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Noah Rothman

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Regime Change Has Its Perks

Just 18 months ago, Syria, under the thumb of Bashar al-Assad’s despotic regime, represented an outsize threat to American national interests in the...

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Everyone Is Still Spending

In a conventional signal of tough times ahead, American consumer confidence declined markedly in April. Surging fuel prices and the deteriorating...

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The Market for a New Pandemic

There isn’t a cable news producer on earth who could resist the temptations presented by the outbreak of a rare and deadly communicable disease --...

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That Same Old Song

Barack Obama is deeply concerned for the institutional health of the Republican Party. Indeed, whatever the current iteration of the GOP happens to...

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The Torching of Los Angeles Was Anti-Capitalist Vigilantism

Among the many things progressives would probably like to forget about the moral panic they succumbed to in the summer of 2020 is the extent to which...

05.05.2026 6

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The Illusion of Control

There is still much debate over whether banning advertisements for tobacco products on television and radio had the intended effect of ensuring that...

04.05.2026 7

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We Meant to Do That

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson recently manufactured a viral moment for herself: https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2049562844862324861 This one deserves...

01.05.2026 7

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The Monarchical Logic of Trump’s Tariffs

Americans were summarily informed by the president on Thursday that he would loosen the reins he had imposed on American importers in deference to the...

01.05.2026 8

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$25,000 to Go

“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant,” Ronald Reagan once observed. “It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”...

27.04.2026 10

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Chris Murphy’s Revealing Social Media Faceplant

Apparently, it’s everyone else’s fault that no one quite knew what to make of Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy’s characteristically...

21.04.2026 10

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The Blockade Is Scrambling Calculations in Tehran and Beijing

The news over the weekend featured a blizzard of vaporous claims about the status of a potential deal to extend the cease-fire between the U.S. and...

20.04.2026 10

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The Economist Swoons over Iranian ‘Slopaganda’

Sure, the Iranian regime’s leadership is smashed and scattered, its remnants now publicly warring with one another. Yes, its air-defense networks...

20.04.2026 10

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Kicking Out the Crazy

Washington Post reporter Brianna Sack’s interpretation of Cameron Hamilton’s reportedly forthcoming nomination to lead the Federal Emergency...

17.04.2026 8

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A False Dawn in the Strait of Hormuz

Global energy prices collapsed on Friday morning following an announcement from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that “passage for all...

17.04.2026 9

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‘Winning’ Is a Strange Word for What Iran Just Experienced

If the Islamic Republic’s leadership — or what remains of it — had been consuming Western media coverage of the 40-day conflict with the United...

16.04.2026 8

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Mamdani’s Socialist Delusion

In an appearance on CBS Mornings on Thursday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani articulated a Marxian version of dialectical materialism in which...

16.04.2026 10

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Right Thing, Wrong Reasons

Congressional Democrats did the right thing when they refused to look away from the allegations of sexual harassment and assault that have put an end...

15.04.2026 10

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Is ‘Just War’ Ethical?

In a roundtable interview with U.S. cardinals, CBS News provides us with an illuminating exchange prompted by the dustup between Pope Leo and...

14.04.2026 10

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The Rising Tide of Anti-AI Violence

The attempted firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home should be a wake-up call. Had the attacker, who also reportedly made threats...

13.04.2026 10

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Radical Islam Is the Wedge Issue in Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary

CNN asks this morning whether Democrats are ready to embrace a “moderate” with a track record of “winning in Trump country,” like Michigan...

09.04.2026 10

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Mamdani Hopes Racial Agitation Succeeds Where ‘Affordability’ Has Failed

Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t be the first mayor of New York City to harbor contempt for the municipality and its residents. He may, however, be the first...

09.04.2026 10

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The Strait Hype

“A single regime has decided to exert control over a 21-mile passage, and as a result, we are living through the worst energy crisis the world has...

08.04.2026 10

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The Obvious Flaw in JD Vance’s Expansive Definition of Election Interference

Vice President JD Vance dropped a bombshell in his remarks to reporters during his swing through Hungary on Tuesday. The Trump administration is, he...

07.04.2026 10

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Another Windfall for the Bottomless ‘Blue Texas’ Money Pit

According to the New York Times, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is a powerhouse fundraiser. “In the first two months of the quarter...

06.04.2026 10

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A Serious Answer to a Silly Question

Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari is, by her own admission, confused: https://x.com/RepYassAnsari/status/2041005005822689528?s=20 It’s a...

06.04.2026 10

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It Was Funny While It Lasted

Unfortunately, the president violated one of the cardinal rules of combat: Never interrupt your opponent while he’s making a mistake. Even as Donald...

06.04.2026 10

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Where Is the Mass Outpouring of Anti-War Sentiment?

The invasion of Iraq was still five months away when an estimated 100,000 Americans poured into the streets of several major cities to protest the...

01.04.2026 10

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The Definition of Bigotry

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) “working definition” of antisemitism, to which the U.S. government and 30 other...

31.03.2026 10

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Iran’s Terror Cells Are Active and Dangerous

French police knew exactly what kind of plot they had interdicted over the weekend. According to prosecutors, the man they arrested with a homemade...

30.03.2026 10

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‘No Kings’ May Be Largely Peaceful, but the Peaceful Are Giving Cover to the Violent

Like the last two similar exhibitions of nationwide anti-Trump protests, the third in a series of coordinated “No Kings” protests against Donald...

30.03.2026 10

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The New York Times Reads My Mind

I like to think that I’m honest about what I write. Unfortunately, I have been exposed as a duplicitous liar — in the pages of the New York Times,...

27.03.2026 10

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A Portrait of a Failing Civilization

Noelia Castillo Ramos is dead. In the mere 25 years she spent on this earth, nearly everyone in her life except for her immediate family failed her....

27.03.2026 10

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JD Vance’s Allies Drive a Wedge Between Israel and America in Wartime

One month into the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocracy soaked with American blood, as well as the viscera of so many...

27.03.2026 10

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The Attempted Domestic Terror Attack on a U.S. Air Force Base

Domestic American law enforcement is on high alert as the U.S. and Israel execute combat operations against the world’s chief state sponsor of...

26.03.2026 10

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Can Anyone Tell the President to Stick to the Teleprompter?

It has been said so many times -- and will be said again here, because it’s worth saying: The war against the Islamic Republic is a national...

26.03.2026 10

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The Tide Turns for Ukraine

You’ve probably heard cynical observers of the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran insist that the only true victor in this war...

25.03.2026 10

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The Party of Psychological Distress

As Axios reporters Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein amusingly put it, the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential aspirants are kicking off their...

23.03.2026 10

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The Eagerness for Trump’s Humiliation

It’s not so much that there is an eagerness abroad in the press for an American defeat in its ongoing war against the theocratic regime in Tehran....

23.03.2026 10

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What Americans Want from the Iran War Isn’t What They Expect to Get

A useful CBS News/YouGov survey released over the weekend reveals a stark divide in American public opinion regarding the ongoing war against the...

23.03.2026 10

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The Promotion of Liberty Is Part of Trump’s Iran War

At least for the time being, the Israeli air campaign over Iran, in particular, seems to have effectively terrorized the Iranian people’s...

20.03.2026 10

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Maybe Trump’s ‘Nixon to China’ Moment Is ‘Boots on the Ground’

Throughout much of Donald Trump’s career in politics, Washington insiders speculated that the president was poised like few others in the GOP to...

20.03.2026 10

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Iran Finds Trump’s Pain Threshold

When speaking extemporaneously about the course the war with Iran is taking, Donald Trump is as stalwart and resolute as he has been since the...

19.03.2026 10

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But Does It Taste Good?

Remember fake meat? For a while, the ultra-processed, over-brined slurry of extracts and concentrates marketed as a healthier alternative to the...

18.03.2026 10

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The Passing of Soviet-Style Communism Is Nothing to Mourn

Thirty years ago, “Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned,” the Associated Press reported...

18.03.2026 10

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Good Riddance

At first blush, the resignation of America’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in wartime — indeed, in protest against a war with...

17.03.2026 10

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The Islamic Republic’s Chief Enforcer Is Dead

In a February 22 New York Times report on Iran’s preparations for the war that would break out less than a week later, Ali Larijani featured...

17.03.2026 10

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Trump Hunts for Allies to Help Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Typically, a president would assemble an international coalition of the willing, so to speak, before the outset of a fraught military campaign against...

16.03.2026 10

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Paul Ehrlich’s Disastrous Legacy

“I was a college student when I read Mr. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb,” wrote Wall Street Journal reader Kenneth Emde of “population...

16.03.2026 20

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CNN’s Strait of Hormuz Allegation Makes No Sense

“I’m dumbfounded,” said one unnamed “former U.S. official” who provided CNN with color commentary for its report alleging that Trump...

13.03.2026 10

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Antisemitic Radicalization Isn’t a ‘Dark Web’ Phenomenon Anymore

It’s too early to determine whether the attacker who drove a truck into a Detroit-area synagogue and childhood learning center — before he was...

12.03.2026 10

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