Vance’s ‘Final Offer’ in Islamabad: How the U.S.-Iran Talks Failed—and What It Means for the World
By Nathaniel Cross, Senior International Affairs Analyst and Contributor to The New York Times, Forbes, and Foreign Affairs. The sun […]
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The Weight of Islamabad: What JD Vance’s Iran Gamble Tells Us About America — and the World
He boarded Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews on a Friday morning and, in doing so, stepped into history.
How Iran Should End the War: A Deal Tehran Could Take
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Donald Trump and the art of bad diplomacy
The scene was meant to project dominance. As President Trump returned to Washington from a weekend in Florida, he boasted
No Kings Protests 2026: Millions March in What Could Be the Largest Day of Demonstrations in U.S. History
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The Strategic Shift: Why India is Frustrated by Pakistan’s Sudden Mediatory Role in the US-Iran Conflict
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MH17 was the warning. The Middle East is the test. Aviation safety faces new challenges amid conflict
Imagine you are thirty-five thousand feet above the Persian Gulf, somewhere between the glittering corridors of Doha and the haze-shrouded
The False Promise of “Flexible Realism” — Trump’s War on Iran Reveals a Foreign Policy Without Principles
There is a particular audacity to naming a foreign policy doctrine after an intellectual tradition you are simultaneously dismantling. The
Trump, Xi, and the Specter of 1914: How America and China Can Avoid the Blunders That Led to World War I
A war nobody planned for, on a timetable nobody set, triggered by a crisis nobody fully understood — that was
Could the Iran War Trigger a Global Economic Crisis?
On the morning of February 28, 2026, the world woke up to a new and terrifying arithmetic. U.S. and Israeli
US Military ‘Not Ready’ for Hormuz Conflict: Chris Wright Warns of $100 Oil Shock
For the first time since the Tanker War of the 1980s, the world’s most critical energy artery has become a
Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader Signals Iran Will Not Blink
An IRGC-Backed Coronation in the Shadow of War On the morning of March 8, 2026, the Islamic Republic of Iran