The Lee Administration's recent consideration of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz has sparked backlash from civil society and even among Lee's supporters. As public opposition grows, questions arise about
President Donald Trump’s proposal to raise the United States defence budget to an unprecedented $1.5 trillion in the 2027 financial year would add an estimated $5.8 trillion to the national debt over
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In a few hours, I fly to Latin America. This trip has been planned for several months by an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. He and his team are shooting a documentary about the US’s
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Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the
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The United States has seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in international waters of the North Atlantic after a dramatic, weeks-long pursuit that stretched from the Caribbean to waters northwest of Scotland, escalating
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Days before US forces carried out the January 3, 2026 raid that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, geopolitical strategist George Friedman was already warning that Venezuela itself was
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The U.S. forces carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela on Saturday, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The move also signals U.S. intentions to exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, which
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The dramatic capture of Nicolás Maduro, whatever its final legal and political characterization may prove to be, has once again exposed the uneasy intersection between power, legality, and strategic narrative in contemporary
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More than 2 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain under review, Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday, offering the most detailed estimate yet of the
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The U.S. State Department has expanded its visa bond pilot program, requiring travelers from seven additional countries to pay up to $15,000 in reimbursable deposits when applying for visitor visas. Effective January
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Editor’s Note: Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith are among the most influential contemporary American legal scholars writing on executive power, constitutional structure, and the law of the presidency. Bauer, a Professor of
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The capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces last week has exposed a complex web of secret negotiations and shifting allegiances within the Venezuelan government, revealing that one of Maduro’s
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Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company’s next generation of chips is now in full production, promising a fivefold increase in artificial intelligence computing power compared with its
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For more than two decades, China and Venezuela were bound by a sweeping bargain born of mutual need: oil for cash. Now, after the U.S.-backed ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, that
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The ruling class of the United States, severed from a fact-based universe and blinded by idiocy, greed and hubris, has immolated the internal mechanisms that prevent dictatorship, and the external mechanisms designed
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Updated Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro appeared in a New York City federal courtroom on Monday to face serious charges brought by the United States, including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of
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