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What happens to the global economy when one shipping lane shuts down? Roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply moves through a single narrow passage: the Strait of Hormuz. When that corridor is stable, global energy markets function normally. When it is disrupted, the consequences ripple across the entire world economy. I recently examined two very different policy environments affecting this critical chokepoint: • The diplomatic framework following the Joint Comprehensive

Everything We Need Is Getting More Expensive — But Not Better Over the past decade, the price of nearly every essential service in the United States has risen sharply. Yet consumer satisfaction with the value of those services has remained largely unchanged.

Extensive economic and demographic research shows that **immigration provides a net benefit to the United States**. Studies from institutions such as the Congressional Budget Office, the National Academies of Sciences, and the Brookings Institution consistently find that immigrants expand the labor force, increase economic output, and contribute to government revenues through taxes. Immigration also helps offset the economic pressures of an aging population and declining bir

If a targeting system relies on AI trained primarily to recognize buildings rather than human context, it is entirely plausible that a school—especially one previously associated with a military site—could be misidentified as a legitimate target because the model simply was never trained to recognize the subtle cues that distinguish children at recess from military activity.