Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
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Trump’s Iran War Has Already Cost Each American Household $750
The credit agency Moody’s has calculated that the war against Iran has cost each American household $750. Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi said that in under three months of war, the cost of the war against Iran has already offset the additional tax breaks...
US Sees Omani Neutrality as a Threat, Pushes Muscat to Cut Ties with Tehran
The US opposes Oman maintaining relations with Iran and wants Muscat to pick a side in the conflict. Omani neutrality has allowed Muscat to act as a mediator in the region. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that American and Arab officials said the White...
Trump Claims Iran and US Officials Continue Negotiations
A day after Iran said that it had broken off talks with the US over Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon, President Donald Trump claimed that negotiations were continuing. “Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the U.S.A., stopped speaking a few...
Ben Shapiro and the ‘Four Horsemen of New Zionism’
It is time to discuss our third horseman of New Zionism, Ben Shapiro, because if we wait too much longer, he might descend into complete irrelevance. In fact, Ben Shapiro is not only a central figure in the Conservative Cinematic Universe, but the poster child of New...
The Origins of Cooperation: From Evolutionary Strategy to Decentralized Coordination at Scale
The natural world is often imagined as a system of competition where predators hunt prey, rivals vie for limited resources, and survival turns on relative advantage. At a deeper level, a quieter competition occurs within all living organisms. As the primary units of...
To Baptize the State w/John Weeks
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
Trump Continues to Test Limits of Iran Ceasefire, How Will Tehran Respond?
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
Iran Halts Talks With US Over Israeli Attacks on Lebanon
Tehran says it will suspend exchanging messages with Washington because the US is not forcing Israel to comply with the ceasefire in Lebanon. “Due to the continuation of the Zionist regime’s actions in Lebanon and given that Lebanon was one of the preconditions of...
Trump Blames ‘Unpatriotic’ Republicans for Making It Difficult to Negotiate with Iran
President Donald Trump said that “Dumocrats” and “unpatriotic Republicans” are harming his negotiating position with Iran. “Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” the President wrote on Truth Social...
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