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From Leverage To Liability: The Hormuz Strait Is Now Iran's Biggest Weakness Authored by Daniel Lacalle, For half a century, the Strait of Hormuz was Iran’s weapon. Today, it is its noose. The mathematics of energy have flipped, and with them the balance of coercive power in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s implicit deterrent was geographic, spanning from the tanker wars of the 1980s to the sanctions standoffs of the 2010s. Almost 20% of global seaborne oil, and a similar share of liquefied natural gas, passes through the Strait. The formula was simple:...

National Public Radio (NPR) show All Things Considered aired a report Monday concerning how NPR is doing after the elimination of United Sates government funding. The overall assessment came in roughly as “Things are going alright.” David Folkenflik reported in the segment that NPR is suffering from an eight million dollars shortfall, amounting to a […]

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live The Jacobins! Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions. Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks—often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative. By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights. Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and...