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...

The Pew Research Center released its annual survey of global attitudes toward Israel in June 2026, and the findings painted a picture of near universal disapproval. A median of 67 percent across all 36 countries surveyed held unfavorable views of Israel. Not a single country had a majority viewing Israel favorably. Confidence in Prime Minister...

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...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s announcement that she would leave her current congressional seat behind and compete for Florida’s 20th Congressional District has triggered one of the most intense confrontations between black and Jewish political forces in recent years. The district, situated in Broward County and reliably Democratic, has served as a cornerstone of black political power...

Bolivia is experiencing its deepest political and economic crisis in four decades, and the responses from Washington and Jerusalem have been striking in their similarity. Since early May 2026, a massive wave of protests led by indigenous communities, miners, peasant unions, transport workers, teachers, and supporters of former leftist president Evo Morales has swept the...

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...

On January 31, 2026, FBI agents and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers executed a search warrant at a residence on Sugar Springs Drive in east Las Vegas, near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. What they found inside triggered one of the strangest criminal cases in recent Nevada history. Authorities discovered what they described as an...

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...