House Speaker Mike Johnson worked with President Biden to push through a $95 billion foreign military aid package—most of which goes to the American military-industrial complex.
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Elica Le Bon, an attorney and Iranian-American activist, talks about Iran's recent strike on Israel on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Many of the Washington hawks calling for war with Iran had sworn up and down that more pressure was not a path to war.
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Washington quietly funded Israeli-Iranian proxy wars for years. Now American men and women are directly involved.
President Biden said that we will “do all we can to protect Israel’s security” after Israel killed an Iranian general.
Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media.
Iran’s leaders wanted to show the world a high voter turnout. Instead, people stayed home for the "sham" elections.
One in five national governments tried to intimidate or kill exiles in recent years.
Hackers have unmasked some of the tactics Beijing and Tehran use to silence their opponents.
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The U.S. base on the Jordanian-Syrian border has long been "strategic baggage."
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All of the unfinished U.S. conflicts in the Middle East are coming together into one big crisis for Biden.
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Our troops are just sitting there with targets on their backs. Why?
Sen. Tim Scott: "You actually have to cut off the head of the snake, and the head of the snake is Iran and not simply their proxies."
Biden will reportedly freeze Iran's ransom deal while the U.S. tries to find 14 missing Americans in Gaza.
Following reports that the Iranian government aided in Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, the governor plans to expand restrictions on business with Iran.
No place is truly safe for dissidents when governments see no limits to their authority.
While the lethal effects of Iran’s booze ban are widely recognized, politicians ignore similar consequences from U.S. drug laws.
The economic historian and Magatte Wade, Alex Gladstein, Mohamad Machine-Chian, Tony Woodlief, and Tom Palmer are challenging authoritarians everywhere.
Bolton says the Bush administration's biggest error in Iraq was failing to invade Iran too. That's madness.
There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
DeSantis' foreign policy seems to be defined by a simple rule: Whatever Democrats do is wrong, but whatever Republicans do is right.
"My artwork is unapologetic," said the artist. "Sometimes it can be very political. Sometimes it can be very controversial."
And their team wanted nothing to do with politics.
Both teams are better than they were in 1998, but the political situation between the two countries has not improved.
After a month of tear gas and beatings and gunfire, Iranians may not be convinced to move on so easily.
This time could really be different.
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The onerous sanctions regime carried out by the Trump and Biden administrations has done immeasurable harm in Iran.
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It's the economics of energy production that make petrostates more trigger-happy, Emma Ashford argues in Oil, the State, and War.
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