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With the Middle East in flames, President Donald Trump’s desperate lobbying campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize looks ever more…

It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the…

A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real…

Three US officials speaking with Axios claimed that President Donald Trump does not plan to have an open-ended ceasefire with…

Data from the shipping tracking firm Vortexa found that at least 34 Iranian ships have bypassed the US blockade since…

Dear Reader, The war in Iran has been halted by a tenuous ceasefire– one that could break imminently. As the…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, is a clarion call for Silicon Valley to abandon its consumer trinkets…

“War is the continuation of politics by other means” is Clausewitz’s most famous dictum.  Lebanon has suffered far too much…

Vice President J.D. Vance should have touched down in Islamabad today for round two of peace talks with Iran, but…

A report by the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that the US depleted half…