Before any votes to reauthorize FISA, before any votes to seat a permanent DNI, and especially before any votes to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, Republicans in the Senate need to think long and hard about about the foreign consequences of their votes.
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In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay goes through some of the details of the enormous return on investment US money to Israel has been bringing to America.
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People have tuned out Trump’s promises of a deal. That is starting a cascade of consequences.
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Stephen Miller is in large part dictating U.S. foreign policy, with a mindset of unilateral violence on a maximum scale.
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that a deal with Iran on the war, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, but the proposal has drawn criticism from top Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi.
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President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post depicting Venezuela overlaid with an American flag and labeled the 51st state followed a Fox News report that Trump had said he was “seriously considering” such a move.
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The president comes home empty-handed from his summit with Xi Jinping.
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The outgoing UN high representative predicted that the multi-ethnic state he governed for years could be pushed towards fragmentation under external pressure from both the U.S. and Russia.
One positive effect is that midsized powers are less under the sway of Washington. But they could come under the sway of China.
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Our backward-looking president has dismantled our scientific supremacy and forced allies to view China as the more reliable hegemon.
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On Friday, May 8, 2026 — day 70 of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — President Trump called renewed American airstrikes on Iranian territory a "love tap." The same strikes hit civilian areas in southern Iran. Air defenses activated over Tehran. Overnight explosions shook the capital. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, offered the week's clearest observation: "Every time a diplomatic solution…
In today’s edition, we discuss how the haphazard ending to the war won’t divert from the terrible path Donald Trump has led the world down.
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Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents?
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Did the president screw up a possible agreement with his own impulsivity? Or was the imminent deal that he touted on Friday an illusion all along?
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On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that he is concerned about where Democrats are on foreign policy, “that we are moving away [from] fundamental support for the United
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Trump’s war craters the economy in multiple ways, even if it somehow ends soon.
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Will Bibi Netanyahu manage to keep the war going, or will Trump finally appreciate that U.S. interests and Bibi’s are far from identical?
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(RNS) — Within hours, a news report sparked statements from US and Vatican officials. Varying accounts of the meeting emerged over the next day as a wave of discourse erupted among Vatican-watchers.
A foundation associated with Home Depot has been the biggest funder of one of the loudest voices for war against Iran.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned Cuba that if they didn’t immediately capitulate to all his demands, he would destroy the island... Get the full story
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Iran taking operational control of the Strait of Hormuz has enormous ripple effects.
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The president has done more damage to American power than anyone in history.
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‘A whole civilization will die tonight,’ he vows.
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Ever since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, the Strait Of Hormuz has become the most watched shipping lane in the world economy. The strait itself is just a narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf Of Oman, but much of the world’s oil and other crucial material, such as industrial helium, […]
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s announcement that she will not vote for any Israeli military aid is part of an emerging trend.
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Including ‘Why did he start it?’ and ‘When will he end it?’
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America is bombing cartels, and in the process helping a right-wing Ecuadorian president consolidate power.
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Trump is assembling a force of some 10,000 potential ground troops to intensify his Iran war. What will they do? Does he even know?
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As airports reach peak chaos amidst a government shutdown and massive departures by unpaid TSA agents, the regime's evil idiots moved to resolve their new quagmire by sending in the same brutal, ill-trained, much-despised ICE goons who caused the shutdown - and whose past abuses and corruption now daily come to light. The Beckett-esque result: Images of cranky travelers standing up to six…
In Iran, he finally created a jam for himself it will not be easy to wriggle out of.
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