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No Treaty, No Accountability: Why the Karachi Consulate Shooting Is Hard to Prosecute

Ten people are dead in Karachi. Everyone knows who pulled the trigger. The question is whether any court…

Noem Refused to Answer Congress. Here’s Why Nothing Will Happen.

Three times, Representative Jamie Raskin put the same question to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: "Based on what…

‘Imminent Threat’ Has No Legal Definition — and Presidents Know It

Search the entire text of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and you will not find a definition…

Your Job Is Protected When You Deploy. Enforcing That Protection Is Another Story.

Three tours, Saudi Arabia, Guantánamo Bay, Poland. Captain Cody Khork of Lakeland, Florida, had learned to trust that…

From the Strait of Hormuz to Your Gas Pump: How the Iran Strikes Hit Home

On the morning of March 4, 2026, an Israeli F-35 shot down an Iranian Yak-130 combat trainer over…

Why America’s Closest Allies Are Quietly Worried About the Iran Strikes

Bloomberg News, citing an internal assessment, reported that Qatar's Patriot interceptor missiles had four days of supply left…

A Tomahawk Costs $2 Million. Here’s Who Gets Paid to Replace It.

Estimates from Anadolu news agency put the first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury at approximately $779 million.…

American Shale Producers Are Winning the Iran War. Airlines Are Losing It.

While headlines focused on the military campaign, the stock market was already sorting winners from losers. In the…

Public Opinion Turned Against Iraq in 2005. The War Ran Until 2011.

Six years. That is how long the Iraq War continued after public opinion turned against it. By early…

Five Texas Seats Could Flip the House Majority — and Every Federal Program With It

The Republican House majority is narrow, the margin between the party that controls every committee, every subpoena, and…

How the Trump Administration Got $940 Million Without a Single Court Victory

Nine major law firms had already pledged a combined $940 million in pro bono legal services to Trump…

The White House Iran Dossier Looks a Lot Like the Iraq WMD Case

Government factual records are not the same thing as intelligence assessments, and the difference matters a great deal.…

Defense Stocks Surged After the Iran Strikes. Here’s Exactly Who Gained.

On March 2, 2026, the first trading day after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury…

Failed Iran Nuclear Diplomacy and Shifting Justifications Preceded Operation Epic Fury

Two days before the bombs fell, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before reporters and said something that…

Who Actually Wins and Loses in a U.S.-Canada Trade War

Here is a fact about the U.S.-Canada trade relationship that tends to surprise people: Canada, a country of…