US Policy

The Government of Kais Saied Is Systematically Eliminating Every Institution Capable of Documenting or Resisting Its Own Conduct
The Polisario Front May Deserve the Terrorist Label, but Securing the Sahara Still Requires Confronting Algeria’s Support.
The Strait’s Closure Disrupts the Flow of More than 20 Percent of the World’s Oil and Gas Supplies
Why Does the State Department Accept that the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government Imprisons Journalists?
For Trump to Push Forward with Boulos’ Proposal for Rapprochement Also Would Insult Ethiopian and Eritrean Americans
Anniversary Rhetoric Masks Economic Collapse and Strategic Drift
A Network of Citizens, Residents, and Cultivated Operatives Were Passing Targeting Intelligence to Tehran While Attacks on Bahrain Were Ongoing
The Choice Facing the U.S. Is to Intensify and Escalate the Pressure, or to Accept a Face-Saving Deal Likely to Leave the Regime’s Regional Project Intact
The U.S. May Be Signaling Dominance but Trying to Remain Flexible by Not Shutting Down Iran’s Oil Trade Entirely
Since 2018, No Prime Ministerial Candidate Has Moved Forward Without His Consultation, Approval, or Intervention
The Sudan Conflict Is a Humanitarian One, and It Risks Drawing Its Neighbors Into an Even Broader War
Unless a Meaningful Rift Emerges Within the Guard Itself, Claims of Significant Internal Leadership Divisions Are Overstated
This Year the Silence Had to Reach Further than It Has Ever Reached Before
U.S. Africa Command Is Right to Choose Sirte as a Secondary Location
America and Israel Can Win This War on the Condition That They Understand It’s Not One Linear Movement
Iran’s Hardliners Have Accused the Negotiating Team of Treason for Reportedly Agreeing to Some U.S. Demands
The Iranian-Backed Militias Sudani Defends Are Parasites Upon the Iraqi Economy and the Country’s Sovereignty
The Problem Trump Will Face in Isolating Iran and Preventing Trade in Fuel and Weapons Will Not Be in the Persian Gulf, but Rather the Caspian Sea