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...
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...
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...
Iran is threatening that it will strike northern Israel if Tel Aviv moves forward with planned strikes in Beirut. On Sunday, Israel called for residents of southern neighborhoods in Beirut to evacuate the city before the IDF started to bomb. The Iranian military...
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently lost the most expensive primary race in American history. Why? For some, this remains a grand mystery. It was a mystery, apparently, for The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles after the primary runoff defeat of Senator John Cornyn...
The Trump administration's May 2026 indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro represents the latest escalation in a six-decade campaign of economic warfare that has failed to achieve regime change while inflicting catastrophic harm on the Cuban people. The...
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said a strike was conducted on a vessel suspected of smuggling narcotics. Pushing the total number of people killed by Operation Southern Spear to over 200. “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel...
During the ceasefire, Iran has been able to dig out sites tied to its missile program that were bombed by the US during the first five weeks of the war. CNN reports reviewing satellite imagery that shows Tehran used simple construction equipment to dig out several...
