The 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, held in Koror, Palau, from August 31 to September 3, offered a revealing window into the limits of an increasingly ambitious external security agenda in the Pacific. The immediate subject was Australia’s expanding...
The war in the Middle East keeps getting worse for President Donald Trump. The campaign to defeat Iran and establish a new order in the Middle East that left Tehran’s allies marginalized has imploded spectacularly. Not only is Iran still fighting, but it has also...
The Republican midterm convention was recently held in Dallas. If that sounds strange, your instincts are correct. Usually, the two major political parties hold their national conventions in the summer before a presidential election. This year, however, the...
When former CIA Director James Woolsey served as chairman of the board for the non-governmental organization (NGO) Freedom House for roughly two and a half years, it was during a particularly turbulent period in the post-Soviet space. Freedom House’s "Message from the...
On the evening of August 4, an airport employee at Leipzig/Halle noticed a small drone resting on the apron near a parked Ukrainian Antonov freighter. It carried an explosive charge and a detonator. The charge did not go off. A bomb-disposal robot rolled out across...
Operation Epic Fury, a war of aggression launched on false pretenses, has failed to topple the government of Iran or force the “unconditional surrender” President Donald Trump demanded on the seventh day of a war that’s now in its seventh month. In April, the Trump...
On January 3, 2026, American aircraft struck targets across Caracas while special operations teams seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flew both to New York on narcotics and weapons charges. President Donald Trump posted that the...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city grocery store proposal is not a serious socialist threat to free enterprise. We already know they don’t work: Baldwin Market (2019-1924), owned by the town of Baldwin, Florida, went out of business after operating with losses...
It must be said at the outset that what follows is necessarily speculative. There is no evidence that Washington has decided to back Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), much less that such a policy shift is imminent. But enough developments involving the RSF, the...
Twenty-five years since the September 11 attacks, it is trite to say that if Americans as a whole learned anything, they learned none of the right things. I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless...
September 11, 2001 was the day the United States stood still and Americans looked at each other in utter shock. Ask anyone where they were the morning of 9/11, and the majority of Americans will get a look of sadness or anger. That morning I woke up on McCord Air...
For years, an odd meeting between three men notorious in the Oklahoma City bombing literature has been reported to have taken place at a Tulsa strip club, with one or two Ryder trucks in the parking lot, bragging about an incident that would occur eleven days later,...
In Washington DC, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant buffs his nail on his shirt as he intervenes in support of the Japanese yen. Well, Japan is the leading foreign creditor of Washington’s borrowing. It holds $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, and a country...
Amnesty International recently reported on the 225th extrajudicial killing conducted by the U.S. government in its campaign against boats in the Caribbean. Boasts made by the U.S. Southern Command are that those on the boats are drug dealers or terrorists. Whether in...
In 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided “full funding” for one Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki for studies in civil engineering at Colorado State University. There was only one problem: the USAID document listed his birthplace as Sana'a,...
Roughly 4,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, unpacked their gear in the second week of May. The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon had scrapped their rotation to Poland altogether, thinning American numbers in...
Ukraine is in trouble. It is losing the war in Eastern Europe, it is losing its land, and it is losing its people. Ukraine’s demographic survival is in danger: it is wasting away. Since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014, millions of Ukrainians have fled to friends...
A photograph moved across the Western wires with a caption in capital letters. "COUNTER US POWER," it read, above an image of the Kyrgyzstan president walking China's Xi Jinping past an honor guard in Bishkek, when they met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
