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February 20, 2026
The Supreme Court just blew up Trump’s foreign policy
President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy so far has been to speak loudly and carry a big stick. On Friday, the Supreme Court took away his favorite stick. From Cuba, to China, to Greenla...
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February 19, 2026
It really looks like we’re about to bomb Iran again
The US military is in the midst of its largest build-up of forces in the Middle East in decades, in preparation for some sort of military action in Iran. Military officials say strikes could come a...
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February 13, 2026
Trump’s biggest war is one he almost never talks about
On February 3, President Donald Trump posted a Fox News article about a US strike targeting ISIS leaders in Somalia, along with an inflammatory insult aimed at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who arrived...
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February 11, 2026
What we know about the mysterious closure and reopening of the El Paso airport
The El Paso International Airport will apparently not be closed for 10 days, despite an earlier announcement that set off an overnight panic. But the reasons why the closure was announced in the fi...
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February 10, 2026
The Epstein files might bring down a government. Just not the US government.
The questions about the exact nature of Donald Trump’s relationship with the late financier and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein that have dogged his presidency in both terms were given fresh life l...
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February 3, 2026
Is a new US-Russia arms race about to begin?
Barring a major unforeseen announcement from Washington or Moscow, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Wednesday. It’s been a long, sl...
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January 27, 2026
China is purging its military leaders. Is this a step toward war?
In recent years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been systematically purging his country’s senior military leaders, part of an overall campaign that has meted out punishment to some 200,000 officials...
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January 25, 2026
The world just passed a surprisingly positive milestone on nuclear weapons
The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace an...
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January 21, 2026
The week Europe fought back
The great Greenland war of 2026 appears to be on hold for the moment. This week’s World Economic Forum in Davos has been largely overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s demand that the US take co...
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January 16, 2026
Trump is waffling on Iran strikes. Here are four possible reasons why.
Is help really “on its way” for Iran’s protesters? That’s what President Donald Trump promised in a Truth Social post earlier this week, adding that “Iranians Patriots” should “KEEP PROTESTING – TA...
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January 9, 2026
Is this time different in Iran?
On Thursday night, the Iran government cut off internet service and international calling in the country as anti-government protests broke out throughout the country. Videos that made it to social ...
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January 8, 2026
Can anyone stop Trump from seizing Greenland?
No one is laughing about Greenland anymore. President Donald Trump’s frequently expressed desire for the US to take possession of the world’s largest island may once have been treated as a lark, tr...
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January 6, 2026
What actually is the “Donroe Doctrine”?
The Trump administration is taking a shockingly interventionist approach to the Western Hemisphere, as shown by last weekend’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his threats of mili...
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January 3, 2026
Trump says the US is going to “run” Venezuela. What does that mean?
For months, as the US has built up military forces around Venezuela, attacking alleged drug boats and seizing sanctioned oil tankers, the big question was whether the US would escalate to a campaig...
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January 3, 2026
Why Trump sent in troops to capture Maduro, briefly explained
President Trump announced Saturday morning that the United States has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying that the US had flown Maduro to a military ship off the country’s coast an...
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January 2, 2026
How to kill a rogue AI
It’s advice as old as tech support. If your computer is doing something you don’t like, try turning it off and then on again. When it comes to the growing concerns that a highly advanced artificial...
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December 24, 2025
Trump is talking about Greenland again
2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland. On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland with the goal, ...
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December 22, 2025
2025 was the year everything changed for the US and China
When the dust settles on a year that included a ceasefire in the brutal war in Gaza, persistent but ultimately fruitless efforts to end the war in Ukraine, and the ramp up to a potential war in Ven...
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December 16, 2025
Is ISIS back?
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today described the deadly terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach as being “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” But, this ma...
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December 12, 2025
The global shadow economy behind Trump’s latest move on Venezuela
Following this week’s seizure of a sanctioned ship off the coast of Venezuela, the Trump administration says it will be targeting more oil tankers off the Venezuelan coast. This is, first and forem...
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December 10, 2025
The fierce debate behind Trump’s move on selling AI chips to China
This week, President Donald Trump announced that he would allow US chipmaker Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chips to China, describing the move as overturning a failed Biden administration policy...
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December 9, 2025
There is a real chance of a US-Venezuela war — so why does it feel fake?
The post-modern philosopher Jean Baudrillard infamously argued in 1991 that the Gulf War did not take place, by which he did not mean that no fighting had actually occurred, but that the real event...
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December 6, 2025
Confused by the Trump administration? Think of it as a royal family.
It was not a particularly subtle gift, but as the recipient himself would probably admit, he’s never been a particularly subtle guy. When President Donald Trump arrived in South Korea last month, ...
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December 5, 2025
America has a new clash of civilizations — with European liberals
America is out of the business of giving patronizing lectures to other governments about how to run their countries and trying to mold other societies in its own image… except for the countries of ...
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December 2, 2025
Why is Trump suddenly so obsessed with Honduras?
The US may or may not be marching toward war with Venezuela, but at the moment, there’s another Latin American country that seems to be occupying President Donald Trump’s attention. Counting is cu...
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December 1, 2025
Why is the US on the verge of war with Venezuela?
Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in the Caribbean and launching airstrikes on alleged drug boats, fueling speculation that it is planning a major military opera...
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November 26, 2025
Is there any peace deal that Putin would accept?
The 28-point peace plan is now a 19-point peace plan. President Donald Trump says the plan for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine that was presented to Kyiv last week, and was so heavily tilted toward...
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