Supporting Iran’s Minorities Risks Playing With Fire
And, from their standpoint, so does relying on Donald Trump’s word for anything.
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And, from their standpoint, so does relying on Donald Trump’s word for anything.
The largest massacre in modern history happened in 48 hours. Shay Khatiri on what comes next in an Iran on the brink.
With both sides boxed in and reverting to bellicose rhetoric — and Trump’s armada on hand — there’s lots of pressure and not a lot of options.
The United States launched large-scale overnight strikes against Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s leader, President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning.
The strategy seemingly ignores active threats to the US and instead seeks to redefine what it means to be an American.
A decades-long trail of money and kompromat that isn’t just scandal — it’s a threat to the world order and to democracy itself.
A regime that once ruled through fear now faces its own collapse. Shay Khatiri explains why this moment changes everything — and what happens next.
The danger of cultural misinterpretation, when what you say isn’t what they hear, and vice versa.
Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren reveals the “original sin” and decades-long miscalculation that led to this moment — and what comes next.
It would be deja vu, except that Bush, Powell, and Rumsfeld were arguably sane.
Qatari virtues and vices are very much in the eye of the beholder.
We may survive Trump — somehow — but will we survive AI?