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Trump’s Iran war is uniting a strange new anti-war alliance

About six months ago, I noted an interesting divide among the right-leaning or politics-adjacent podcasters and influencers who helped get Donald Trump reelected. They were either shutting up about politics, bending over backward to justify his policies, or citing a couple of issues — ICE and the Epstein files — as red lines causing them to […]

Americans will pay for Trump’s war in Iran

The United States and Israel launched a war against Iran Friday night, killing that nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with many other Iranian officials, and (reportedly) more than 150 people at an elementary school for girls.  In response, Iran has launched attacks against Israel, US bases in the region, and civilian targets in […]

Welcome to the March issue of The Highlight

America’s largest-ever generation — the baby boomers — is getting older. As it does, much of the burden of elder care is falling on another group: the “sandwich generation,” adults who are contending with caring for both their own children and for their parents. It’s a problem that will only grow, made worse by the […]

How Khamenei transformed Iran

In the weeks leading up to the latest US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran, there were reports that President Donald Trump’s administration was considering targeting Iran’s senior leadership, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Khamenei himself appeared to be preparing for the end.  Still, the fact that the supreme leader was killed in his home office in an […]

Khamenei is dead. Regime change will be much harder.

President Donald Trump triumphantly announced on Saturday that Israeli and US strikes had killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was the biggest target in a “decapitation” mission that also reportedly killed a significant number of top Iranian regime figures.  When presidents order airstrikes aimed at debilitating an enemy’s leadership and forcing political change, […]