While European leaders toasted what they believe to be a successful summit—Trump reaffirming Article 5, Zelensky receiving applause, and...

When I watched Jake Broe’s recent breakdown of the NATO summit , I felt two things at once: a cautious admiration for the hopefulness in...

Martin Kettle is a welcome voice in the darkness. There are voices that soothe. And there are voices that warn. In an age of collapsing...

When you see men like Vlad Vexler, there is no need to wait until their deaths to recognize their greatness. Early Life and Philosophy...

Donald Trump’s recent comments urging others not to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu are not the words of an ally defending a friend. They...

The 2025 NATO summit in The Hague showcased one of the most remarkable examples of alliance theater: Donald Trump arrived as a potential...

The ceasefire between Israel and Iran, while holding for now, is unlikely to prove durable. The primary reason lies in the instability of...

Vlad Vexler is right about Rutte. The man is fucking up royally. Let’s start with the obvious: Mark Rutte is fucking up.  His approach...

Link to a free digital copy below When I first began writing The Scarab Cycle , the symbolism wasn’t deliberate—not at first. I had used...

By John R Raymond The headlines are dominated by Iran again—missile strikes, nuclear sites, regional escalations. And while the danger is...

Dear Jake Broe, Your analysis is one of the better attempts to make sense of Trump’s attacks on Iran in the wake of Israel’s escalation....

This is how Trump and Putin want it. In the wake of the strikes on Iran—first by Israel, then by the United States under Donald Trump—we...

I understand why the Rude  tag exists. There’s value in giving people a warning label, in letting them know what they’re about to read...

Yes, but only because Putin does—and even then, only on Putin's terms. The central question isn’t whether Donald Trump seeks peace in the...

The Lincoln Project has always been a brand, not a braintrust. But now, in the midst of global crisis—when we need clarity, rigor, and...

There is a clarity to Anders Puck Nielsen’s analysis that is absent from nearly every official NATO statement since Trump’s return to...

Mark Rutte, newly installed as NATO Secretary-General, has taken the reins at a moment of profound instability. And in the wake of the...

The decision by CNN to frame Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran as the act of a peacemaker is not simply misleading—it is a profound betrayal...

There are moments in American political life when clarity strikes like lightning—rare, brilliant, and impossible to ignore. Alexandria...

There is much that goes into my understanding Trump—models, frameworks, pattern-matching to autocrats, betrayal cycles, and asymmetric...