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The Truth About America’s Munitions Crisis
While the shortage is real, a faction inside the White House is using it as political cover to avoid escalating against Iran, and the media is accepting…
Park MacDougald
Mr. President, Give Up on a Nuclear Deal With Iran
Tehran will never give Trump the kind of agreement he wants. The impasse won’t end until he realizes that and takes a new approach.
Eli Lake
The Rise of the Navy SEALs, with Ben Milligan
The history of the Navy SEALs reveals not only how they were built but also how they must continue to evolve.
Aaron MacLean
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History Was Sentenced to Death in My City. It Survived.
My home of Mosul, in northern Iraq, survived the most complete anti-history project of the 21st century. It is immensely premature to say we are now…
Omar Mohammed
How Fergie Chambers Built a Radical Funding Network and Landed in a Spanish Jail
The millionaire Marxist inherited $250m. Now he’s facing charges of supporting international terrorist groups.
Jay Solomon
How Trump Decided to Go to War with Iran, with Jonathan Swan
How does Donald Trump make foreign policy decisions? We examine the debates and personalities shaping his presidency.
Aaron MacLean
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Iran’s Killing Machine Is Operating in Plain Sight
Two Iranian teenagers were just executed for opening their doors to fleeing protesters. They are only the latest victims of a regime that uses the…
Masih Alinejad
Ro Khanna’s Rude Awakening
The Democratic congressman has been pandering to the anti-Israel left for months. In a podcast interview this week, he realized what his new bedfellows…
Eli Lake
How Wikipedia Turned a World Cup Controversy Into an Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory
The referee of the Argentina-Egypt match isn’t Jewish. But when his Wikipedia page was changed to say that he is, an even bigger set of lies about…
Ashley Rindsberg
The Iran the Funeral Cameras Don’t Show
For decades, Tehran has used mass spectacles to project strength. Khamenei’s funeral reveals how much of that strength is actually performance.
Masih Alinejad
Is Ukraine Winning the War?
Ukraine’s strikes against Russia’s industrial base have been spectacularly successful. But it is still far too early to predict how the war will end.
Aaron MacLean
This Week in Canada: A Controversial Call to Prayer
Religious freedom is tested by a mosque’s loudspeakers, our multicultural calendar is full, paying ‘lip service’ to DEI, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
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