Dr. Omar Mohammed recounted surviving ISIS on The Free Press, revealing how American policy broke Iraq and leaving voters to face the endless human cost of military intervention.
By Alma Cordero ·
The withdrawal of American forces from Iraq ends a two-decade military presence and creates a dangerous security vacuum that Iran-backed militias will readily exploit.
By Tom Beckwith ·
On the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, Sarah Paine defends limited military goals, but treating war as a cheap transaction ignores the human ruin left behind.
By Josie Calloway ·
When a man in a suit tells you a disaster is "temporary" while the satellite photos show a crater where the machinery used to be, you don’t look at the man. You look at the crater.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
There is a particular kind of theater performed by governments when they wish to appear in control of a house they no longer own.
By Caroline Ashford ·
There is a particular kind of theater practiced in Baghdad, a performance of statehood that mimics the forms of sovereignty while hollowing out the substance.
By Caroline Ashford ·
There is a specific kind of helplessness that comes when you realize the people in charge of the fence aren't the ones actually holding the gate.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The East-West pipeline is not merely a feat of engineering; it is the strategic lung of the Saudi state.
By Tom Beckwith ·
When the price of diesel hits six dollars a gallon, the people who actually move the world—the truckers, the farmers, the delivery drivers—are the ones who pay the tax on a…
By Alma Cordero ·
I learned a long time ago, both in the Corps of Cadets at A&M and while flying C-130s, that the only thing a bully respects is a wall they can’t climb and a punch they can’t dodge.
By Grant Colby ·
When the price of diesel hits six dollars a gallon at the pump, the people in the boardrooms in Riyadh and Washington call it "market volatility." But for the driver hauling…
By Alma Cordero ·
The cost of this geopolitical chess match isn't measured in diplomatic cables or satellite imagery; it’s measured at the pump.
By Maya Ellison ·
The fiction that a kingdom built on petrodollars can indefinitely insulate itself from the fires it helped stoke has finally gone up in black smoke over Medina.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The language of diplomacy is often just a polite way of documenting a grievance before you settle it.
By Adele Rutherford ·
When I was a charge nurse in the ER, we had a saying: the quietest patient is usually the sickest.
By Josie Calloway ·
The image of 2,977 lights rising over New York Harbor—one for every soul lost on that Tuesday morning a quarter-century ago—was a rare moment of grace.
By Aoife Gallagher ·