        If Iranian regime collapses or is toppled, 'what's next?'
    
Tanya Goudsouzian
June 26, 2025

        First it was regime change, now they want to break Iran apart
    
Eldar Mamedov
July 01, 2025
Middle East
        Netanyahu returns, but question remains, is it triumphantly?
    Gaza ceasefire, bombing Iran again, normalization — all may be on the White House meeting docket Monday. But likely this is more political theater.
Annelle Sheline
Carol Daniel-Kasbari
July 04, 2025
Military Industrial Complex
        Bidenites make soft landing in heart of lucrative war industry
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
Ashley Gate
July 03, 2025
Europe
        Trump's silence on loss of Ukraine lithium territory speaks volumes
    
Jennifer Kavanagh
July 02, 2025
Military Industrial Complex
        Yes to 'Department of War' name change
    
Mark Thompson
July 03, 2025
Middle East
        Is the US now funding the bloodbath at Gaza aid centers?
    
Stavroula Pabst
July 01, 2025
Middle East
        First it was regime change, now they want to break Iran apart
    
Eldar Mamedov
July 01, 2025
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        Are you a terrorist?
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C. Kaye Rawlings
July 04, 2025

        Diplomacy Watch: Staring down the barrel of a summer offensive
    
Stavroula Pabst
July 04, 2025

        Charges of US contractor abuse in Gaza recalls ugly Blackwater era
    
Adam Weinstein
July 03, 2025

        How the weapons industry pushed Trump toward war with Iran
    
Nick Cleveland-Stout
June 30, 2025

        Senate vote to exert war powers over Trump fails
    
Ben Armbruster
June 27, 2025

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        Post-coup juntas across the Sahel face serious crises
    
Alex Thurston
July 01, 2025

        Could Trump's Congo-Rwanda mineral deals actually save lives?
    
Dan M. Ford
Kenya  Sanchez
June 27, 2025

        Wagner mercenaries declare 'mission accomplished' in Mali
    
John Lechner
Sergey Eledinov
June 16, 2025

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Elfadil Ibrahim
May 28, 2025
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        Taxing remittances helps make US neighbors poorer, less stable
    
Karthik Sankaran
June 25, 2025

        Former Air Force commando takes top LatAm job at NSC
    
Lee Schlenker
June 19, 2025

        Bukele's dirty secret: He made deals with the worst gangs
    
Joseph Bouchard
May 19, 2025

        US invasion of Panama was first step toward the 'forever wars'
    
Richard Hinman
May 09, 2025
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        Europe
    

        Trump's silence on loss of Ukraine lithium territory speaks volumes
    
Jennifer Kavanagh
July 02, 2025

        Did Trump just dump the Ukraine War into the Europeans' lap?
    
Ian Proud
June 26, 2025

        UN Charter turns 80: Why do Europeans mock it so?
    
Zachary Paikin
June 26, 2025

        The 17 Ukraine war peace terms the US must put before NATO
    
Anatol Lieven
June 20, 2025
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        Canada hosts pre-NATO rearmament affirmation confab
    
Lital Khaikin
June 05, 2025

        Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border
    
Sam Carliner
May 27, 2025

        Why spying on Greenland isn't the problem
    
Paul R. Pillar
May 13, 2025

        Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on
    
Zachary Paikin
March 31, 2025
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Israel-Iran War

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Gaza ceasefire, bombing Iran again, normalization — all may be on the White House meeting docket Monday. But likely this is more political theater.

QiOSK

New episode of 'Always at War' with Elizabeth Beavers explores how U.S. laws have been used to quash dissent

Asia-Pacific

Middle east

Gaza ceasefire, bombing Iran again, normalization — all may be on the White House meeting docket Monday. But likely this is more political theater.

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

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Military Industrial Complex

Even with the greenlight for Israel's attacks, we won't be able to afford new costly entanglements — or want them

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The downsides of his trade policies are symptoms of a larger strategic flaw

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