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OPINION — Two months into the U.S.-Iran war, the global oil market has shifted from shock to siege. The Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s seaborne oil trade normally flows — remains effectively shut. And while Brent crude hovers around $108–$115 per barrel, theContinue Reading

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OPINION — Technology has a way of helping us skip steps. China skipped mass adoption of credit cards and went straight to mobile payments. Nigeria bypassed landlines and went directly to mobile networks. Indonesia moved past cable and into streaming. That’s infrastructure leapfrogging—when entire systems evolve because a better alternativeContinue Reading

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Britain freezes assets and travel for those accused of laundering billions and plotting Iranian-backed hostile activity., London freezes assets and travel for those accused of laundering billions and plotting Iranian-backed hostile activity. The British government has imposed sanctions on an Iranian-linked network accused of plotting attacks in the UK andContinue Reading

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It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington — or, more accurately, in Trumpenführerenführerland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the second woman ever to hold that title. WeeksContinue Reading

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Writing for The Wall Street Journal in 1980, the godfather of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, argued that conservatives ought to stop worrying about deficits and focus on the important work of cutting taxes. Unlike traditional fiscal conservatives, who insisted that all tax cuts be coupled with spending cuts to balance theContinue Reading