Expanding Middle East Energy Pipelines: Pitfalls and Promise Expanding the Middle East’s energy pipeline network has potential pitfalls but also promise. Policymakers, companies, and host communities are weighing those tradeoffs as demand patterns shift and new export routes look attractive.

How the EU Passed Its New Strict Migration Rules Europe just finished a major push to tighten migration controls, and the story behind it is about politics, compromise, and shifting priorities. Lawmakers from capitals and Brussels negotiated a package focused

A Book-Length Rebuttal Is Coming "Rebutting such reporting in the detail it deserves would require a book-length argument — which I plan to provide." The sentence above is simple and deliberate: complex reporting can hide layers of context and error

What Hungary’s Election Loss Says to Donald Trump The defeat of Hungary’s prime minister is a clear lesson about the limits of governing only for a political base. Republican leaders should pay attention to how loyalty without reach can cost

Iran: Expect Uncertainty, Act with Strength Anyone who tells you they know for certain what’s going to happen next with Iran is operating under the spell of undue self-confidence. The Tehran regime is a mix of ideology, survival instincts, and