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Persian Gulf
April 9, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Stranded Students in Persian Gulf With Iran War
About six American cadets were working on ships in the Persian Gulf when Donald Trump launched a war.
April 3, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
This Is Trump’s Only Comment as Second U.S. Plane Crashes in Iran War
Why is the president not briefing the nation on what’s going on?
March 26, 2026
Edith Olmsted
U.S. Troops Abandon Military Bases Amid Iran Strikes
Service members have been forced to work remotely.
March 24, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Sending Troops to the Gulf Despite Claiming He Wants a Deal
The 82nd Airborne Division could be deployed very soon.
March 23, 2026
Timothy Noah
The Reason Trump Isn’t as Perturbed by Rising Oil Prices as You Are
The president has fashioned the U.S. into a petrostate, in which all roads lead to his own enrichment.
May 16, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Whines About How His Gift From UAE Isn’t Good Enough
This isn’t funny when you consider all the other “gifts” he’s gotten from dictators.
May 7, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has a New Target in His Weird Renaming Crusade
Donald Trump wants to rename something that’s not even near the U.S.
February 29, 2012
Martin Peretz
Friends of Syria: Obama, Clinton, the Saudi King, All Pusillanimous, One Worse Than the Other
June 3, 2011
Fouad Ajami
Robert Gates Is Right About Iraq
April 30, 2011
Eric Trager
The Throwback
April 15, 2011
Steven Metz
Swan Song
March 31, 2011
Michael Makovsky, Blaise Misztal, Jonathan Ruhe
Spring Trap
August 31, 2010
Andrew J. Bacevich
Obama Wants Us To Forget the Lessons of Iraq
August 11, 2010
Reuel Marc Gerecht
What Is Moderate Islam?
June 18, 2010
Martin Peretz
Are You Sick Of Reading News From Iran? I Am Not. I’ll Share Mine With You.
May 21, 2010
Al Gore
The Crisis Comes Ashore
March 31, 2010
Michelle Cottle
The Sheriff
January 3, 2010
Martin Peretz
The President Finally Uses the Word "Terror." So Abdulmutallab Is No Longer an "Isolated Extremist." He Is a Muslim Terrorist.
December 14, 2009
Martin Peretz
Simon Schama: Barack Obama And The Moral Weight Of Human Realism
December 10, 2009
Seyward Darby
Dubai for Borat? Bad Idea.

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