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The Sanctions Are Working. Don't Let Washington Lift Them Again.
Tehran is broke, isolated, and furious. This is exactly the moment to press the advantage — not to negotiate it away.
Ari Levin · 8 min read
UN Condemns Israel For 14th Time This Month, Syria Still Fine
A grand tradition continues. Member states united in their disinterest in actual human rights.
Ari Levin · 5 min read
Iranian Women Are Risking Everything. The West Yawns.
The bravest civil rights movement on earth is happening in Tehran. You'd never know it from the front page.
Sophia Bauer · 9 min read
PremiumHow Qatar Bought a Generation of American Elites
Universities, think tanks, newsrooms. Follow the money — it leads exactly where you think.
Ari Levin · 12 min read
Europe Finally Wakes Up to Immigration. Twenty Years Late.
From Stockholm to Marseille, the consensus is cracking. The lectures aimed at America are quietly being filed away.
Sophia Bauer · 9 min read
Standing With Israel Is Not Optional. It Is the Test of the West.
From Jerusalem to Washington, the line between civilization and barbarism runs through this war — and we should be honest about which side we are on.
Hannah Grossberg · 10 min read
The Working-Class Realignment Is Real — and the Right Is Winning It
Hispanic, Black, and union households are walking away from a Democratic Party that mistook lecturing for leadership.
Hannah Grossberg · 9 min read
PremiumInside the Campus Antisemitism Crisis Universities Refuse to Name
Jewish students are being told to hide their stars and their politics. Administrators are too busy issuing statements to notice.
Daniel Reyes · 12 min read
PremiumThe Abraham Accords Were Just the Beginning
Quiet diplomacy across the Gulf is doing what decades of State Department summits could not. The peace is being built in Hebrew, Arabic, and English — without Tehran.
Ari Levin · 11 min read
The Courage Deficit in Corporate America
For a decade, CEOs handed their companies over to activist staff and called it leadership. Shareholders — and the country — paid the bill.
Hannah Grossberg · 6 min read
PremiumBorder Truths Washington Spent Five Years Refusing to Say
An on-the-ground report from three small towns that built the policy the federal government wouldn't.
Maya Chen · 12 min read
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