Claims of Vehicular Terrorism in Minnesota Don’t Hold Up (Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Foreign Policy) The U.S. government is adopting dangerous language to justify unlawful killing.

China Isn’t Leaving Latin America (Simon Shuster, The Atlantic) Trump wants to reestablish American dominance in Latin America, but Beijing has plans of its own. Why Arab States Are Silent About ...

Trump Is Trying to Change How the Midterm Elections Are Conducted (Patrick Marley and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post) Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, ...

Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza, Building by Building (Samuel Granados, Adam Rasgon, Iyad Abuheweila, and Sanjana Varghese, New York Times) More than 2,500 structures have been destroyed since the ...

Election Deniers Think the Venezuela Attack Is All About 2020 (David Gilbert, Wired) Conspiracy theorists claim the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is proof that the Venezuelan ...

In Donald Trump’s World, the Strong Take What They Can ( Economist) That will be bad for America—and everyone else. The Dangers of Donald Trump’s Ad Hoc Foreign Policy (Lawrence J. Haas, National ...

First the Shooting. Then the Lies. (Adam Serwer, The Atlantic) The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.

· A Quarter Century After 9/11: Terrorism Trends in the United States and West in 2026 ...

Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War (Michael McFaul, Wired) The United States’ plan for dealing with Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China remains ill-defined among a shifting global order. That must ...

Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment. The EU is an obstacle—and the far right is an ally. Why Did the White House Write This National Security Strategy? (Benjamin ...

The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger. Pam Bondi Memo’s Quiet Rewriting of Domestic Terrorism Rules (Thomas E. Brzozowski, Lawfare) A leaked directive recasts ...

For years, conversations about the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the West have been dismissed as fringe, conspiratorial, or Islamophobic. The result is that many policymakers, security ...