The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules—or designing new ones—to fit US strategic interests.
This may sound harsh, but it is a necessary realization, particularly in...
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28 January 2026
And here I am, an American, staring at the border again . . . and slowly coming to realize the paradox of it. Borders don’t actually exist. They’re invisible lies. They’re also virtually everywhere.
Consider the border Alex Pretti...
28 January 2026
Calls for U.S. military intervention to bring democracy to Iran rest on a dangerous illusion: that democracy is something foreign powers can install from the outside. History suggests the opposite. When democracy is imposed through...
27 January 2026
President Trump has a long history of inflammatory rhetoric targeting Muslims. Ever since he won the presidential election in in 2016, his first Executive Order was a total Muslim ban to America, which struck the car as illegal. For the...
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