America at 250: Can a Divided Nation Celebrate Together?
Betsy Halsey, a 63-year-old retired teacher from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, has memorabilia from America's 1976 bicentennial, but she refuses to celebrate the upcoming 250th anniversary...
The De-Americanisation of European Defense?
The second Trump administration has recentred the military within elite security discourse, upping the ante on defense spending. This trend spilled over into the...
Are JD Vance and Marco Rubio Split on Iran and Israel?
The Trump administration has worked to project a unified foreign policy following the preliminary US Iran peace agreement, but recent remarks by Vice President...
Why Washington Would Buy Diego Garcia: America’s Strategic Calculus
In June 2026, reports surfaced that Washington had begun considering a plan to purchase the Chagos Islands outright from Mauritius, bypassing London and dealing...
Who Is Abelardo De La Espriella? Colombia’s New Right Wing President
Nationalist lawyer and businessman Abelardo De La Espriella has been elected Colombia's next president, marking a major political shift in one of Latin America's...
Trump Unveils Qatari Boeing 747 Set to Join Air Force One Fleet
President Donald Trump viewed his upgraded Boeing 747, a jet gifted by Qatar, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. He called it the world's...
Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine Is Taking Shape: The Strategic Logic of America First 2.0
Half way through 2026, the world has already experienced a whirlwind of geopolitical change under the seismic foreign policy shifts enacted by US President...
Hegemony, Sovereignty, and the Price of the American Guarantee
The American attempt to end the war with Iran on its own terms has also been an attempt to rearrange the region around it....
Exploitation Lies Behind a Veil of Diplomacy in Iran
Behind a veil of good-natured diplomacy, American adversaries are exploiting the conflict in Iran by gaining insights, strategic lessons, and geopolitical power while the...
Has Trump Found an Exit From the Iran War or Simply Frozen a More Dangerous Conflict?
The conflict began after U.S. and Israeli strikes targeted Iranian military and nuclear facilities. Washington framed the campaign as necessary to eliminate Iran's nuclear...