Iran, Oman, and the Battle for the Strait of Hormuz Published May 22, 2026 The Strait of Hormuz is twelve miles wide at its narrowest point. Through it flows roughly one fifth of all the oil that moves by sea…

Elon Musk, DOGE, Golden Dome, and the $2 Trillion Payday Published May 2026 The world's richest man spent four months inside the federal government cutting programs, eliminating agencies, and slashing budgets in the name of fiscal responsibility. Now, with impeccable…

Honored in Rhetoric, Abandoned in Practice The Veteran Suicide Crisis and the Political Choices That Sustain It Based on data from the VA's 2025 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report, covering statistics through 2023. Every day in America, an average…

The number becomes visceral when you translate it into actual human outcomes. Here are some concrete comparisons across different categories. In public health, $1.8 billion is roughly three years of full USAID funding for the DRC at pre-cut levels —…

This story has several layers and they all connect to decisions made over the past 16 months. On May 16, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a global public health…