Several House Democrats expressed anger with Rep. Rashida Tlaib after the Democratic Congresswoman introduced a War Powers Resolution that would force President Donald Trump to halt Israel’s war against Lebanon. The War Powers Resolution introduced by Tlaib in late...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
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...
