· Japan Upper House Election: Is Country About to Lurch to the Right? · The Enshittification of American Power · How Putin Humiliated Trump · China and Europe’s Savage Squabble · Britain Has a Rare ...

Last Tuesday, when an account on X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the Texas floods because the victims were “white kids” and “future fascists,” Grok — the social media platform’s ...

CHINA WATCH · China Surveys Seabeds Where Naval Rivals May One Day Clash · U.S. Threats to AUKUS Pact Put United Front Against China at Risk · How Rare Earths Became China’s Top Trade Weapon · China’s ...

WORLD ROUNDUP How Rare Earths Became China’s Top Trade Weapon | Far-Right Extremists Use Minecraft to Gamify Radicalization | Israeli Attacks Brought Fear but Not Regime Change to Iran, and more ...

· After War with Israel and U.S., Iran Rests on a Knife Edge · A Peace Agreement That Will Probably Not Bring Peace · How Europe Got Tough on Migration · Refugees Worry: Is Nicaragua Assassinating ...

· Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him · 12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb? · Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again if Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium Enrichment · ...

One thing I think that this attack signals is that there’s a big distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear states in that you can do whatever you want to a non-nuclear state. It would be much harder ...

· Trump Urges Congress to ‘Kill’ Voice of America as Its Leader Defends Gutting It. · Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support · A Distracted Washington Is a Win for Beijing · ...

What America Can Learn from Iran’s Failure (By Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic) The Iranian regime’s predicament shows what happens when conspiracies, rather than reality, shape decision making. The ...

The Growing Threat of Homegrown Religious Extremism (Mona Charen, The Bulwark) The alleged Minnesota assassin was known as a ‘deeply religious’ Christian man. That should be an alarm bell for all of ...

· The Silence of the Generals · The Military May Find Itself in an Impossible Situation · Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced Into Exile · Once Champions of Fringe Causes, ...

The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status. The 250th birthday of the U.S. Army and, not so coincidentally, the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump — a ...