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The Case For–and Against–Striking Iran
The term “fog of war” usually describes the murkiness that combatants experience in conflict zones. For our purposes, it might also apply to the messages coming out of the White House over the past day or so.
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Rubio Remarks Blow Open MAGA’s Israel Divide
MAGA’s ascendant “America First” wing erupted after Secretary of State Marco Rubio effectively blamed Israel for drawing the U.S. into war with Iran.
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Trump, Forever Wars and Iraq Syndrome
For Trump, the opposite of an endless war is not no war. It is a quick war with a clear purpose and a decisive ending.
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By Closing Moscow’s Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History
The Gulag History Museum in Moscow has been permanently closed. I wrote about my 2016 visit to the museum dedicated to detailing the brutalities experienced by 15 million to 18 million Soviet citizens imprisoned and 1.5 million murdered by the communist regime in the USSR’s vast system of forced labor camps. Only after dictator Josef Stalin’s […]
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Mirabelli Offers a Beautiful Vision of the Emergency Docket
Mirabelli v. Bonta represents an important installment in the Supreme Court’s developing emergency docket jurisprudence. Indeed, I think it is extremely significant that both Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh appear to be on the same page, and are joined by Chief Justice Roberts. Justice Gorsuch did not join the concurrence, but I suspect that was because of […]
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Sunnyside Yards and the Errors of Pro-Growth Progressivism
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter includes stories on: Two New Jersey property owners successfully fend off an effort by Perth Amboy to seize their properties on bogus blight allegations. A ban on corporate home purchases is slipped into Congress’ bipartisan housing legislation. The true cost of permitting […]
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DOJ Briefly Abandons Trump’s Unconstitutional Orders Targeting Law Firms
Last year in a series of executive orders, President Donald Trump targeted numerous law firms that had represented Democrats. Several of the firms fought back, and this week, his administration decided to drop its appeals, before apparently changing its mind within 24 hours. While dropping the case would be a welcome development, it would do […]
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15 Essential Tips for Institutional Investors to Maximize Returns Using Options: The 2026 Alpha Playbook
Institutional investment management in 2026 has transitioned into a sophisticated derivatives-led era where traditional long-only strategies often fail to meet the required risk-adjusted hurdles. As macroeconomic volatility becomes a permanent fixture of the global landscape, the strategic application of options has moved from the periphery of “hedging” to the core of “alpha generation” and “portfolio […]
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Formula 1 Is About To Get a Lot More American
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Get out there and get a hit today—or don’t, and maybe you’ll win anyway. This week’s newsletter has a bit of a motorsports focus. It’s a sports broadcasting regulations sandwich, with open-wheel racing serving as the bread slices. Take a bite! Locker Room Links The World […]
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SCOTUS Saves Staten Island
My hometown of Staten Island is often called the forgotten borough. Everyone knows about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. But Staten Island is known, if at all, as a conduit to get from New York to New Jersey. In terms of the famous New Yorker magazine cover, Staten Island lies beyond the Hudson River. […]
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