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America’s Imperial Trap in Iran

America’s Imperial Trap in Iran

Middle East and North Africa For around 15 years, many American leaders—including all three presidents in that period—believed that the country...

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Iran is an imperial trap. America walked right in.

Iran is an imperial trap. America walked right in.
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An Iranian civil war is not in America’s interest

06.03.2026 7

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An Iranian Civil War Is Not in America’s Interest

An Iranian Civil War Is Not in America’s Interest

Middle East and North Africa “Regime change by jazz improvisation.” That is how the respected scholar of Iran Karim Sadjadpour described the Trump...

06.03.2026 10

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‘Bomb and Hope’ Is Not a Strategy

Middle East and North Africa In his 1 hour, 47-minute State of the Union address, President Donald Trump spent three minutes on Iran. This is alarming...

27.02.2026 10

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‘Bomb and hope’ is not a strategy

27.02.2026 10

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New Yorkers will pay for this

20.02.2026 4

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European-Scale Taxation, New York-Scale Dysfunction

Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York City affordable. This week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York has been...

20.02.2026 10

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What do voters want? Two countries are making the answer clear.

15.02.2026 60

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What Takaichi’s Triumph and Starmer’s Slump Say About Global Democracy

What do two striking political facts tell us about the mood of the world today? In Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has just won the largest lower...

13.02.2026 20

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The Post-Cold War Nuclear Era Might Have Just Ended

09.02.2026 7

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The post-Cold War nuclear era might have just ended

07.02.2026 30

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The Real ‘Civilizational Erasure’ Is Happening in America

02.02.2026 20

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The real ‘civilizational erasure’ is happening in America

31.01.2026 150

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‘He treats us with contempt’: This is not leadership

23.01.2026 9

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How Not to Lead

23.01.2026 10

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The world is adjusting to an unreliable United States

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The World Is Adjusting to an Unreliable United States

16.01.2026 10

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Trump Is Teaching the World to Fear America

10.01.2026 20

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Trump is teaching the world to fear America

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Ukraine’s fate in 2026 will define the international order

03.01.2026 80

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Ukraine’s Fate in 2026 Will Define the International Order

03.01.2026 30

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Trump’s Doctrine Is ‘Make America Small Again’

19.12.2025 8

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Trump’s doctrine is ‘Make America Small Again’

19.12.2025 10

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Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse

06.12.2025 10

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America’s Emerging Plutocracy

05.12.2025 10

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Strongmen around the world are increasingly inspired by America’s example

28.11.2025 20

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Ukraine is teetering. Why return to a failed policy?

22.11.2025 20

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Trump’s New Ukraine Policy Is Old Hat

22.11.2025 10

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Why Democrats keep flailing

15.11.2025 30

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The lessons Democrats need to learn to win again

08.11.2025 20

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Trump now plays by China’s rules

01.11.2025 10

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Democracy’s crisis of faith

25.10.2025 10

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China is growling. Bravado won’t stop it.

18.10.2025 10

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Five realities about the new Middle East

10.10.2025 6

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As America fumbles, China races ahead

04.10.2025 40

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Trump flouts the rules. What happened to our checks and balances?

27.09.2025 10

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This polarization is poisonous. But there are partial victories.

20.09.2025 10

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As Putin pushes his advantage, Trump twiddles his thumbs

13.09.2025 7

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Trump’s tariffs are a gift, just not to America

06.09.2025 10

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Trump’s biggest foreign policy mistake

15.08.2025 20

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Don’t believe the MAGA doomers on trade

09.08.2025 40

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Trump’s tariffs are undermining the peaceful, prosperous world order

01.08.2025 10

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Trump is deporting fewer people than Obama. He’s just louder and meaner.

18.07.2025 10

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Here is a way for Trump to win that Nobel Prize

12.07.2025 10

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The pen is still mightier than the bunker buster

28.06.2025 30

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Israel is succeeding but will it overreach?

22.06.2025 10

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You can’t bully a supply-chain superpower

14.06.2025 10

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Why CEOs are silent in the face of Trump’s destruction

07.06.2025 10

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Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days

26.04.2025 10

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