He is a contributor to several foreign affairs publications, and his book, Budget Superpower: How Russia Challenges the West With an Economy Smaller Than Texas’, was published in December 2022. Follow ...

Iran has made great strides in developing effective military defenses and demonstrating to shocked US and Israeli officials that it can now defend itself. But the deadly results of false ceasefires in ...

Trump’s remarks followed Iran’s announcement that it would close the Strait of Hormuz again after Israel escalated its bombing and deepened its occupation in southern Lebanon. The strait is one of the ...

The horror exceeds whether Trump is stupid, ignorant, senile and/or fixated, even locked into failed “instinctual” responses. What matters is the damage done from MAGA recklessness before being ...

As U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland move toward sanctions relief, frozen assets, and a Hormuz hotline, the unresolved war in Lebanon remains the central obstacle to turning a fragile memorandum into ...

The Trump administration has moved to join a lawsuit seeking to halt the country’s first and only operating reparations program for Black residents, placing the Department of Justice on the side of a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP, hasn’t detailed the impact on children aided by the program, but initial figures show that compared to February 2025, 4.3 million fewer people ...

A federal appeals court dismissal leaves intact a ruling that found the Trump administration’s freeze on wind approvals unlawful, preserving state clean-energy investments as new data shows renewable ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has rewritten its national detention standards in ways that former officials, medical experts, and civil liberties advocates warn could weaken protections for tens ...

Product Testing Reveals Success of CA and NY PFAS Textile Laws" found that 80 percent of tested consumer products are now in compliance with newly enacted restriction. State-level legislative bans are ...

Hedging their bets against Donald Trump is pushing the two countries together. Originally published in Hankyoreh. It has long been the dream of the U.S. foreign policy elite to bring Japan and South ...

The arena amplifies the idea, however imperfectly enacted, that communal engagement shapes outcomes. And these outcomes transcended the arenas where the Knicks games were played, stimulating joy and ...