Two weeks ago, Joel Berry, the managing editor of the satirical Babylon Bee, tried to defend the Israeli surprise attack on Iran by framing it as a boon for evangelical Christianity. Evangelical Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran, and Israel just...
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Trump Was Never a Sincere Advocate of Realism and Restraint
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Expectations for a restrained foreign policy by a new Trump administration were naïve. We now have strong evidence. Even before President Donald Trump ordered B-2 bombers to attack Iran’s nuclear sites and plunge the United States into another Middle East war, it...
Are There Really Biblical Reasons to ‘Stand With Israel’?
by Jeff Wright | Jun 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
A biblical and theological issue is at the heart of a major geopolitical crisis. This fact was brought to light during the recent discussion between Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tucker Carlson. When Tucker challenged Cruz on his vehement support for Israel, Cruz...
TGIF: This Is America First
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 20, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Trump battle cry is America First. Revealingly, it is not Americans First. The former signifies, implicitly if not explicitly, national collectivism; the latter, individualism. To the extent Trump has a political worldview, it is not individualist. We cannot doubt...
Centralize Power to Decentralize It? The DOGE Conundrum
by Tyler Turman | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Government waste is a problem, but, unfortunately, DOGE is not man’s best friend in this case. Six months after its dramatic rollout, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lost its most famous face. Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul once touted as the...
War with Iran Is Not in the Interest of the American People
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States is, once again, on the precipice of entering another war in the Middle East. After months of productive negotiations between the Trump administration and the Iranian government to reach a new nuclear deal, the talks were broken off by a series of...
A Nuclear Iran Isn’t America’s Problem
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the United States edges closer to another military entanglement—this time over the pretense of Iran’s nuclear program—it’s worth revisiting the controversial but deeply compelling argument made by the late Kenneth Waltz in his 2012 Foreign Affairs article, Why Iran...
America Last: No U.S. Demographic Supports War on Iran
by Connor Freeman and Will Porter | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is not a single demographic in the United States whose majority is not opposed to American involvement in Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, according to a new poll published by YouGov and the Economist. Perhaps most crucially, this includes voters who backed Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection.