1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (526+ words) The trilateral Israel-Lebanon framework signed on June 26, 2026, represents a welcome departure from that failed model. Assuming its provisions are faithfully implemented, the agreement reflects an overdue recognition that stability is achieved not by pretending threats do not exist but by…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (248+ words) Two hundred and fifty years ago, men in powdered hair and knee breeches did what no colony had ever done successfully. They broke away from the most powerful empire on earth. They were not bloodthirsty radicals. They had petitioned again…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (448+ words) New intelligence reportedly points to an escalating Iranian effort to retaliate for the 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani (Worthy News) " Israel has provided the United States with new intelligence indicating that Iran may be developing a fresh plan to assassinate President…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1035+ words) (Worthy News) " President Donald Trump closed a tense NATO summit Wednesday by hailing what he called "tremendous unity" inside the alliance, even after delivering blunt warnings to Spain, renewing his push for U. S. control of Greenland, and announcing a major step…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (686+ words) President says ideology has "never worked" and warns Americans not to trade freedom for false promises (Worthy News) " President Donald Trump used the closing press conference of the NATO summit in Ankara to deliver one of his sharpest warnings yet…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (666+ words) U. S. and Iran trade fire as Strait of Hormuz crisis threatens to reignite full-scale war (Worthy News) " President Donald Trump said he was uncertain whether the United States and Iran were sliding back into a full-scale war after U. S. forces launched a…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (564+ words) President Trump has had enough of Tehran. In fiery comments that echoed across Ankara on Wednesday, he declared the fragile ceasefire with Iran officially...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1103+ words) A client called me last spring to ask how a proposed change to the capital gains rate would hit his portfolio. Fair question. That's my job. Then he added something that stuck with me longer than the tax math did. He…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (355+ words) In late 2003, if you'd sat across the table from a team of negotiators from Al Qaeda to work out some kind of deal to end hostilities, what could have possibly come from it? The answer is nothing, because there is…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (598+ words) There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good and Bad Government," I had one of those moments. Nearly 700 years old,…...