We are at another turning point. For nearly half a century, since the 1979 revolution and the seizure of our embassy, Iran’s rulers have treated the United States as their enemy.…
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Strait of Hormuz
My life-long amateur studies of the natural world, particularly birds and plants, with a special affinity for ferns, have convinced me of the validity of evolution. So, in my predictably quirky way of explaining away my wealth of eccentricities, my sense is that as one ages—evolves, that is—getting to chores in a timely way is not as necessary as it used to be.…
The Middle East presently is free of housing a nuclear weapons state, except for Israel. For its part, Israel has engaged in what observers characterize as “nuclear ambiguity.”…
By far the most widely felt effects of this war will be economic. About a fifth of global oil and gas production passes down the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, along more than a thousand miles of rugged, fortified Iranian coastline.…
