"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture,...
On New Year’s Eve in 2023, on the Danish side of the border with Germany, two children stood near their father’s house watching fireworks. The boy was ten, his sister thirteen. A team of masked men in black stormed the house, beat the father to the ground, and took...
The recent death in my family underscored for me the devastating impact of personal grief, illuminating the deep loss and constant state of mortality that Palestinian families endure every day. To be Palestinian is to carry an inherited archive of loss. After nearly a...
Part 1 In case you are ever tempted to feel sorry for Trumpy – now might be the time. We are referring, of course, to the current shrill crescendo of attacks from the mainstream media and UniParty pols upon Trump over his spat with Zelensky and his sensible decision...
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. War is peace. Donald Trump has killed thousands of Iranians, kidnapped Venezuela’s president and bombed Somalia 200 times but for what does Marc Carney criticize him? An energy deal. Since Donald Trump began his second term, the...
The war in Ukraine can be ended permanently on terms that protect Ukraine’s statehood, meet Russia’s security concerns, and lay the foundation for a durable European security order. As another round of negotiations gears up in Norway, I propose a settlement concluded...
Israel's 2026 election is occurring in a highly polarized and incendiary political atmosphere that recalls 1995. Then, the Oslo process had split Israeli society between an increasingly radicalized right and a peace-oriented government. As the incendiary political...
The fight between Saudi Arabia and Yemen is escalating at a rapid pace. On October 11, the Houthis carried out a major attack on the airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh. The strikes killed 12 and injured over 300, in what was the deadliest Houthi attack...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi‘s Substack: On March 9 of this year, roughly ten days into the Iran war, I made the following points on Twitter: Trump is desperately seeking to end the war, but Iran has a vote to, and it won’t allow the war to end quite...
JD Vance drew anger this week after a CBS News town hall in which he appeared to brush off the Iran War’s operational failures in front of the grieving husband of a soldier killed in March. “Though the Iranian drone was the weapon that killed my wife, there were a lot...
