The Man Who Shaped Washington’s View of the Middle East: Brett McGurk Advised Four Presidents — But to What End?
On a Late-Night Stage, a Very Washington Reckoning The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is not typically where American grand […]
A Wait in the Strait: Why Shipping Giants Are Still Frozen Despite the Hormuz Cease-Fire
Shipping companies are reacting with extreme caution as Hormuz cease-fire terms remain uncertain. Here’s why the Strait of Hormuz standstill
How Iran Should End the War: A Deal Tehran Could Take
The Strait of Hormuz is bleeding the world. Tehran still holds cards — but the clock is running out to
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
WTO Reform Talks Collapse Over US-Brazil Stand-Off: A Setback for Global Trade
Night the Rules Ran Out Just before dawn on Monday in Yaoundé, Cameroon, bleary-eyed diplomats shuffled out of a cavernous
No Kings Protests 2026: Millions March in What Could Be the Largest Day of Demonstrations in U.S. History
Millions joined the No Kings protests on March 28, 2026, across all 50 states and a dozen countries, targeting Trump’s
The Strategic Shift: Why India is Frustrated by Pakistan’s Sudden Mediatory Role in the US-Iran Conflict
Islamabad’s Unlikely Ascent to Center Stage The Persian Gulf has always been a chessboard where empires and regional powers jostle
Beyond Hormuz: The Five Fragile Keys Locking Global Trade in 2026 | Maritime Chokepoints Crisis
How a 19th-century admiral’s warning became the defining geopolitical reality of our time—and why the world’s most critical shipping routes
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
Pakistan Emerges as Peace Broker in US-Iran War: How Islamabad’s Trump Ties and Tehran Links Could Reshape Global Diplomacy
Pakistan is quietly threading the needle between Washington and Tehran — wielding a decade of strategic positioning, a surprising crypto
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