Can Syria Offer an Alternative to Hormuz?
By Adam Reed When Donald Trump publicly endorsed Syria as a possible overland route to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, he didn’t justRead More »Can Syria Offer an Alternative to Hormuz?
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
Israel’s Eighth Front: The Campaign to Control Minds
By Ketty L. When Netanyahu met with evangelical leaders and university heads in Florida to discuss what he called a seven front war, he introducedRead More »Israel’s Eighth Front: The Campaign to Control Minds
From Mamdani to El Sayed: Is American Politics Changing?
By Ketty L. | Columnist on Politics & International Affairs The political playbook that governed US elections for a quarter century is quietly falling apart.Read More »From Mamdani to El Sayed: Is American Politics Changing?
India’s Students Won a Battle. Can They Win the Future?
Youth Uprising, Structural Decay, and the Limits of Majoritarian Control When a political regime spends over a decade perfecting a system built on fear andRead More »India’s Students Won a Battle. Can They Win the Future?
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
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?
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
Whose Independence?
The United States marks its semi-quincentennial under a heavy blanket of historical irony and deep domestic fracture. As the nation hits the 250-year milestone, theRead More »Whose Independence?
More Than a Funeral
The streets of Tehran have turned into a massive sea of black-clad mourners as the delayed state funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei finally began. MillionsRead More »More Than a Funeral
The Race for Libya: Between UN Promises and American Interests
The Race for Libya: Between UN Promises and American Interests Fifteen years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains trapped in a cycle ofRead More »The Race for Libya: Between UN Promises and American Interests
Can the US Control Israel?
In the heart of the current dilemma plaguing West Asia is a much more troubling situation for the US administration: whether the United States willRead More »Can the US Control Israel?