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Christianity is shrinking as a social force in America, yet its political identity is becoming more assertive to restore the lost cultural dominance through political mobilization.
The 2026 war is the violent culmination of eighty years of the US attempts to manage contradictory interests by consistently choosing short-term military and political fixes over coherent, long-term strategic realities.
A string of progressive primary victories suggests that the Democratic Party is facing more than a temporary backlash, as a new insurgent infrastructure is beginning to challenge the party establishment from within.
Washington is shifting from decisive war to calibrated strikes and sanctions, seeking to exhaust Iran, force negotiations, and avoid a wider regional conflict, without invasion.
How the United States under President Donald Trump has used negotiations and international agreements as instruments for eroding the established rules of the international order in the Arab world.
When The Economist interviewer asked Musk directly whether he was opposed to Muslims, he hesitated and eventually retreated into the familiar vocabulary of civilizations clash.
Iranian attacks killed American service members in Jordan, U.S. strikes cut transport links around Bandar Abbas, and Tehran widened its retaliation to Kuwait while threatening major ports and airports in Emirates.
The United States appears to be relying increasingly on older ground-launched ballistic missiles for attacks on Iran.
Wars in the Middle East seem far away and political abstraction to many Americans, but the consequences of these conflicts affect congressional budget allocations, the price of gas, stock markets, and household budgets.
For now, Vance is not breaking with Israel. He is doing something more consequential: he is trying to renegotiate its place inside the American right.