Pedro Sánchez Had It Coming as Spain Heads to a Snap Election
On September 23, María del Carmen Abascal, 87, was carried out of her flat on Calle Alcalde Sainz de Baranda on a stretcher. The crowd…
Allister Heath Is Right: Britain Is Poorer, More Backward and Less Relevant Than Britons Realise
My reflex with British declinism is to discount it. The country’s newspapers have been announcing its end since Suez, and Allister Heath, who edits the…
Trump Is Right About the AI Race With China, Even After the Coxon Warning
I have never found much to agree with in anything Donald Trump says about technology, and I’m not going to pretend his grasp of what…
How Authoritarian States Captured UN Machinery Under Guterres, and Why the Secretary-General Is Always Chosen Weak
The United Nations has not been taken over by authoritarian states. It has been used by them, which is a different problem and a harder…
Qatar and Turkey Funded the Infrastructure Behind Europe’s Palestine Protests
I don’t like conspiracy arguments and I don’t make them. When someone tells me a crowd is fake, or that a movement has a single…
Who’s Going to Tell Trump That Kim Jong Un’s “Respectful” Country Starves Its Own Citizens
I’m not one of those people who treats every American deployment abroad as sacred. The joint exercises with South Korea are expensive. Seoul is a…
Ukraine Picked the Right Target in Wildberries, and the Kremlin’s Reaction Proves It
I have spent most of this war as the person at the table who says economic pressure doesn’t end wars. Sanctions didn’t break Russia. The…
Trump, Iran, and the Mars Attacks Problem: Five Months of Cancelled Strikes
The joke writes itself, so let’s get it out of the way. Tim Burton made a film thirty years ago in which a president keeps…
Ceuta Border Surge Strips Sánchez of His Last Lever and Revives Spain’s Enclave Problem
On Thursday 30 July, thousands of people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta. Most came by sea, swimming or paddling inflatables the five kilometres from Fnideq…
Trip.com’s $765 Million Apology: What the SAMR Penalty Tells Foreign Companies About Doing Business in China
I’ve spent years arguing that Chinese antitrust enforcement is a political instrument wearing a legal costume — that SAMR investigations open when a founder says…
Trump’s Section 301 Probe of the EU Tech Fines Is Right, and It Pains Me to Write That
Let me clear the air first, because the rest of this only makes sense if you know where I’m standing. I don’t like this president.…
Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal Trades Nonproliferation for a Photo Op
Donald Trump has approved a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that could hand Riyadh the ability to enrich uranium on its own soil.…
France’s Social Media Ban Shows Why Europe Keeps Losing the Tech Race
France’s parliament has just passed a law barring anyone under 15 from holding a social media account, with new accounts blocked starting September 1 and…
Trump’s Greenland Obsession Makes No Sense. Why Not Qatar Instead?
Eighteen months into a fixation that shows no sign of ending, President Trump used the NATO summit in Ankara this month to revive his push…
Why Washington Criticizes Its Allies But Never Touches Qatar
Watch Washington long enough and a pattern emerges. Treaty allies get hauled over the coals in public. Israel’s prime minister has been dressed down by…
Netanyahu’s October Election Odds Slide After Trump and Vance Rebukes
Israelis go to the polls on October 27 in what is already being described as Benjamin Netanyahu’s last stand — the first national vote since…
JD Vance Courts the Anti-Israel Right in Early 2028 Positioning
Vice President JD Vance’s escalating public criticism of Israel is being read across Washington less as a foreign policy correction than as the opening move…
JD Vance Blames Israel for Prolonging Iran War as Ceasefire Unravels
Five months after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the war shows no sign of resolving into anything durable. What…
Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Year: A Disclosure That Doubles as a Conflict-of-Interest Ledger
The number is $1.4 billion, and the number is not the story. The story is what sits on either side of it. Donald Trump’s 2025…
JD Vance and the Grifter Generation: No Allies, No Principles, Only Power
Allysia Finley’s column this week says out loud what much of the pro-Israel right keeps muttering under its breath: that Donald Trump and JD Vance…
Trump’s Iran Deal: The U-Turn From Unconditional Surrender to All Carrots, No Stick
The war began in late February with a demand for unconditional surrender. It ends, four months later, with the President of the United States defending…
Trump’s Iranian Deal Delusion Syndrome: Why the Regime Cannot Change Without Force From Outside and Within
There is a recurring affliction in American foreign policy, and President Trump has caught the most acute case on record. Call it Iranian Deal Delusion…
The Deal That Won’t Hold — And Why That May Be Correct
The ceasefire negotiation with Iran is built on a category error: the assumption that the Islamic Republic is a rational actor seeking to survive. The…
Washington’s Iran Capitulation Will Cost More Than the Deal Is Worth
The framework taking shape between Washington and Tehran is not a diplomatic achievement. It is a document that legitimizes an Iranian nuclear program, rewards three…