Rethinking U.S. Security Guarantees in the Gulf
Iran’s strategic strikes have exploded the myth that America’s military presence can shield the Gulf’s vulnerable economies. Wars in the Middle East are often decided less by what is destroyed than...
Why Trump’s Push to Expand the Abraham Accords Is Destined to Fail?
As negotiations to end the Iran war continued on May 25, Donald Trump made a series of phone calls in which he pressed key leaders from the Middle East to join the Abraham Accords. Announced in 2020, these accords established diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states, beginning...
Iran: Why Does Leadership Decapitation Fail?
The coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes at the outset of the war in Iran killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with other key regime figures. In doing so, the United States and Israel crossed what...
Pope Leo: Peace and Human Dignity are Central
When he was elected pope on May 8, 2025, Robert Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, greeted the crowd with Christ’s words to his disciples: “Peace be with you.” Peace has become a central theme of the pontificate of the first American pope. In recent months, opposing the war in the Middle East,...
Archives
Bringing God into War: The Biblical Interpretation of the War in Iran by Some Conservative Christians
As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East. In a sermon on March 1, 2026, for example, John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, described...
The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran: What comes next?
Shortly after the opening salvo of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026 – with missiles targeting cities across the country, some of which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – President Donald Trump declared the objective was to destroy Iran’s military capabilities and give rise...
America at the Edge of a Multipolar World
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: Strategic Realism or Doctrinal Exhaustion? The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) issued under Donald Trump is less a roadmap for American power than a political artifact of an era marked by exhaustion, anxiety, and systemic transition. Drafted amid...
Maduro’s Capture: The Warning of a Historian
The United States military recently carried out a covert operation to capture and then remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, transporting them from Caracas to New York. The pair is accused of narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and money laundering. President Donald...
When Stories Become Forests: How India’s Folklore Can Guide Its Ecological Future
“The earth is our mother, and we are her children.” As India grapples with climate extremes, disappearing forests, polluted rivers, and accelerating biodiversity loss, policy experts increasingly look to scientific and technological solutions. Yet millions across the country continue to draw...
Active Clubs: Hidding Behind Sport to Hate?
Photos of young men with bare chests and arms crossed standing in front of flags with runic or Celtic symbols are multiplying on social media. These images are not of ordinary sports clubs, but show a transnational far-right network called Active Clubs. Hidden behind the innocuous rhetoric of...
Zohran Mamdani’s Transformative Politics in NYC Starts with Child Care
Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist, was elected New York City’s mayor on Nov. 4, 2025, after pledging to make the city more affordable through policies that include freezing rents, providing free public buses, and a network of city-owned grocery...
Toronto Blue Jays: Amid Canada-U.S. Tensions, ‘Canada’s Team’ is Excelling at America’s Pastime
Amid threats from United States President Donald Trump to make Canada the 51st state, the Toronto Blue Jays’ season started with protocols aimed at avoiding booing during the American national anthem and the removal of someone wearing a “Canada is not for sale hat” at the ballpark. Nonetheless,...
Japan’s Economy Needs Foreign Workers, Not the Nationalist Approach Pushed by its New Leader
Sanae Takaichi has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister. However, this was hardly a win for feminist or progressive politics. Takaichi is a right-wing ultraconservative whose policy positions derive from traditionalist perspectives on the role of women, Japanese history,...
Trump’s Peace Plan and the Fundamental Task of Reconciliation in the Middle East
Few events are more welcome than a ceasefire, even when the ceasefire has come far more slowly than it could and should have done. What now needs to be achieved in Gaza and in the wider Middle East is a task far larger than the also difficult task of sustaining the ceasefire in the short term: it...
