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Women in Iran Need America’s Help. Why Won’t We Give It to Them?

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Recent developments show that Iran is succumbing to international pressure — just not the kind the Trump administration has been exerting in the form of economic sanctions. Last week, in surprise reversals of two long-standing policies, Iranian women were — for the first time —...

The Two Psychological Tricks Trump Is Using to Get Away With Everything

[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription Last Thursday, Donald Trump said something that, on its face, seemed inexplicably self-defeating. Already under attack for having asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, he publicly asked China to do the same. This time there was no whistle-blower forcing Trump’s hand. Having already transgressed the once-sacrosanct...

Rudy Giuliani Welcomes You To Eastern Europe

[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried...

Free Speech Is Killing Us

[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried...

Annexing the Jordan Valley Doesn’t Make Security Sense

[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan included two clauses whose security importance is as great and perhaps greater than the demilitarization of the Sinai Peninsula in the peace treaty with Egypt. These clauses turn Kahol Lavan chairman MK Benny Gantz’s intention and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

An Open Letter to John Kasich: Please Challenge Trump

[aggregation-styles] Post Alley Subscription Former Ohio governor John Kasich has been the most prominent and consistent Republican critic of Donald Trump, but he’s shying away from the necessary (and patriotic) mission of a lifetime–challenging Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination. He’s told his top political staff to stop planning for...

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