1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (352+ words) The fragile truce between the United States and Iran did not collapse because of a sudden spike in religious fervor or a breakdown in diplomatic etiquette. It disintegrated because of a fundamental, irreconcilable disagreement over who owns the toll booth…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (501+ words) This reading of British foreign policy is fundamentally flawed. It mistakes a calculated domestic containment strategy for a series of clumsy diplomatic errors. Western political parties do not determine their foreign policy based on abstract morality, regardless of what their…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (520+ words) Western analysts love a good ghost story. For decades, the foreign policy establishment has obsessed over the health, visibility, and daily schedule of Iran’s Supreme Leader. Every time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei skips a public address or retreats from the cameras,…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (533+ words) The international press loves a good spectacle. When the state media footage rolled out showing thousands gathered in Mashhad for the burial of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, global newsrooms ran the exact same script. They painted a…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (369+ words) A vital link in the conspiracy involves a regional politician and former paramilitary leader who met with the brother of the lead bomber while in prison on separate murder charges. According to formal statements delivered to European intelligence agencies by…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (371+ words) Let's look at why Farage actually ran away from his job. It wasn't about giving the people of Clacton a voice. It was entirely about stopping an independent investigation into his personal finances. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg,…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (523+ words) The Illusion of Cohesion at the Jamkaran Mosque Lavender Hotel...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (510+ words) For fifty years, Watergate stood as the baseline consensus for the limits of American presidential authority. The break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the subsequent cover-up established clear legal boundaries regarding executive privilege and the obstruction of justice....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (870+ words) You think your tax headaches end when you file your annual return. They don't. If you're earning decent money outside a standard paycheck, the Income Tax Department wants its cut ahead of time. It is called advance tax. The very…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (280+ words) For decades, the Justice Department maintained its authority through an unwritten code of structural insulation. Prosecutors followed the evidence, not the political winds. The friction was not merely ideological. It was operational. Dannehy objected. She argued that releasing incomplete findings…...