On June 8, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) stood on the House floor and formally honored the survivors of the USS Liberty attack, demanding an investigation into Israel’s 1967 assault on an American naval vessel that killed 34 crew members and wounded 174 others. Survivors of the attack watched from the House gallery as Massie […]
Ronald Lauder has gained renewed attention in Donald Trump’s second term thanks to his six-decade friendship with the president and his family connection to Treasury Secretary Kevin Warsh, who is married to Lauder’s daughter Jane. As Politico reported when Warsh first emerged as a contender for Federal Reserve chair in 2017, Trump biographer Tim O’Brien […]
When private security guards physically assaulted environmental activists on the Zvernec Peninsula in late May 2026, video of the confrontation spread rapidly across Albanian social media and ignited a nationwide uprising that has forced uncomfortable questions about who truly owns Albania’s future. The full scale of Albanian discontent became clear on May 30, 2026, when […]
Batya Ungar-Sargon once mourned Hillary Clinton’s defeat so deeply that she wrote a 2016 essay for Dame magazine titled “Trump Ruined My Favorite Haunt”—lamenting that she could no longer enjoy a neighborhood bar whose regulars and bartenders had voted for Donald Trump. Fast forward to the present, she now calls herself a “MAGA leftist” and […]
If you criticize Israel on the American right today, expect to be labeled a Qatari shill by a network of pro-Israel commentators who have turned accusations of Gulf Arab money into a political weapon while ignoring the elephant in the room of Jewish influence in American foreign policy. This campaign has intensified dramatically since October […]
For decades, prominent Jewish voices have wrestled privately with an uncomfortable question. Does aggressive Israeli government conduct expose diaspora Jewish communities to backlash they did not invite? In early March, Ezra Klein brought that question back into public view. Speaking with former Obama senior adviser Ben Rhodes on a podcast episode titled “The Great Lie […]
In May 2026, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) led a group of 30 House Democrats in sending a formal letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding the United States end its decades-long policy of nuclear ambiguity regarding Israel. Castro explicitly cited the ongoing U.S. and Israel military conflict with Iran, noting that “fighting this war […]
