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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 8, 2026, 5:25 PM

Riyadh Chose the Brotherhood Security Camp

On August 7, 2026, Saudi Arabia ended years of geostrategic ambiguity. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) joined Turkey’s neo-Ottoman despot, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Mecca to sign a mutual-defense agreement that...

Juda Engelmayer

Aug 8, 2026, 9:56 AM

When the Enemy of My Enemy Becomes My Ideology

History has a habit of repeating itself. Not because the circumstances are identical, but because people, particularly people acting in political movements, have a habit of making the same mistakes. One of those mistakes is confusing a common enemy with...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Aug 8, 2026, 12:57 AM

Trump and Netanyahu are Both Terrible, But Neither is Hitler or Voldemort

There are excellent reasons to oppose Donald Trump, and there are excellent reasons to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither case requires Adolf Hitler, and it certainly does not require Lord Voldemort. One might expect people who invoke the history of Nazi...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 7, 2026, 8:00 PM

An Iranian Coup Is Coming for the Strait of Hormuz

Washington’s most enduring and destructive foreign policy pathology is wishful thinking. For decades, the American foreign policy establishment has pinned its hopes on the mirage of Iranian moderation, treating the Islamic Republic as a conventional state acting on rational...

Aug 7, 2026, 6:26 PM

Hamas Wants the World to Forget

The Israeli flag featuring the Star of David against a clear blue sky and trees, picture from Pexels website (https://www.pexels.com/photo/flag-of-israel-with-star-of-david-in-blue-sky-30849038/).

What happens when a terrorist group no longer defends its atrocities but simply denies they ever happened—and much of the world is willing to look away? Hamas is betting that enough time, enough destruction in Gaza, and enough media...

Aug 7, 2026, 7:00 AM

How Do You Negotiate Hormuz and Neutralize Pickaxe Mountain at the Same Time?

It cannot be done. Not this way, not that way, not some clever third way nobody has thought of . Not with more time. Not with more money. Not with a better negotiator in the room. Not in this...

Ruthie Hollander

Aug 6, 2026, 11:53 PM

Hasan Piker, Donald Trump, and the death of the political moderate

Images of Trump, El-Sayed, and Piker from Wikimedia Commons; design by me.

When Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed won a neck-and-neck primary, the popular Twitch streamer and liberal “kingmaker” Hasan Piker had a message for El-Sayed’s detractors: “Everyone being like, Abdul has a f*ck-ton of work to do mending bridges, here’s...

Joseph C. Kaplan

Aug 6, 2026, 11:08 PM

Exchange with a very good friend

A number of friends of my generation who rarely comment on my columns emailed me about my latest, where I discussed my contrasting feelings toward America’s bicentennial and semiquincentennial (“Belated Anniversary Wishes”). Many, including one who actually attended our...

Aug 6, 2026, 1:04 PM

Syria, Iraq, and Trump’s Energy Bet

AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.

Can energy infrastructure reshape the Middle East’s strategic balance? The Trump administration appears to believe it can. By supporting the revival of a long-dormant Iraq-Syria oil pipeline, Washington is pursuing more than an infrastructure project. The initiative aims to reduce...

Aug 5, 2026, 9:08 PM

Peace Seekers: If Gaza Is a War Zone, Let’s Give People a Way Out

I know what it’s like to leave everything behind. As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, my family fled because staying was no longer safe. America became more than a destination. It became an opportunity. I grew up, earned...

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