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The UAE’s Audacious Play To Co-Opt the United Nations

by Matt Wolfson | Nov 3, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The word “audacity,” defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as “courage or confidence of a kind that other people find shocking or rude,” is, as its definition suggests, construed mainly in personal terms, and often, as with Barack Obama’s “the audacity of hope,” in positive ones. But there is another kind of audacity, one that is both less discussed and less amenable to being conceived of in positive terms. This is structural audacity: the ability and willingness of small sets of operators to enter institutions then turn them to their own ends without demonstrable concern for the...

Why A Democratic Socialist Is Surging In Florida

by Matt Wolfson | Oct 7, 2026 | Featured Articles, Politics

To get from Miami to the August fundraiser for Angie Nixon’s primary campaign for U.S. Senate at a Palestinian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, the fastest route was I-95 to the Florida Turnpike. This is a route along which, during a hazy, 90+ degree mid-afternoon on a Friday at the end of summer, it was possible to see from the car window broad signs of what Florida is becoming. These signs explain State Rep. Nixon’s unprecedented success running as a democratic socialist in what has become ground zero of Republican politics. And they are a warning of what the Republican model of political...

The Case of Rep. LaMonica McIver and the Growth of the Security State

by Matt Wolfson | Sep 21, 2026 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was born in 1986 in Newark and has lived there ever since. She grew up in a public high rise with three younger siblings and a mother who struggled with substance abuse. She looked instead for guidance to her fifth grade teacher, Ras Baraka, since 2014 the mayor of Newark, who “hooked” her on public speaking: first on theater (Macbeth) and then, when he started his electoral career, on politics. In 2004, McIver became the first of her family to graduate college: Bloomfield College, with a degree in English literature, then Seton Hall University,...

‘Terror’ as Technique in American Policymaking

by Matt Wolfson | Jun 3, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In a speech delivered in the autumn of 2002, as the United States moved inexorably toward war with Iraq, the late Joan Didion delivered an offhand remark that effectively summed up the flaw at the heart of the logic behind that coming war, and of the logic of a number of wars before it, and of a number of wars to come. Referring to “the ‘war on terror’ that the President had declared” of which the operation against Iraq was the centerpiece, Didion added a parenthetical critique: “...as if terror were a state and not a technique.” Twenty-three and a half years later, we live in the detritus...

Empire with a Humanitarian Face: Democrats Rebrand

by Matt Wolfson | May 27, 2026 | Featured Articles, Politics

American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of “the uniparty” and the media its notion of “partisanship.” Through the “partisan” lens favored by media, our politics appears divided between a party, the Republicans, in hock to Israel, the “big five” weapons contractors, real estate, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; and a party, the Democrats, in hock to powerful “progressive” or “Left” nonprofits like ActBlue, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for...

Supremacist Alliance: The Zionist-Hindutva Hijacking of America

by Matt Wolfson | Apr 21, 2026 | Featured Articles, Politics

On February 17, 2026, in the run-up of the primary election to determine the Democratic nominee and de facto future occupant of Illinois’s open U.S. senate seat, The New York Times ran a headline asking, “Can suburban support beat the party machine?” The Times was referring to what turned out to be the unsuccessful challenge of U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi against Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton. Krishnamoorthi is a Hindu born in Delhi and educated at Princeton who is supported by the Chief Technology Officer of Palantir as well as by Hindu and Indian donors and a series of...

The Imitation Game: With Zionist Help, Hindutva Ideology Rises in America

by Matt Wolfson | Apr 15, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

On or around March 14, 2026, Laura Loomer, a Jewish Zionist journalist whose screeds against Islam, tabloid approach to reporting, Air Force One conversations with President Donald Trump, and purge lists for the White House’s National Security Council have fairly earned her the label “notorious,” sat down for a public interview at the India Today summit in New Delhi and apologized for past “hurtful tweets,” for example referring to Indians as “third world invaders.” She went on to say that “I am an advocate for Hindu people and continue to speak against brutalities on them.” This was a...

The United Arab Emirates: America and Israel’s Frankenstein Monster

by Matt Wolfson | Apr 7, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On February 24, 2026, Donald Trump, the president of the United States now in the second year of his second term, entered the United States Congress on Capitol Hill and delivered what Ronald Reagan’s favorite speechwriter called “the Oprah State of the Union”: an entertainment opportunity with “tears, cheers” and “spectacle,” where “they handed out medals and honors like Oprah in the early 2000s: ‘You get a car! Everybody gets a car!’” There, broadcast live from the Capitol, were the signatures of the Trump era compressed into a single speech: the controversies (immigration, transgenderism);...

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