1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (392+ words) The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. Yesterday morning, those delusions drifted away like smoke as Houthi forces broke through their enemies’ defenses and seized the towns and islands around the Bab…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (215+ words) The military is doing long-term planning for its force in the Persian Gulf, risking further strain on the Navy. To hear the Trump administration tell it, the war with Iran is all but over. U.S. military posture tells a different story:…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (193+ words) The U.S. and Iran are engaged in a conflict that is massive in scale but personal in nature. Assassination was clearly on Trump’s mind when the elder Khamenei was killed. “I got him before he got me,” Trump told ABC News’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (259+ words) A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support. The man, who goes by Serviuos, is promoting a campaign called Elephant Clipping, run by his company, ClipIt. The company pays subcontractors,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (171+ words) The shift to an economic pressure campaign could also push the conflict out of the minds of voters. If nothing else, the new approach allows the White House to say it’s trying something and then—importantly—to stop talking about…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (75+ words) The Atlantic The AfD could do something next month that would mark a first in the country’s postwar history. “Every organ of elite opinion tells people they can’t vote for the AfD,” a German diplomat told me. “And many people…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (395+ words) The Trump administration gave its own explanation for why sanctions against Tehran won’t work. No sooner had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the latest tool for achieving what he said would be the “economic asphyxiation” of Iran than he revealed…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1398+ words) The tiny Gulf state is learning that the U.S. president doesn’t always keep his end of the deal. Donald Trump really wanted the plane. The Qataris had flown the $400 million Boeing 747 to West Palm Beach just after he returned to the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (477+ words) The office of Iran’s supreme leader has fallen quiet, fueling uncertainty in a country with decisions to make. Last Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei hosted a wake for his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Among the thousands who…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (526+ words) The latest target of Trump’s ire is the low-profile Sultanate of Oman. When the United States was looking for a way to talk to Iran about a nuclear deal more than a decade ago, it turned to Oman, asking the…...