Opinion

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 the State Department, second-guessed by his own party's senators, and publicly abandoned mid-negotiation over an Iran ceasefire that his own government called a betrayal. Hungary gets lectured on democratic backsliding. Even … [Read more...] about Why Washington Criticizes Its Allies But Never Touches Qatar

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 the October 7, 2023 attacks, and one increasingly shaped not by Israeli politics alone but by open friction with Washington. Netanyahu was reportedly counting on the opposite dynamic. According to Israeli reporting, the prime minister … [Read more...] about Netanyahu’s October Election Odds Slide After Trump and Vance Rebukes

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 of a 2028 presidential campaign — one built on a wing of the Republican coalition that barely existed in national politics a decade ago. The remarks themselves have been unusually pointed for a sitting vice president. In … [Read more...] about JD Vance Courts the Anti-Israel Right in Early 2028 Positioning

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 began as a defined military campaign in late February has degenerated into a cycle of ceasefire, collapse, and renewed strikes, with a 60-day memorandum of understanding now the latest attempt to impose an endpoint on a … [Read more...] about JD Vance Blames Israel for Prolonging Iran War as Ceasefire Unravels

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 financial disclosure, filed with the Office of Government Ethics and released June 30, runs 927 pages. It reports more than $1.4 billion in crypto-related income for a single year — the largest source of the president's personal earnings during his … [Read more...] about Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Year: A Disclosure That Doubles as a Conflict-of-Interest Ledger