18+ hour, 43+ min ago   (501+ words) Amid war, an anti-immigrant crackdown, and a far-right push to remake the US, Inkstick has book suggestions for understanding our current moment. Throughout the first eight months of 2026, US President Donald Trump’s administration has kidnapped the Venezuelan president, bombed countries…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (525+ words) Will the Mecca Pact upend the balance of power in the Middle East? Although the pact has come into being amid the ongoing US‑Iran confrontation, it need not be construed as an expressly anti‑Iran coalition. On the contrary,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (118+ words) A new Human Rights Watch report takes a hard look at the Trump administration's gutting of civil rights enforcement. Beyond staffing cuts, the administration has moved to weaken the disparate impact doctrine itself. An April 2025 executive order told agencies to…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1184+ words) Faridoon Tofan, an Afghan refugee living in Germany, is among hundreds facing deportation to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Nearly 11 years ago, then German Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaimed, “We can do this!” as she affirmed that Germany was up to the task of…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (530+ words) In a new book, Aliza Marcus examines the tumultuous recent history of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. At this critical moment for each of these countries, Aliza Marcus has recently published a timely book, Resurgence and Revolution: The PKK and the…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1201+ words) As the Trump administration casts left-wing activists as “terrorists,” a Texas activist known as Doberman recounts a traumatic run-in with law enforcement. Doberman — the name she uses on social media — is a transgender woman who often attends protests to work…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (367+ words) The battleship the president covets is overly reliant on expensive and highly vulnerable technology. The first proposed Trump-class battleship now has a price tag: $23 billion. This cost, as assessed by the Congressional Budget Office, will garner a lot of attention....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (522+ words) New research explores how much American presidents' beliefs influence military commands in the field. To test it, Campbell examines the roles of Southern Command and Pacific Command across the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, drawing on congressional testimony, formal military…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1010+ words) US President Donald Trump's highly touted 'Golden Dome' will cost taxpayers untold sums of money. Will it even work? A year and a half and $25 billion since the president announced the Golden Dome, plans still remain classified, and the White…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (930+ words) A proposed luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump has turned a former military outpost into a symbol of Albania’s fight over development, sovereignty and foreign influence. “The ruins that you see there used to be apartment buildings,…...