The war has shifted the crisis onto ground that favors the regime’s hardest institutions and away from the domestic contest over legitimacy that had left the state most exposed.
As an Iraqi, I’ve spent my life fleeing, surviving, and bearing witness to wars justified by lies. In Iran, we’re seeing yet another.
Blaming Israel alone for this catastrophe lets U.S. leaders off the hook for their actions.
Trump’s apocalyptic prioritization of Israeli interests has weakened the interdependence of the Gulf States.
Each additional strike reinforces the narrative that sustains the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The frog of America is not in a pot of water coming to a slow boil. The frog of America is in the middle of a pile of rapidly accumulating rubble.
Be careful drawing conclusions about Iran’s alleged attack on the U.S. base on Diego Garcia.
Many citizens of Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran are unhappy with their regimes. But it is not up to self-proclaimed saviors from the outside to overthrow the leaders of those countries.
The Strait of Hormuz crisis reveals much about global supply fragility.
The old anxiety about losing jobs has been eclipsed by something far grimmer: machines are now taking lives.