Will Iran Break Trumpism?
Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war? That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s a contributing editor at the conservative publication t...
27 Mar 1h 8min
How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?
Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include more strikes on energy infrastructure in the region — ...
24 Mar 1h 2min
We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ Now
Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to describe. But among other things, it traces the new ...
20 Mar 1h 20min
What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran
The Trump administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to this war. And the United States, Iran and Israel were brought to the brink of war in the first place because of a whole series of misju...
14 Mar 1h 31min
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War
I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on Iran. I don’t think the administration is prepared f...
10 Mar 1h
Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation ...
6 Mar 1h 9min
The Great Lie of War
Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart. On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...
3 Mar 1h 10min
Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union
President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he decided to tell the American people: You don’t know ...
25 Feb 46min
