Geopolitics & international affairs
President Donald Trump is deploying a classic good cop, bad cop strategy on Iran, casting Vice President JD Vance as the dove and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the hawk in what Axios has dubbed his “Swiss Army” approach to diplomacy. The image is vivid: a dove perched on one figurative shoulder, a hawk […]
EU gets tough on China as trade imbalance stokes deindustrialization fears The European Union is finally admitting what its industrialists have been saying for years: the trade relationship with China is not working, and the costs are no longer theoretical. Talks between EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Brussels […]
It looked, for a moment, like Iran’s ruling establishment had finally found common ground. After months of devastating war, an April cease-fire, and 70 days of indirect talks brokered by Pakistan and Qatar, Tehran and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-June ending hostilities. The entire establishment lined up behind the agreement. The foreign […]
The GOP’s slow-motion fracture with Israel Benjamin Netanyahu long ago lost the Democratic Party. Now he is losing the Republican base too, and the numbers are stark enough to suggest a structural realignment in American politics. For decades, support for Israel was one of the few truly bipartisan pillars of U.S. foreign policy. That pillar […]
Iran Denies Trump’s Claim of Doha Meeting as Hormuz Tensions Simmer A diplomatic fog hangs over the Persian Gulf after President Donald Trump announced that Iran had “requested a meeting” for Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, only for Tehran to flatly deny any such talks were scheduled. The dueling statements came hours after both sides agreed […]
One win, three losses: Trump’s dramatic day at the Supreme Court On the second-to-last day of its term, the Supreme Court delivered President Donald Trump the biggest expansion of presidential power in nearly a century. It also handed him three defeats that cut directly into his policy agenda. The day revealed a court willing to […]
Iran Denies Trump’s Claim of Doha Meeting as Hormuz Tensions Simmer A diplomatic fog hangs over the Persian Gulf after President Donald Trump announced that Iran had “requested a meeting” for Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, only for Tehran to flatly deny any such talks were scheduled. The dueling statements came hours after both sides agreed […]
Israeli Strike Hits Tents in Gaza Humanitarian Zone, Killing Two and Wounding Dozens An Israeli airstrike struck tents sheltering displaced families in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis on Monday, killing at least two people and setting several tents ablaze in a zone the Israeli military itself had designated as a humanitarian safe area. The […]
The GOP’s slow-motion fracture with Israel Benjamin Netanyahu long ago lost the Democratic Party. Now he is losing the Republican base too, and the numbers are stark enough to suggest a structural realignment in American politics. For decades, support for Israel was one of the few truly bipartisan pillars of U.S. foreign policy. That pillar […]
Israeli Strike Hits Tents in Gaza Humanitarian Zone, Killing Two and Wounding Dozens An Israeli airstrike struck tents sheltering displaced families in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis on Monday, killing at least two people and setting several tents ablaze in a zone the Israeli military itself had designated as a humanitarian safe area. The […]
