On Labor Day, Tokyo’s highest court ordered Okinawan leaders to approve land reclamation needed to move an American airstrip to a new site on the strategically located island. Despite Chinese expansion in the Pacific looming in the background, local Okinawan…
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a four-part series on Israel, Iran’s nuclear program, and the U.S. Part Three addressed Iran’s nuclear quest and failed efforts to stop its program. Part Four turns to how vulnerable Israel is to…
Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series on Israel, Iran’s nuclear program, and the U.S. Parts One and Two examined six use-of-force crises where Israel and the U.S. were at odds. In all but one case, things…
On Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. local time, 70 million people watched breathlessly, glued to their screens, as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft hovered over the desolate landscape of the moon’s South Pole. Like a Pac-Man character, the craft was first above the…
Editor’s Note: This is the second of four articles covering the interlinked topics of Israel’s relations with the U.S. and the challenge posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Much of what follows, especially as to diplomatic maneuvers, is drawn from a…
Editor’s Note: This is the first of what will be four articles covering the interlinked topics of Israel’s relations with the U.S. and the challenge posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Part One focuses on the Suez Crisis of 1956, which…
Three weeks have elapsed since a military junta ejected the democratically elected president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, from power. Much has been said in many capitals; little has been done. This, frankly, is unsurprising since the U.S. and France, the…
He dresses like a madman, looks like a madman, combs his hair like a madman, and shouts like a madman. He is Javier Milei, a mix between John Belushi, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek. He has stood up to all…
Does it matter whether Niger is run by a committee of high-ranking military men or an elected president who took office without incurring the wrath of his predecessor or the fury of the media elites in Niamey? Niamey is the…
