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The 2026 Democratic primary season is producing a political development that would have been difficult to imagine only a few years ago: progressive candidates are winning nominations in contests marked by heavy outside spending, while opposition to political-action-committee money, criticism of Israel, and resistance to U.S. policy toward …

The growing number of books, novels and films imagining the fragmentation of the United States or the outbreak of another American civil war is not simply a literary fascination with catastrophe. It reflects something deeper in the American political imagination: a growing sense that the country’s political and …

 Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh Jordan has entered another period in which the question of the West Bank is no longer being discussed simply as part of the unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but increasingly as a direct question of Jordanian national security. For decades, Amman has warned that any fundamental change …

By Dr. Dan Steinbock              For China and the Global South, US-EU tensions are part of a broader struggle over selective globalization. The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market …

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh This year, 2026, marks the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the Cold War — the politico-ideological and military-economic confrontation between the blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. It also marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of its definitive conclusion, brought about by …

Dan Steinbock              After three months, the Ebola crisis in Central Africa has crossed a critical regional threshold. Concurrently, it reflects the emerging US/China division—and possible complementarity—of global health power. In late May, the principal question was whether the newly declared outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo …

From Strategic Alliance to the Brink in Northern Syria Dr. Musfafa Al-Tal What is happening in Syria today is not merely a passing escalation, nor even another episode in the familiar series of Israeli strikes. It is a mirror of the collapse of old equations, and a test …

How to control a technology whose spread and capabilities are outpacing our ability to manage its risks? That question has become increasingly urgent with the rise of artificial intelligence. One answer seemed to stand out: Keep the most powerful models under close supervision by limiting their release and …

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Iranian separatist groups have begun digging trenches and tunnels along the border with Iran, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Sulaymaniyah. Fighters have been redeployed from the Duhok mountains and northeastern Syria to the Iranian border, our correspondent reported, with heavy engineering …