Since the war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, unconditional American support for Israel has steadily worn away the asset Washington guards most jealously abroad: its credibility. That erosion did not pause when administrations changed. If anything, the Trump administration has widened it, pairing a blank check to Israel with a war on Iran...

Two earthquakes hit northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, striking 39 seconds apart. The first registered 7.2. The second registered 7.5. The United States Geological Survey classified the pair as a doublet and placed both epicenters near Moron on the Caribbean coast, roughly 100 miles west of Caracas and about three miles from each other....

Last weekend brought a brief respite to those of us jaded by the current political order. On July 11, 2026, two days after 71st birthday, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina reportedly died from a sudden and brief illness. For more than three decades, from the halls of the South Carolina statehouse to the upper...

He operated from the shadows, shunned cameras, and cultivated an aura of mystery that made him appear less like a political consultant and more like a figure from a spy novel. Arthur Jay Finkelstein spent half a century whispering in the ears of presidents, prime ministers, and strongmen, teaching them the dark arts of political...

Hollywood motion pictures would have you believe that organized crime in America was a duopoly of Irish and Italian thugs, but there is another ethnic group that not only pioneered the corporate structure of the underworld but continues to exercise profound criminal influence to this day: organized Jewry. The Lower East Side of the late...