America’s Post-9/11 Reckoning
America’s Post-9/11 Reckoning By Adam Reed When George W. Bush stood before Congress just nine days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, heRead More »America’s Post-9/11 Reckoning
Nepal’s Glacier Collapse and the New Geography of Disaster
By Ahan S. Prakash The chunk of glacier that peeled off the mountain near the Nepal Tibet border didn’t just collapse. It fellRead More »Nepal’s Glacier Collapse and the New Geography of Disaster
Netanyahu’s Politics of Perpetual War
By Ketty L. Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely relied on peace to secure his political survival. His power rests on the cultivation of perpetualRead More »Netanyahu’s Politics of Perpetual War
Iran War: The Warnings Washington Ignored
By Ketty L. The recent Wall Street Journal report detailing pre war intelligence briefings delivered to the White House offers a stark accounting of strategicRead More »Iran War: The Warnings Washington Ignored
Why the U.S. Military Network Is Becoming a Liability for the Gulf
The joint US and Israeli strikes launched on February 28, 2026 were supposed to be a big, decisive flex, a show of Western muscle thatRead More »Why the U.S. Military Network Is Becoming a Liability for the Gulf
The Abraham Accords Have Hit a Wall
Normalization in the Middle East has gone from being talked about as some grand geopolitical inevitability to something that now feels more like a long,Read More »The Abraham Accords Have Hit a Wall
The Toll Booth in the Gulf: The Strategic Folly of Trump’s Hormuz Fee
Global energy trade has always been at the mercy of geopolitical theater, but what’s happening in the Persian Gulf right now has taken things toRead More »The Toll Booth in the Gulf: The Strategic Folly of Trump’s Hormuz Fee
The World Is Held Hostage by Two Political Clocks
Sophocles said something twenty five centuries ago that still holds up scarily well: pride breeds the tyrant. And weirdly enough, that ancient line is basicallyRead More »The World Is Held Hostage by Two Political Clocks
Is FIFA Governing Football, or Serving Power?
The 2026 World Cup has ceased to be a festival of sport. It has morphed into something far more clinical and unsettling. Beneath the slickRead More »Is FIFA Governing Football, or Serving Power?
The India-Taliban Axis: A Marriage of Strategic Desperation
The geopolitical landscape of South Asia is witnessing a remarkable exercise in strategic desperation as New Delhi seeks to rescue its fading regional relevance throughRead More »The India-Taliban Axis: A Marriage of Strategic Desperation
A Cry from Minab: How 168 Children Lost Their Lives to a Bureaucracy of Negligence
The latest revelations surrounding the catastrophic American airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyiba school in Minab, Iran, expose a devastating truth: this was not a tragicRead More »A Cry from Minab: How 168 Children Lost Their Lives to a Bureaucracy of Negligence
Two Scorpions, One Jar
The structural reality of the modern alliance between Washington and Jerusalem has shed its polite, diplomatic pretenses, exposing a raw, transactional dynamic between two deeplyRead More »Two Scorpions, One Jar