By Daniel Frost   Six years after the Abraham Accords were signed, the idea of a peaceful Middle East seems more distant than ever.Read More »Israel’s Peace Doctrine: Weak Neighbors, Endless War

  By Adam Reed   Naval history is full of floating metaphors, but the USS Forrest Sherman stands out, and not just for its punchline.Read More »A Superpower in Reverse: Washington’s Retreat from Its Allies

By Daniel Frost   The standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival lasted for twenty five minutes. People did not just clap, they wept.Read More »NAZA: The Algorithm Behind Gaza’s Genocide

By Adam Reed   Washington likes to talk about its exit from Afghanistan as if it is all in the past, just another closed chapterRead More »America’s Abandoned Arsenal in the Hands of the TTP

Donald Trump’s enthusiastic support for Benjamin Netanyahu right before Israel’s elections throws the spotlight on a stark moral double standard that runs through Western politics.Read More »Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu: The Politics of Selective Morality

By Adam Reed   The quiet eruption of border warfare between Eritrea and Ethiopia is not just another short lived regional spat, it is aRead More »Ethiopia and Eritrea: The High Stakes Fight for the Red Sea

  By Ahan S. Prakash   The Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board’s move to standardize Friday mosque sermons across Indian administered Kashmir is not someRead More »India’s Push to Script Friday Sermons in Kashmir

By Daniel Frost   The sting of overlapping crises just will not go away in Europe, it has become part of the air people breathe.Read More »Europe in Revolt: Protests, Austerity and the Rise of the Far Right

  By Adam Reed   The Middle East’s strategic picture is constantly shifting, with old rivalries rubbing up against dramatic new economic dreams. Right inRead More »Israel’s Military Offer: A Strategic Trap for Saudi Arabia

  By Ketty L.   Classic democratic theory rests on a simple idea: government gets its legitimacy from the people, mainly through fair elections whereRead More »The Rise of the American Oligarchy

  By Adam Reed   We’re well into the age of bots, a decade deep, in fact. It’s an era defined by relentless social mediaRead More »Democracy in the Grip of Big Tech

  By Ketty L.   There’s something deeply unsettling about using secularism as an excuse to police what women wear. Telling a woman how sheRead More »Azerbaijan’s Hijab Ban: The Hypocrisy of Secularism