The absolute state of America in its late-stage empire era is perfectly illustrated by the weekly, sometimes daily, cultural event of checking social media to see what unhinged post the president has left for us this time. This week’s installment, as the latest...
Like most of you, I have been watching in shocked bewilderment the breathtaking stupidity of the Trump administration’s war on Iran, brought to us by the same kind of liars who sold us the same kind of lies about “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. United States...
For anyone who has been paying attention to the metastasizing national debt and the fiscal recklessness that has defined Washington for the past two decades, the latest proposal from the Trump administration can be met only by a mixture of disgust and grim...
April 16 is the day I become an American. In the fullest sense of the word, I will also become a dual citizen with Australia, the country where I grew up. I am deeply thankful for this privilege. Yet I cannot help but reflect on the widening chasm between the founding...
On February 24, 2026, Donald Trump, the president of the United States now in the second year of his second term, entered the United States Congress on Capitol Hill and delivered what Ronald Reagan’s favorite speechwriter called “the Oprah State of the Union”: an...
Trial by jury isn’t just a British legal and cultural tradition. It isn’t just a part of our legal system. It’s a safeguard against the tyranny of the state. To be judged by your peers is to be judged by the society of which you make up but one part. The people are...
Iran is not some fragile backwater that will crumble under the weight of American bombs. It is a civilization state with thousands of years of continuous existence, a population of ninety million people, and a geography of mountains, deserts, and underground...
In a 2007 video, retired General Wesley Clark described the moment, in the early days of U.S. operations in Afghanistan, where he learned of a Department of Defense agenda flagging seven Middle Eastern countries for destruction. Beginning with Iraq, it would proceed...
Are the people as clueless as the Deep State expects them to be? You have to wonder. Standing on the tarmac in France before meetings with European foreign ministers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained to reporters that for Iran to ever get nuclear weapons would...
On March 24, 2026, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un made it official that his country is now an unapologetic nuclear weapons power. In an address to the rubber stamp Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim stated: "We will...
As the United States and Israel press their war of aggression against Iran—now entering its second month—attention has understandably focused on the carnage in the Middle East. Yet with the Strait of Hormuz effectively blockaded and global energy markets in turmoil,...
Make no mistake: the self-proclaimed defenders of America’s liberal democracy at The Bulwark love war. But the one thing that may possibly outweigh Bill Kristol and company’s love of war may be their hatred for Donald Trump. So, it should be no surprise The...
Across the animal kingdom, natural selection has sculpted a remarkable array of reproductive strategies, but humans are unique in that we consciously design institutions that shape incentives and constrain behavior. The modern welfare state highlights this dynamic. As...
Since the beginning of the war, President Donald Trump has touted dismantlement of the Iranian government as the American endgame. Even as U.S. officials negotiate with their Iranian counterparts to end the fighting and restore stability to world energy markets, Trump...
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received over two-hundred complaints from American troops that their commanders used the Book of Revelation to frame the Iran War as a “Holy War” in which President Donald Trump was chosen to ignite “The End Times” as part...
The war on Iran was neither inevitable nor necessary. As recently as March 3, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi said the IAEA “has found no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb.” On March 18, Director of National...
The U.S. government is waging an illegal, congressionally unauthorized war on Iran. Thirteen American soldiers are formally confirmed dead at the time of writing. Over $11 billion of your money has been spent in three weeks. And the primary concern of senior...
The American empire appears to be in retreat. Humiliated by Russia in Eastern Europe, outmaneuvered by China in East Asia, and bogged down in a conflict with Iran in the Middle East, the United States has turned its gaze southward. Unable to win the great power...
