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Iran has a strategic problem that no amount of tactical cunning can fully paper over: it keeps winning small and losing big. The pattern has…

There is a particular kind of governance that history keeps producing, and historians keep struggling to name cleanly. It is not incompetence exactly—incompetence is accidental.…

There is a reason Don Quixote has endured for four centuries. The old knight is deluded, yes—but he is sincere. He charges at windmills because…

There was a window—narrow, fragile, but real—where Iran’s leadership, particularly the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, could have played a far more sophisticated game. The region…

A clearer reading of the current Gulf positioning strips away the softer framing about “timelines” or tactical disagreement and exposes something sharper underneath: this is…

Political Commentary  |  March 28, 2026 For 47 years, the world’s foreign policy establishments counseled patience with Tehran. The result? Ordinary Iranians paid in blood.…

The film doesn’t just drift away from what made Peaky Blinders work—it actively dismantles it. The core problem is blunt: the plot is artificial, built…

The piece by Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker is sharp, provocative, and deliberately constructed to trigger alarm, but it leans heavily on framing…

Something fundamental has shifted in how Iran behaves under pressure, and it’s not a subtle adjustment—it’s a break from its own survival doctrine. For decades,…

Watch what states do when pressure peaks, not what they say when things are calm. Qatar is taking hits—from Iran, no less—and yet it’s leaning…

Something has shifted in a way that feels almost irreversible. Not in the loud, cinematic sense of a single decisive strike or a dramatic turning…

In the autumn of 1973, Americans stood in lines that snaked for blocks around gas stations, engines idling, tempers fraying, as the fuel gauge hovered…

Every few years, Washington rediscovers the Strait of Hormuz—usually when tensions spike, tankers get harassed, or oil prices twitch. The script is familiar: send ships,…

For China, the Strait of Hormuz is not a distant geopolitical issue. It is a structural vulnerability built into the country’s energy system. As the…

Every so often a policy proposal appears that strips away the usual political euphemisms and reveals the underlying instinct in plain numbers. Zohran Mamdani’s idea…

Politics often contains contradictions, but sometimes those contradictions become so glaring they stop looking like strategy and start looking like surrender. The latest reports emerging…

The latest round of negotiations between the United States and Iran in Geneva feels less like diplomacy and more like ritual, the kind performed because…

What sharpens this moment isn’t just the Supreme Court clipping Trump’s tariff authority, it’s how familiar the pattern feels once you stop looking at it…

Today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States redraws an important boundary in U.S. trade policy, ruling that President Donald Trump did not…

At some point the question stops being what Donald Trump intends to do next and becomes how much institutional abuse the American presidency can absorb…

One of the most likely outcomes in the U.S.–Iran standoff is not escalation, not a durable agreement, and not even a strategic retreat, but a…

A familiar script is unfolding again, this time framed by a New York Times report that casts Tehran as newly pragmatic: Iran signals a willingness…

What’s unfolding here isn’t just another ugly budget fight or a hard-nosed negotiation tactic dressed up as “deal-making.” It’s something far more corrosive, and honestly…

A quiet but consequential escalation unfolded today as the U.S. Treasury moved against one of the Iranian regime’s most vital financial lifelines: its shadow fleet.…