When Reconstruction collapsed in 1877, Southern states didn’t mince words: they killed, expelled, or otherwise forced out Black legislators. Today the methods are more polished, but the aim is identical. Within weeks of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — which freed Southern states from Section 2 of […]
Day: June 22, 2026
Zelensky’s Ultimatum To Lukashenko Gives Putin The Chance To Finally Restore Deterrence
Russia can’t allow US-backed Ukraine to attack Belarus with impunity otherwise it risks losing its closest ally, whether to destruction or Lukashenko’s “defection” to the West, either scenario of which would shift the strategic balance of power in the Ukrainian Conflict to Russia’s supreme disadvantage. Zelensky gave Lukashenko one week […]
Trump’s European Network Is Cracking: Why Even His Closest Allies Are Beginning To Distance Themselves
For nearly a decade, Donald Trump cultivated something unprecedented in postwar transatlantic politics: an informal ideological network of European allies united not necessarily by institutions or treaties, but by political instinct. Leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni became symbols of a conservative-nationalist current skeptical of Brussels, […]
Bürgenstock U.S.-Iran Negotiations Seem Heading To Failure
On Sunday, June 21st, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met in Bürgenstock at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, with Iran’s delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to finalize the U.S.-Iran 14-point peace deal that was signed on Wednesday, June […]






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