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[ad_1] When President Donald Trump first slapped tariffs on imported aluminum, the goal was clear: Increase domestic aluminum production for national security purposes. The executive order Trump signed in March 2018 declared that aluminum was being imported in “such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States.” A Commerce Department report laid out the argument in more detail: If the U.S. found itself in a major war, it would need reliable supplies of aluminum (to make weapons, aircraft, and more) and should not depend on imports to meet that need. Tariffs,…

[ad_1] After Marco Rubio’s meeting last month to rally allies against “far-left terrorism,” an Argentine rights group considers the pattern of political persecution it seeks to export worldwide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing a meeting on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 16. (State Department/ Freddie Everett) By Centro de Estudios Legales y SocialesOpen Democracy When Marco Rubio gathered representatives from 66 countries in Washington in July, his aim was clear and aggressive: target the “resurgence of far-left terrorism.” Framing the threat as a global emergency, the U.S. secretary of…

[ad_1] California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) said last month that Elon Musk had “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Musk called him a liar, threatened to sue, and suggested he belonged in prison. Khanna was citing a 2025 study in The Lancet that claimed USAID prevented 91,839,663 deaths between 2001 and 2021 and projected more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030 if the cuts held. That study was cited in articles by NPR, the BBC, the Associated Press, NBC, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.  None of these…

[ad_1] Seventy-two bodies came out of the water at Tarajal, and the sea kept giving some of them back through the weekend. They drowned in sight of Europe, in the fourteen-kilometer channel where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic, reaching for a seven-square-mile scrap of Spain on the African shore. Most were young men. Some were children. They died over three days at the end of July, crushed against a breakwater barrier or pulled under while swimming around it, and within forty-eight hours of the last of them entering the water more than forty-eight thousand of the living had turned and…

[ad_1] An unseen battle is being waged across the digital landscape, turning the very devices we rely on into silent observers. Civil liberties organizations have persistently shined light a constellation of Israeli technology enterprises—many birthed by alumni of elite military intelligence units such as Unit 8200, Unit 81, and the Mossad—as pivotal actors in a burgeoning global commercial surveillance market. These firms have supplied powerful tools deployed against journalists, activists, political dissidents, and, in several verified instances, individuals residing within the United States and other Western democracies. Advocacy groups, including War on Want, emphasize that Israel serves as the global…

[ad_1] By turning voting machines, classified intelligence, and alleged foreign interference into political theater, the Trump administration is preparing voters to distrust an election that has not yet taken place. Donald Trump has never treated elections simply as contests to be won or lost. He treats them as tests of legitimacy whose results are valid only when they confirm his political authority. His planned national address on the “integrity” of voting machines therefore should not be dismissed as another attempt to relitigate the 2020 election. It may represent something more consequential: an effort to establish, before the 2026 midterms, a…

[ad_1] Takimag The Four-Letter Failure Today’s bandiers of obscenity could learn a thing or two from Greek. TakiMag Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images As an unfortunate birthday approaches, my movie director friend Michael Mailer asked what wish I’m about to make: “Keira and Lily, I’d even give them up for Americans to stop using the F-word,” was my answer. Be it used as an adverb, noun, or verb, the F-word is now as ubiquitous as “hello” once was, proof that the barbarians have breached the gates and are now lords of the manor. Hollywood, of course, heads the…

[ad_1] Iran’s Islamic revolution was not just an Islamic revolution. A diverse set of factions, from Marxist-Leninists to religious nationalists, participated in overthrowing the monarchy. But their hopes for shaping the postrevolutionary order were soon dashed as the first theocracy in Iranian history was established. Afshin Matin-Asgari, an Iranian-American historian and former student activist who put his life and studies in the 1970s on the line on the streets of Tehran, has felt the disillusionment acutely. Today, he is worried that the exiled Iranian opposition is repeating the errors of the 1979 generation. It is now the supporters of restoring…

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[ad_1] Why a military conflict with Iran could weaken the very sectors of the American economy that Trump claims to support The sharp swings in oil prices following the latest round of attacks and negotiations over safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz demonstrate that wars do not always reveal themselves first on the battlefield. Sometimes, their earliest signs appear on gas-station price boards, in transportation bills, and on the balance sheets of farmers standing thousands of miles from the front lines. Now that the confrontation between the United States and Iran has moved beyond pressure and deterrence and turned…