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 ...

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.

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 ...

Should a handful of men be entrusted with the world’s most potent new technology? Five geeks so famous that they can be identified by their first names—Dario, Demis, Elon, Mark and Sam—exercise almost ...

The worriers can point to the president’s behavior. He has issued executive orders to take bits of election administration away from the states and put the federal government in charge, supposedly to ...

The Iran war exposes the limits of zero-sum thinking about great powers. What This Norwegian ‘Close Call’ Says About a World without New START (Jamie Withorne and Raven Witherspoon, Bulletin of the ...