Open Dialogue Research Journal
For decades, commentators have tried to explain one of the most significant political transformations in modern American history: the steady erosion of Democratic support across rural America and the simultaneous consolidation of Republican dominance in communities that once formed the backbone of the New Deal coalition. The phenomenon has often […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on 22 June 2026 that he would step down as leader of the Labour Party and resign as prime minister once a successor had been chosen, ending a premiership that lasted less than two years after Labour’s landslide victory in the 2024 general election. […]
The latest escalation between Iran and Israel has pushed the Middle East into another period of dangerous uncertainty, raising a critical question for regional observers and international diplomats alike: can negotiations survive when military confrontation appears to offer some factions greater leverage than diplomacy? Recent developments suggest that the answer […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
First, here’s Trump signing the U.S. surrender to Iran: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2067393004239814711 It happened at the same place where Germany had surrendered in WW1, in the Palace at Versailles, outside Paris, on 28 June 1919. In my June 9th “Reading the News Between the Li(n)es: Arab Kings Had Trump Stop Netanyahu”, I explained […]
For years, Hunter Biden occupied a unique place in American politics. To his critics, particularly within the MAGA movement, he represented everything they believed was wrong with the Biden family – a symbol of privilege, scandal, addiction, and alleged corruption. His personal struggles became campaign material, his legal problems generated […]
The global trading system may be heading toward another period of uncertainty as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to revive one of the defining features of his economic agenda: tariffs. In a move that could affect more than 60 major trading partners, Trump has proposed new import duties ranging from […]
On June 9, 1999, at the military airfield near Kumanovo, Lieutenant General of the Yugoslav Army Svetozar Marjanović and British General Michael Jackson signed the Military-Technical Agreement. The document ended the 78-day NATO air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. But what lay on the tables in Macedonia was […]
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