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For Iranian American Youth, Iran War’s Impact Hits Close to Home

Young Iranian Americans in the Bay Area say the US war with Iran has cast a cloud of sadness over their family’s homes.
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Forget the Pundits. “Professor” Jiang’s Forecasts Are Going Viral

Chinese educator "Professor" Jiang is rapidly rising across YouTube, where long-form podcast interviews are fueling interest in geopolitical forecasts and global instability.

Strait of Hormuz Closure Has Wreaked Irreversible Global Damage

Iran briefly opened the critical commercial shipping passage April 17, but then closed it again the following day. The US has kept up a week-long naval blockade.

In Hungary Elections, Magyar Won While Orbán Was Saved

Viktor Orbán did not relinquish power after losing elections in Hungary because he could not hold on to it, but because in the long run he gains from it.

A Case for War? Iran’s Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons Program

The United States’ repeated attacks on Iran over more than 40 years are based on a lie: that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.

Trump’s Threats and the Moral Unraveling of America

The US under Trump has surrendered the moral authority that once allowed Americans to believe that their country stood for something beyond raw power.

On Trump and Iran, Europeans Are All for One, Each to Their Own

European countries are charting a course amid the war in Iran that combines institutional multilateralism with realist bilateralism.

Why Trump Cannot Win in Iran

Trump’s crude approach to the war in Iran has unwittingly created a bulwark of unlimited resistance, fueled by religious fervor and entrenched patriotism.

We’ve Won the Iran Conflict, Trump Reassures Americans Even as More Troops Are Deployed to Middle East

“Take the Strait,” President Donald Trump asserted to countries whose supply of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.