Noah Rothman

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The United Kingdom is on a trajectory toward slow-motion collapse.

It’s time to cut bait.

Rebutting such reporting in the detail it deserves would require a book-length argument — which I plan to provide.

Anyone who tells you they know for certain what’s going to happen next with Iran is operating under the spell of undue self-confidence.

Those who believed the war was a disaster from the outset seem convinced that worst-case outcomes are inevitable. They’re not.

His threats are overheated and politically unhelpful, but his domestic opponents are skewing the facts in response.

On Easter morning, U.S. forces rescued a downed pilot from the middle of Iranian territory, advancing America’s tactical and strategic position.

In an event not acknowledged until last week, Barksdale Air Force Base was targeted by ‘multiple waves’ of unmanned aerial vehicles in March.

The media’s dour outlook seems wholly divorced from an objective appraisal of the war in its fourth week.

So far, the data do not suggest that Republicans lack the stomach for challenging the status quo in the Middle East.

There are no such regime forces inside Iran that would have led it to a brighter day if only the West hadn’t killed them first.

But not literally.

Some perspective is in order.

For some, it is a disorienting experience.

The regime’s armed forces are mounting the very offensive that was expected to accompany the theocracy’s final moments.

Are the Iranians actively attempting to rebuild their capabilities, or aren’t they?

There is something revealing about a discourse in which anything short of toleration for the incontinent unhoused is tantamount to fascism.

Even left-of-center analysts have thrown cold water on the far left’s self-flattering narratives.

‘I don’t think anyone really understands the scale or capacity we have because no one’s ever seen it before.

There are dots here that should be connected.

Conditions on the island are deteriorating rapidly.

We must be able to call domestic political terrorism by its proper name.

The goal should be to allay the public’s concerns as much as possible, not to fuel them.

But why would the United States indulge this fantasy?

The caricature that Joe Biden’s hapless image-makers engineered for the former president is about to make a comeback.

Portland wasn’t alone, as local protesters clashed with local police over the weekend.

Democrats should be wary of reading too much into the polling.

In securing its survival through slaughter, the Iranian regime has sacrificed its tenuous remaining claims to legitimacy.

To hear the president and his allies speak of it, it is a United Nations in miniature — one under the president’s control.