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The Energy Crisis Is Worse Than You Think
Why This Could Be Worse Than the 1973 Oil Crisis
Graham Baughman
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Why the Strait of Hormuz Isn’t a Short‑Term Problem
Trump threatens allies and enemies alike to force the strait open, but it isn't that simple.
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No, Trump Didn’t Close the Border
Why enforcement theater has replaced actual immigration policy
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The “Free Speech” Administration Is Cancelling the Press
How regulatory power is being used to punish dissent
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Trump Was Tricked Into a War With Iran
Why Obama and Biden resisted—and Trump Didn't
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Sounding the Alarm: Why the War in Iran Is More Dangerous Than We’re Being Told
How Impulsive Escalation, Weakened Institutions, and Downplayed Risks Leave Americans Exposed at Home
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Trump Thinks He’s Found the “One Weird Trick” of Foreign Policy
Trump seems genuinely convinced that everyone else lacked the courage or the wisdom to decapitate hostile regimes. That was never the case.
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Who Is Steering American Foreign Policy? Trump, Netanyahu, and Congress’s Great Abdication
How Congress Abandoned War Powers—and How Trump Followed Netanyahu’s Lead
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Trump Does Not Recognize the Problems Americans Face: And a president who denies problems cannot solve them
During the president’s hours-long State of the Union speech, one thing became unmistakably clear: he does not recognize the problems Americans are living with as problems at all. In his telling, the country is roaring, success is complete, and dissent is deception. The gap between that performance and
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“I Can Destroy the Trade”: What the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Means for You
The Court just struck down Trump’s emergency tariffs — but prices won’t magically rewind, refunds won’t go to consumers, and the White House is already trying to re‑impose new tariffs
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When the Machine Works: Inside the Royal Court of Trump 2.0
Loyalty over truth, performance over accountability, and a presidency designed to keep moving until something stops it.
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The Loyalty Doctrine: Trump’s Escalating Assault on Military Independence
Why Trump keeps taking aim at the military when it won’t bend to his whims