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Done and Dusted? Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality.

Done and Dusted? Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality. President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States. By Anton Troianovski, NY Times President...

Iran’s military forces combine state‑of‑the‑art drones and hackers with out‑of‑date conventional weapons

Iran’s military forces combine state‑of‑the‑art drones and hackers with out‑of‑date conventional weapons By Paul J. Springer, Air University Six weeks of U.S. and Israeli bombardment have served...
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Done and Dusted? Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality.

Done and Dusted? Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality. President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his...

Zeihan: The Blockade of Iran Begins

Today, Peter Zeihan discusses the latest developments in the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The video will be available to his non-subscribers...

Iran’s military forces combine state‑of‑the‑art drones and hackers with out‑of‑date conventional weapons

Iran’s military forces combine state‑of‑the‑art drones and hackers with out‑of‑date conventional weapons By Paul J. Springer, Air University Six weeks of U.S. and Israeli bombardment have served...

4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game

4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game By Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University   “Never interrupt your enemy when...

Strait of Hormuz: Why the US and Iran are sailing in very different legal waters

Strait of Hormuz: Why the US and Iran are sailing in very different legal waters By Elizabeth Mendenhall, University of Rhode Island The Strait of Hormuz exists...

Iran Controls the Strait → The U.S. May Flip the Global System

Iran is dictating who moves through the world’s most important oil chokepoint. Now the U.S. response could reshape global trade. In the March 27, 2026...

The Islamabad talks were doomed to failure – and Hormuz blockade has thrown another obstacle to any Iran‑US deal

The Islamabad talks were doomed to failure – and Hormuz blockade has thrown another obstacle to any Iran‑US deal By Farah N. Jan, University of...

What a ‘Blockade’ in the Strait of Hormuz Really Means

What a ‘Blockade’ in the Strait of Hormuz Really Means It’s not as easy as it sounds. By Mark Hertling, The Bulwark   I STARTED MY ARMY...

Immigrants Are Scared to File Taxes. It Could Cost the U.S. Billions.

Immigrants Are Scared to File Taxes. It Could Cost the U.S. Billions. Fears that the I.R.S. could share their data with ICE have turned tax...

What the Naval Blockade of Iran Might Look Like

What the Naval Blockade of Iran Might Look Like The U.S. military has provided few details on how it might carry out President Trump’s orders...

The President’s Portfolio

The President's Portfolio From a memecoin launched days before his inauguration to a secret half-billion-dollar deal with a UAE spy chief, Donald Trump has built an...

Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Blockade’ Strait of Hormuz After No Peace Deal Reached

Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Blockade’ Strait of Hormuz After No Peace Deal Reached Vice President JD Vance said that marathon talks between the United States...

AI vs. Cybersecurity Stocks

AI vs. Cybersecurity Stocks What Anthropic’s Claude Announcements Really Mean for cybersecurity stocks (NET, CRWD, RBRK, ZS, NTSK, S, and PANW) An investor’s plain-English guide to...

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem What happens when AI can hack everything? By Matteo Wong, The Atlantic    For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a...

Peter Zeihan: What This Ceasefire Actually Means

This is a summary of the transcript from Peter Zeihan's "What Does This Ceasefire Actually Mean? ~ Apr. 9, 2026", which is subscription-based so...

Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran

Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran By Ian Bremmer  In this “ask ian,” Ian Bremmer breaks down the newly announced two-week ceasefire between the US and...

Trump Made a Deal That Gives Him Nothing He Wanted

Trump Made a Deal That Gives Him Nothing He Wanted U.S. declarations of victory ring hollow. By Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic  President Trump said he went to...

U.S. and Iran Reach Two-Week Ceasefire with “Coordinated” Hormuz Reopening

U.S. and Iran Reach Two-Week Ceasefire with "Coordinated" Hormuz Reopening Markets reacted immediately to the announcement, with oil dropping sharply and equities moving higher after...

Trump’s Fundamental Misunderstanding in Iran

What makes the nation suffer helps the regime thrive. One of the U.S. government’s recurring mistakes about Iran has been to conflate the country’s national interests with regime interests. The two are in many ways opposites. What benefits the Iranian people—global economic reintegration, diplomatic …

Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure

As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical …

Trump Looks Frantic

Trump Looks Frantic So much bluster signifying nothing By David Frum, The Atlantic  Presiddent Trump’s threat on Truth Social this morning to destroy 25 centuries of Persian civilization in a single...

Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display

Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display What China can learn about the limits of American military capacity By Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic  President Trump is stuck. Before...

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem What happens when AI can hack everything? By Matteo Wong, The Atlantic    For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a...

Alphabet Climbs 5%: Google’s Nine-Minute Bitcoin Warning Is Turning Heads on Wall Street

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) shares rose approximately 4.83% in Tuesday’s session, climbing from an opening price of $273.50 to trade at around $287. The …

Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management

Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management By Nara Parameswaran, Michigan State University Fielding frantic...

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story By Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University The...

COVID‑19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know

COVID‑19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know By Kyle B. Enfield, University of Virginia   A variant...

As Fertilizer Falls, Famine Will Follow

As Fertilizer Falls, Famine Will Follow By Peter Zeihan Now that the Strait of Hormuz is shut down due to the Iran war, the impact is beginning...

Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout

Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout By Rob Nicholls, University of Sydney   Social media platforms...

Jury finds Instagram and YouTube addictive in lawsuit poised to reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

Jury finds Instagram and YouTube addictive in lawsuit poised to reshape social media – platform design meets product liability By Carolina Rossini, UMass Amherst   The verdict...