By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com How the U.S. Retreat Is Reshaping the Global Economy. For most of the last eighty years, the world economy—unequal, quarrelsome, and often unfair—rested on a stubborn assumption: when the system came under strain, the United States would still show up. Not always generously. Not always...

By William LeoGrande* – Responsible Statecraft But he shouldn’t be surprised. American presidents have been predicting collapse there since 1959 and the conditions are no different today. Of the 100 or more people killed in the U.S. military operation that abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores,...

By Eve Ottenberg* – Responsible Statecraft At the very least, the decision to cut loose every major Gaza humanitarian group could lead to the utter collapse of Trump’s peace plan. The Israeli noose around Gaza tightened December 30, with news that Jerusalem revoked the licenses of 37 aid groups that...

By Connor Greene* – Time Violent protests in Iran over the country’s weakening economy have now stretched beyond ten days, killing at least 45 people and intensifying pressure on the Islamic Republic as it confronts its most sustained unrest in three years. Among the dead are eight children and at...

By Leon Hadar* – Global Zetgeist Substack Trump’s Hemispheric Overreach and the Limits of American Power President Trump’s resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine—now rebranded as the “Donroe Doctrine” in an act of geopolitical ego-branding—represents yet another example of Washington’s chronic inability to adjust its strategic ambitions to the realities of...