President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has come to rely on Gulf state financing. The end of the Iran War could see that spigot run dry.

San Diego Mosque Attack Follows Surge in Public Anti-Islam Rhetoric (Michelle Boorstein and N. Kirkpatrick, Washington Post) Statements against Islam by prominent figures, and multiple attacks on ...

Hezbollah’s Unjammable Drones Pose New Threat to Israel (Lior Soroka, Suzan Haidamous and Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post) The weapons, cheap to build from commercially available components, have ...

Vladimir Putin Is Losing His Grip on Russia ( Economist) His every move to preserve power accelerates decay, writes a former senior official in the Russian government.

The Great Antifa Hoax (Eric Alterman, New Republic) Yes, it exists. It’s not really a threat to anyone except neo-Nazis—but that’s all the excuse the Trump administration needs to turn the machinery ...

There were always reasons to doubt it was a real possibility—until now. U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retain ...

Naval mockery of China is turning to alarm. To Fight Antisemitism, First Grasp Where It Comes From (Economist) What loo ...

The judge also admonished the Trump administration, saying suppressing political speech is the “mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.” ...

From Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, Netanyahu has sought to end threats rather than manage them. Trump and Meloni Split Amid Growing Dispute Over Pope and Iran (Jason Horowitz, New York Times) Prime ...

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned. The ruling, which said that Kari ...

The new chapter in defense planning seems like a direct response to Trump’s Golden Dome. How the Iran War Could Consolidate China’s Energy Dominance (By Jason Bordoff and Erica Downs, Foreign Policy) ...

Hungarians stopped falling for an authoritarian’s trick. Peter Magyar’s Victory Will Keep Hungary in the Spotlight (Economist) The country will become a test case for reversing democratic decay.