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“Just who shot down that Apache AH–64 over the Hormuz Strait?”
That handy old question, Cui bono?
This piece has been edited to amend certain dates in it and to state Thomas Massie’s home state correctly. It is Kentucky.
“In Europe and West Asia, a new global order arrives.”
We must accept now that its birth will be violent.
8 JUNE— As of Sunday evening, when the Islamic Republic responded with purposeful force to Israel’s unabated attacks on southern Lebanon and the outskirts of Beirut, it seems very evident...
“The (attempted) murder of international law.”
At the White House. July 2025. (Diane Krauthamer, cc by NC-SA 2.0/ Flickr.)
A NOTE TO OUR READERS.
Like many others in our coming-apart republic, we have been living through an acute housing crisis of late, and, as with many others, this...
“The cokehead who runs Kiev.”
This is no longer about Ukraine. Serial attacks across Russia, May. (Screenshots, The Sun.)
27 MAY—You see very few blue-above-yellow banners on front lawns and porches these days, and those that remain are bleached pale by sun and rain. I...
“Naked Sadism.”
Lucy and the sociopath. Atara, Ramallah Governorate, 15 May.
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“Most Israelis view Palestinians like they’re dogs.”—Anonymous
25 May—A text arrived on Fr...
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