The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored (Tripp Mickle, New York Times) If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and ...

9 Accused of Antifa Ties After a Violent ICE Protest Face Trial in Texas (Shaila Dewan and Alan Feuer, New York Times) The government said the protesters were part of a heavily armed “cell” of ...

The Moment of Reckoning Between America and Iran ( Economist) Donald Trump must soon choose whether to attack Iran or beat a humiliating retreat. Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank (Shira Efron, ...

The Trump Administration Wants to Put Antifa on Trial ( Economist) A case in Texas offers an opportunity to do so.

How Worried Should We Be About Nuclear War? (Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy) Rafael Grossi, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, says abandoning the idea of nonproliferation would be a “dramatic ...

India and Pakistan’s Water Politics Is Starting to Boil (Safina Nabi, Foreign Policy) Climate stress is rewriting the region’s rules of water sharing. Russia’s Economy Has Entered the Death Zone ( ...

The Framers greatly feared that a president or ruling national faction might someday gain power over the administration of elections. The Constitution guards against this danger by placing primary ...

The Founders Would Have Opposed ‘Nationalizing’ Elections (Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic) The writers of the Constitution sought an approach that balanced control between the states and the federal ...

What War with Iran Would Look Like (Arash Reisinezhad and Arsham Reisinezhad, The Atlantic) Decapitation strikes against the regime are likely. An invasion is not. Why Thai Conservatives Just Won Big ...

Why Pete Hegseth’s Anti-Harvard Crusade Doesn’t Make Sense (Lawrence J. Korb and Stephen Cimbala, National Interest) Harvard University’s graduate programs prepare rising leaders in the Department of ...

Did Iran Use Chemical Weapons on Protesters? (Andrea Stricker and Gregory D. Koblentz, National Interest) The international community should immediately investigate accusations that the Islamic ...

Xi’s Military Purge Probably Cuts Imminent Taiwan War Risk. Probably. (Nathan Attrill and Andrew Wilford, The Strategist) Xi Jinping’s latest purge of top military officers probably reduces the chance ...