Amidst the increasing tensions in Persian Gulf, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards to develop “modern and updated” weapons domestically. In a stirring speech in October, Khamenei advised high...
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Amidst the increasing tensions in Persian Gulf, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards to develop “modern and updated” weapons domestically. In a stirring speech in October, Khamenei advised high...
President Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” has resulted in nothing but failure. The administration’s tendency to aggressively apply pressure and seek demands with no tact has made it seem that negotiations for peace in Afghanistan, or an ...
President Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” has resulted in nothing but failure. The administration’s tendency to aggressively apply pressure and seek demands with no tact has made it seem that negotiations for peace in Afghanistan, or an ...
There’s no denying that we currently live in an age of social media, where Twitter serves as the main method of communication between the leader of the free world and his electorate; yet the White House press briefing remains the traditional channe...
There’s no denying that we currently live in an age of social media, where Twitter serves as the main method of communication between the leader of the free world and his electorate; yet the White House press briefing remains the traditional channe...
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the city of Baghouz, ISIS’ last stronghold in Syria, in March. While formally the SDF still exists, it appears that the U.S. State Department’s Global Coalition against ISIS has met one of its main goals, t...
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the city of Baghouz, ISIS’ last stronghold in Syria, in March. While formally the SDF still exists, it appears that the U.S. State Department’s Global Coalition against ISIS has met one of its main goals, t...
An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be some of the first American climate change refugees. But they’re denying the existence of climate change as ...
An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be some of the first American climate change refugees. But they’re denying the existence of climate change as ...
Go West, young man: Horace Greeley’s famous advice has, with one caveat, withstood the test of time. Last January, the US Census Bureau unveiled population data showing that in 2017, western states enjoyed the Union’s highest rate of in-migration...
Go West, young man: Horace Greeley’s famous advice has, with one caveat, withstood the test of time. Last January, the US Census Bureau unveiled population data showing that in 2017, western states enjoyed the Union’s highest rate of in-migration...
In the era of Trump, trade is a touchy topic. His barbed attacks on existing institutions and norms have angered allies both on our borders and across the Atlantic, threatening the international order the US has been building since the end of World W...
In the era of Trump, trade is a touchy topic. His barbed attacks on existing institutions and norms have angered allies both on our borders and across the Atlantic, threatening the international order the US has been building since the end of World W...
Vice President Mike Pence created much ado in August when he revealed “Space Force,” — a proposed sixth branch of the US military. Discretely and nearly simultaneously, however, President Trump began to unravel an Obama-era policy, makin...
Vice President Mike Pence created much ado in August when he revealed “Space Force,” — a proposed sixth branch of the US military. Discretely and nearly simultaneously, however, President Trump began to unravel an Obama-era policy, makin...
Over the last 50 years, swearing in front of large audience has shifted from an obscenity crime to the norm, and while this trend has been underway for decades, the Trump administration is accelerating this change at an unprecedented rate. Swear word...
Over the last 50 years, swearing in front of large audience has shifted from an obscenity crime to the norm, and while this trend has been underway for decades, the Trump administration is accelerating this change at an unprecedented rate. Swear word...
Hidden within the 2018 tax reform bill is a provision that could reinvent development financing across the country. The Investment in Opportunity Act, a bipartisan amendment to the bill, encourages investment of realized capital gains in Low-Income C...
Hidden within the 2018 tax reform bill is a provision that could reinvent development financing across the country. The Investment in Opportunity Act, a bipartisan amendment to the bill, encourages investment of realized capital gains in Low-Income C...
Since the beginning of the ongoing North Korea crisis, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has only caused tensions to rise. However, promises of “fire and fury” seem to be more than just inflammatory threats: Trump’s hyperbolic language is actually base...
Since the beginning of the ongoing North Korea crisis, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has only caused tensions to rise. However, promises of “fire and fury” seem to be more than just inflammatory threats: Trump’s hyperbolic language is actually base...
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of Pittsburgh—the iconic country-rocker Willie Nelson offered words of celebration and encouragement: “We’ve been i...
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of Pittsburgh—the iconic country-rocker Willie Nelson offered words of celebration and encouragement: “We’ve been i...