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A New Uzbekistan, A New Chapter in U.S.-Uzbek Relations dlvr.it/TVf0Cz

A New Uzbekistan, A New Chapter in U.S.-Uzbek Relations

Earlier this summer, President Trump noted in a phone call with Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev that

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Proudly Helping People No One Else Will dlvr.it/TVbM1j

Proudly Helping People No One Else Will

An outbreak does not check a passport before it crosses a border. A human trafficker does not care which government issued the papers of the person being sold into forced labor. And a person found str

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With China, Keep the Toys & Games Tariff Free dlvr.it/TVbLwX

With China, Keep the Toys & Games Tariff Free

President Trump has never been afraid to rethink how America approaches trade. His willingness to challenge longstanding assumptions, demand reciprocity and put American workers and families at the ce

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Human Cost of Outdated GPS dlvr.it/TVZcbL

Human Cost of Outdated GPS

Nearly every night during my 2010 deployment to Afghanistan, we gathered on the flight line for a fallen soldier ceremony. We stood together to honor American and NATO service members who had given th

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Why the Middle East’s Graduates Are Choosing to Stay dlvr.it/TVZb9G

Why the Middle East’s Graduates Are Choosing to Stay

For a generation, the story of young talent in the Middle East was defined by emigration. Bright university graduates, faced with limited private-sector opportunities, rigid public-sector bureaucracie

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UK's Impending Regulatory Trap and Milton Friedman's Warning dlvr.it/TVZb30

UK's Impending Regulatory Trap and Milton Friedman's Warning

I first wrote to Milton Friedman as a high school teenager in the late 1980s. A letter composed on a Commodore 64 and produced via dot matrix printer. He replied. We corresponded for nearly two decade

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Morocco’s Grey-Zone Strategy in Southern Spain dlvr.it/TVZZxd

Morocco’s Grey-Zone Strategy in Southern Spain

On July 30, the unprecedented crossing of over 75,000 undocumented migrants from Morocco into Ceuta, a tiny Spanish enclave on the North African coast, drew international attention. The sight of civil

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World Leaders Are Gathering at the UN as Iran Executes Its Political Prisoners dlvr.it/TVYNgF

World Leaders Are Gathering at the UN as Iran Executes Its Political Prisoners

I was still a teenager when I was arrested in Iran for supporting the country’s pro-democracy opposition. I learned far too young what it meant to be a political prisoner,  to live behind p

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Time for MBS to Finish Off the Houthis dlvr.it/TVWp3L

Time for MBS to Finish Off the Houthis

For months, Iran threatened neighbors by firing missiles and drones. Fearing a larger conflict, Saudi Arabia has not responded and has even urged diplomacy. Now that the Houthis are firing on the holi

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The Taliban Has Not Changed But the World Has dlvr.it/TVWnww

The Taliban Has Not Changed But the World Has

There is something quite unnerving about seeing the television reporter walking around the museum featuring homemade bombs used to attack international forces in Afghanistan under the auspices of the

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Georgia is the Key to U.S. in the Middle Corridor dlvr.it/TVT71P

Georgia is the Key to U.S. in the Middle Corridor

August marked the first anniversary of one of the Trump Administration’s most consequential foreign policy achievements. On August 8, 2025, President Trump brought Azerbaijani President Ilham Al

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Iran Faces a Growing Internal Crisis dlvr.it/TVRrhZ

Iran Faces a Growing Internal Crisis

We have passed the six-month mark of the war between the United States and the Iranian regime. Whatever Tehran's rhetoric may suggest, its theocratic dictatorship is weaker today than at any point sin

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Suicidal Empathy Hits Germany dlvr.it/TVRrfV

Suicidal Empathy Hits Germany

In Europe and the US, populist rightwing parties are under attack by liberals who seem to be willing to use extralegal means to defeat their perceived threats to democracy. For many, these extralegal

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Iran's Nuclear Crisis Enters a New Phase dlvr.it/TVRrcP

Iran's Nuclear Crisis Enters a New Phase

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has taken its most consequential step on Iran’s nuclear program in two decades. On Wednesday, the IAEA Board of Governors voted 23-3, with eight abs

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25 Years After 9/11, Gaps In Counterterrorism Efforts Remain dlvr.it/TVRrYs

25 Years After 9/11, Gaps In Counterterrorism Efforts Remain

Twenty-five years after 9/11, law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide still struggle with a persistent challenge: Individuals known to authorities or flagged by warning systems are still m

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The UN Arms Embargo on Sudan Is Broken. America Has a Plan to Fix It dlvr.it/TVR39L

The UN Arms Embargo on Sudan Is Broken. America Has a Plan to Fix It

The U.S. is rightly pushing the UN Security Council to expand the Sudan arms embargo before it expires this Saturday. Outlined by Ambassador Mike Waltz and Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, the proposal w

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The West’s Strategic Blind Spot on Iran’s Organized Opposition dlvr.it/TVR340

The West’s Strategic Blind Spot on Iran’s Organized Opposition

A persistent assumption in Western analysis is that the Islamic Republic may be unpopular and crisis-ridden but faces no organized opposition at home. The familiar conclusion is that regime collapse w

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Why Gaza's Peace Plan Can't Buy Its Way to Disarmament dlvr.it/TVQ8bP

Why Gaza's Peace Plan Can't Buy Its Way to Disarmament

The $17 Billion Misdiagnosis Every plan to end the war in Gaza asks the same question: how much will it take to make Hamas give up its guns? That is the wrong question. Hamas's arsenal was never for s

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Central Asia Is Escaping the ‘Backyard’ Label dlvr.it/TVLGFv

Central Asia Is Escaping the ‘Backyard’ Label

Three decades after their independence, Central Asia is still often viewed through outdated geopolitical lenses— a region once called “Russia’s backyard” and more recently as a

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Houthi Propaganda Laid the Groundwork for Military Escalation dlvr.it/TVJZtD

Houthi Propaganda Laid the Groundwork for Military Escalation

Houthis rebels are threatening Yemenis with a return to civil war, the Red Sea with resumed instability, and Saudi Arabia with attacks on its energy infrastructure and shipping. The Iran-backed terror

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