By Connor Echols on Apr 15, 2025 12:01 am Few American politicians can claim to back Israel more emphatically than Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.). Read in browser »
By Trita Parsi on Apr 13, 2025 07:21 am Donald Trump’s first diplomatic encounter with Tehran could not have gone any better. Bothsides described the talks held in Oman as positive and constructive. But the true sign of their success was that the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, agreed to speak directly to Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff. Read in browser »
By Jake Werner on Apr 09, 2025 02:43 pm Today Trump suspended his global trade war with all countries except China. This confirms that, even as all eyes were on the chaos in the financial markets, the far bigger threat from Trump’s “liberation day” was a sharp escalation in the US–China conflict that could now plausibly turn violent within the next couple years. Read in browser »
By Geoffrey Aronson on Apr 09, 2025 12:05 am Reports this week, based on satellite footage and witness testimony from IDF soldiers, reveal that Israel has carved out a nearly one-mile deep "buffer zone" inside Gaza along the border with Israel. Almost all economic and residential infrastructure within this region has been demolished and Gazans living and working in the area have been forcibly relocated. Read in browser »
By Anatol Lieven on Apr 09, 2025 12:05 am On the question of an early temporary ceasefire in Ukraine, the Trump administration might be described as being wrong for the right reasons, and the Putin administration as right for the wrong reasons. Read in browser »
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Few American politicians can claim to back Israel more emphatically than Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.).
Donald Trump’s first diplomatic encounter with Tehran could not have gone any better. 
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