February 23, 2020
Since the Qassem Soleimani assassination, Washington and Tehran have intensified their efforts to try to outmaneuver each other for influence in Iraq.
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February 22, 2020
Before the strengthening of trade links with India, Saudi Arabia usually supported Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir. Now their interests seem to have diverged.
February 22, 2020
Donald Trump’s feelings of invulnerability are partly rooted in America’s failure to hold anyone responsible for crimes committed in the “war on terror.”
February 21, 2020
The designation gives the Trump administration another justification for its “maximum pressure” campaign.
February 21, 2020
The Senate has given Trump a green-light to do pretty much whatever he wants. He’s now taking aim at the intel community.
February 21, 2020
With Israel’s third election in less than a year upcoming, Benjamin Netanyahu is turning to desperate measures to avoid going to jail.
February 21, 2020
If Donald Trump is reelected, it’s likely a hardliner akin to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will become president of Iran in 2021.
February 20, 2020
What does anthropology and psychology have to say about our seemingly permanent state of war with Iran?
February 20, 2020
Given this administration’s track record, perhaps making it more difficult to send humanitarian goods into Iran was the point.
February 19, 2020
Trump’s plan for Middle East peace isn’t just a giveaway to the Israeli right-wing. It will also have negative impacts on U.S. regional partners.
February 19, 2020
Battlefield supremacy is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
February 18, 2020
All Donald Trump has done is make the lives of civilians in Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela miserable.
February 18, 2020
A new survey finds that those Americans who have lived most of their lives with the U.S. at war are looking for something new.
February 17, 2020
After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Who’s been fired for them? Who’s been impeached? Who’s even paying attention?
February 17, 2020
The disinformation campaign against a new United Nations database aims to legitimize the Israeli settler movement and those who illegally profit from it.
February 17, 2020
Putin and Erdogan have weathered some storms together. Might they finally reach their breaking point?
February 16, 2020
The time may have finally arrived for the Palestinians to disabuse themselves of the hope that the status quo Arab political order could help them.
February 16, 2020
Donald Trump’s use of Pentagon spending and military assistance for political gain has been hiding in plain sight since he entered the Oval Office.
February 15, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is testing the assumption that neither Russia nor the United States can afford to lose Turkey.
February 15, 2020
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s new foreign policy initiative includes a measure to rein in the executive branch’s misuse of economic sanctions.
February 14, 2020
Q&A: Rep. Ilhan Omar explains her new ‘Pathway to Peace’ and how it’s an antidote to U.S. militarism
“Now more than ever, there is room for a new consensus — one that rejects the warmongering and militarism of the past and looks toward a more hopeful, peaceful world.”