Why would Putin sign Trump’s peace deal?
Everything turns on security guarantees, which are so far undefined
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Tuesday
Will Israel bring back the death penalty for terrorists?
If passed, the legislation could reshape Israeli society forever
The battle for Ukraine’s electric grid
More than any conflict in history, the Russia-Ukraine war has been about electricity
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should ignore Congress
The Crown has punished him – it does not need Washington’s intervention
Monday
DoGE has had its day
A government-wide freeze on hiring is over and the federal deficit has reached a record $38 trillion in the past month
The global cottage industry gaming America’s culture wars
These guys have identified a gap in the market and created a whole new industry serving up rageslop to Westoid midwits who can be roused to anger about anything
Russia is willing to keep on fighting in Ukraine
As the Kremlin sees it, Russia is winning regardless
ISIS is stirring once more
The lingering appeal of the caliphate as an idea in the Islamic world should not be dismissed
Why Iran needs the Maduro regime
Venezuela has long served as a launchpad for Iranian operations in South America
Friday
Zelensky risks coup or civil war
Chief among concerns is how the military might react to a bad deal
Will Mamdani and Trump turn the volume up?
Trump has a strange habit of playing nice when expected to be nasty
Will the Russia peace deal backfire on Trump?
The President has made himself party to a Faustian bargain
Thursday
Was the BBC’s Trump edit outrageously wrong?
To the editors, the spliced speech had ‘truthiness’
Witkoff’s Ukraine peace proposal is unworkable
Zelensky will find nothing good in the latest plan
Marjorie Taylor Greene: anti-Trump resistance hero?
The left sees that she might be useful in their war to bring down Trump
Wednesday
Stacey Plaskett avoids Epstein Files repercussions… for now
The Delegate from the US Virgin Islands beat a censuring attempt after it was revealed she’d been emailing Epstein during a congressional hearing
America needs an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach to energy
AI’s appetite for reliable energy will require an energy-capacity building boom
Tuesday
Trump bromances MbS as Epstein Files loom
In seeking to bury the files, Trump has been defending the very establishment that he professes to despise
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
How Trump could attack Venezuela
There is immense pressure to begin operations, or else back down