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Trump’s Oil Waiver Gives Iran a Dangerous Financial Lifeline

Allowing Tehran to sell crude will only strengthen its grip over global energy flows.

Funding the Enemy: Trump Rolls Back Sanctions on Iran Without Any Guardrails

On the evening of March 20, the Trump administration issued Iran General License U (GL U), a one-month authorization for the sale of what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says will be approximately 140...

Deepfakes on the Front Lines: Iran’s AI Disinformation Campaign

The war with Iran has triggered a torrent of disturbing AI-generated imagery, videos, and narratives circulating widely on social media — such as smoke billowing from a Bahraini high-rise or rockets...

Domestic Politics May Impede Vietnam’s Growing Relationship With the U.S.

Vietnam is performing a balancing act, but it’s unclear how long it can keep the plates spinning. On March 16, Vietnam held its first ever “3+3” summit with China, a meeting that featured both...

Blacklisting the Brotherhood

The Trump administration made history on November 24, 2025, when it issued an executive order calling for the U.S. government to designate “certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist...

Why won’t US activists speak up for the tortured Iran women’s soccer team?

An athlete’s silent act of dissent can turn both her and her family into targets of intimidation under the rule of Iran’s radical Islamist regime. After refusing to sing the Islamic Republic’s anthem...

Pro-Iranian X Accounts Posing as Chinese, Russian, and North Korean

Iran has some imaginary friends. The United States and Israel are grinding down Iran’s war machine while Tehran’s fellow travelers, China, Russia, and North Korea, have largely limited their support...

Russia the Arsonist Wants to Play Firefighter

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to use Moscow’s close ties with Iran to restore calm in the Middle East after the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, which he condemned as “unprovoked aggression.”...

Can Ukraine’s state-of-the-art drone tech come to US aid in Iran?

President Donald Trump’s Department of War has rightly called Israel a “model ally” — and no wonder, as the world watches Israeli pilots operate alongside their American counterparts in the...

Trump Could End the War Tomorrow. I Don’t Think He Will.

Energy markets breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after President Donald Trump suggested he could declare victory over Iran at any time. “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” he told...

The Four Paths for a Post-Khamenei Iran

The U.S. is hoping for regime change in Iran, but what could happen if the Islamic Republic survives?

Countering Iran’s Covert Chemical Weapons Program

Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Allies, Adversaries, and the Axis

A few words of advice on Iran and Gaza    

From Cato the Elder, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Machiavelli

Investing 5% in Defense and Commitment to the U.S. Partnership

The battered Western alliance    

Repairing it is essential if we’re to win the current cold war

What Trump’s National Defense Strategy Gets Right — and Wrong

The Trump administration quietly released its 2026 National Defense Strategy on Friday evening as the largest storm in years barreled down on much of the United States. Much like the snow that...

Qatar Is Pushing for ‘Social Justice’ Lessons and Arabic Classes in US K-12 Schools

Federal legislation is needed to expose this influence operation

Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Chinese Communist Party