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After 'Signalgate,' MAGA's Contempt for NATO Impossible To Ignore | Opinion

After 'Signalgate,' MAGA's Contempt for NATO Impossible To Ignore | Opinion

The Trump administration threatens to upend the world's most successful alliance—that was the clear message coming out of the leaked "Signalgate"...

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Newsweek

Dan Perry

Trump's War on Education Department Undermines American Nationhood | Opinio

Trump's War on Education Department Undermines American Nationhood | Opinio

Does America want to be a unified country or merely a confederation of states with vastly different rules, standards, and rights?

17.03.2025 7

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Europe's Moment of Truth Is About More Than Just Ukraine | Opinion

The betrayal of Ukraine by President Donald Trump was hardly unexpected, but its execution—brazen, humiliating, and incredibly public—has left...

04.03.2025 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

America the Mercenary: Ukraine Shakedown Turns Us Into Gangsters | Opinion

President Donald Trump's gangster-like shakedown of Ukraine for its rare earth minerals is a breathtaking deviation from decades of American global...

26.02.2025 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Why Is Donald Trump Making Nice to Vladimir Putin? | Opinion

President Donald Trump is taking a significant gamble with his approach to Ukraine.

15.02.2025 8

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Dear Palestinians: Statehood Is Not a Right | Opinion

The catastrophe in the Middle East since Oct. 7, 2023, a has reignited discussions about a Palestinian state.

11.02.2025 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Trump Should Keep His Eyes on the (Nobel) Prize in the Mideast | Opinion

The Middle East is the exception to world diplomacy: it's practically begging for a bashing of heads. Trump seems just the man, and it begins Tuesday.

03.02.2025 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Romania Election Drama Tests Trump's Affinity for Authoritarians | Opinion

Logic would suggest the MAGA universe should be stampeding to Romania to rally behind Georgescu, as they have done for the similarly liberal-baiting...

30.01.2025 10

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Dan Perry

What’s next for the Israel-Hamas cease-fire in Gaza

A trio of Israeli hostages have been released in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the first phase of the tri-stage deal that if...

25.01.2025 8

New York Post

Dan Perry

What Ingredients Make for a Strong, Long-lasting Dictatorship? | Opinion

The reality is that many of the elections last year were fake and that the world runneth over with dictators, authoritarians and their wannabes.

10.01.2025 5

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Jimmy Carter's Legacy in the Middle East Is Both War and Peace | Opinion

What history will record of Jimmy Carter was that he was the first U.S. president to broker peace between Israel and an Arab country. The 1979...

31.12.2024 80

Newsweek

Dan Perry

2024 Was Truly the End of the 'End of History'

Thirty-five years ago, as communism was collapsing, U.S. scholar Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the "end of history." His argument, later...

27.12.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

When It Comes to Health Care, the U.S. Is Doing It Wrong | Opinion

The unseemly snark over the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson needs discussing. Some wonder what's wrong with American society; some see...

17.12.2024 9

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Syria's Assad Falls: Could Iran Be Next? | Opinion

On Sunday morning, a lightning offensive by Syrian rebels ended with the dramatic fall of Damascus, marking the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's...

09.12.2024 9

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Dan Perry

Faced with a new rebel offensive, can Bashir al-Assad survive in Syria?

In 2012, then-President Barack Obama declared a “red line,” warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt...

07.12.2024 4

New York Post

Dan Perry

A Romanian Turning Point Against Russian Election Interference | Opinion

For nearly two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used election interference as a weapon to reshape the global order in his favor. From...

06.12.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Vladimir Putin's Latest Threat to NATO Comes Through Romania | Opinion

A strange thing happened to Romania on its way to another humdrum post-communist election: A sudden outbreak of the right-wing populist virus,...

02.12.2024 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The International Criminal Court Flushes Its Credibility | Opinion

The International Criminal Court has been plunged into a crisis of its own making: Its indictment last week of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

26.11.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Here’s the roadmap the Trump admin needs to follow in order to ‘win’ the Middle East 

The incoming administration of Donald Trump is inheriting a house on fire in the Middle East, but there is a big opportunity for a win there if his...

23.11.2024 7

New York Post

Dan Perry

Benjamin Netanyahu Stands Between Israel and Peace | Opinion

Israel is right about Hamas and Hezbollah. Nothing justifies the existence of these Iran-backed criminal organizations, their aggression against...

18.11.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Will Trump Abandon Ukraine? It Would Force Europe to Grow Up Fast | Opinion

Few countries are more worried about President-Elect Donald Trump than Ukraine, whose determined stand against Russian aggression would collapse...

14.11.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The End of America's Well-Intentioned Empire | Opinion

The world was hugely interested in the U.S. presidential election—and everywhere people are wondering what the return of Donald Trump will mean in...

07.11.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

The Electoral College Makes the U.S. a Laughingstock | Opinion

Many Americans don't want to hear it, but the Electoral College is a uniquely damaging system that wildly distorts the will of the voter, yields...

05.11.2024 20

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Whoever Wins on Nov. 5, Iran Must Lose | Opinion

Israel's successes in recent weeks open the door to a genuinely game-changing Pax Americana in the Middle East. That is if the United States is...

24.10.2024 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

With Yahya Sinwar dead, Israel and Gaza can have a future without war

With the unexpected death of Yahya Sinwar this week, Israel suddenly finds itself at a pivotal moment in its long and painful conflict with Hamas....

19.10.2024 20

New York Post

Dan Perry

What's a Moderate to Do in This Election? A Step-by-Step Guide | Opinion

The election is three weeks away, but absentee balloting has begun, the noise is deafening and confusion considerable. The election will turn on...

18.10.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

It's Time to Either Fix Lebanon—Or Break It Up | Opinion

Imagine two diplomats in smoke-filled rooms in wartime London and Paris, poring over maps of the Ottoman Empire. Mark Sykes, representing Britain,...

11.10.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

A Grim Anniversary for Israel—and a Better Way Forward | Opinion

A year ago, there was reason to believe that President Joe Biden was on the cusp of a major geopolitical victory, coaxing Israel and Saudi Arabia...

07.10.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Killing Hezbollah's Nasrallah Is a Key Step. More Is Needed | Opinion

Much of the media coverage and official reaction about Israel's killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has fixated reflexively on fears of "...

30.09.2024 3

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Kamala Harris Is No Orator. She Needs to Become One to Win | Opinion

When you're in the presence of a great orator, you just know. It's an unmistakable energy that sweeps across a room—a sense that the speaker not...

17.09.2024 9

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Is It Woke to Add Actors of Color to Historically White Stories? | Opinion

In historical dramas, authenticity has always battled with artistic license, creating a certain tension between truth and art. The age-old question...

13.09.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

60 Senate Seats: How the Democrats Would Govern if They Could | Opinion

Vice President Kamala Harris is taking some heat for being vague on policy. That suggests that people are forgetting, as they often do at this...

29.08.2024 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Kamala Harris Needs to Win Over Hearts More Than Minds | Opinion

As Democrats gather in Chicago, the most remarkable of the storylines is going strangely unremarked: America in 2024 might finally elect a woman...

19.08.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Seeds of Today's Middle East Disaster Were Sown by the CIA | Opinion

Seventy-one years ago this week, a pair of energetic American brothers carried out a plan to overthrow a pesky Middle Eastern government, setting...

14.08.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Netanyahu Is Paying in Others' Blood to Buy Himself More Time | Opinion

Ten months after the Oct. 7 massacre which sparked a devastating war in Gaza, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of an even wider conflict....

08.08.2024 4

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Kamala Harris Should Pick a Team, Not Just a Vice President | Opinion

Whoever Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris gambles on as her running mate, the traditional way of doing things is to move on from...

05.08.2024 10

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Biden's Supreme Court Reforms Are Absolutely Correct | Opinion

President Joe Biden's proposals for reforming the U.S. Supreme Court are not just completely reasonable—they're also desperately needed and even...

29.07.2024 2

Newsweek

Dan Perry

Is True Art Dead in the Era of Algorithms and AI? | Opinion

Pity the tortured soul of the artist! It was never easy for the creative class: Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear, the Impressionists were...

25.07.2024 20

Newsweek

Dan Perry