U.S. Politics

by Peter Zeihan and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui This piece is part of the Cutting Room Files, portions of the upcoming Disunited Nations text that were cut for length. Disunited [...]

This day was always going to happen. On October 7, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a partial withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria. Soon after, Turkish forces began moving south [...]

by Peter Zeihan and Melissa Taylor President Donald Trump has a knack for making Prime Ministers and Presidents hope to remain unnoticed. It’s a stunning ability given that national leaders [...]

I’m going to do something I loathe and quote something I read on Twitter June 24. In a pair of posts U.S. President Donald Trump asserted: Diction and statistical issues aside, these tweets [...]

The New York Times dropped a fun piece last week asserting a coalition of like-minded national security and intelligence professionals are neck-deep in an offensive cyber operation [...]

See Part 1: From Sears to Google and Part 2: From Order to Disorder… in America. So here’s where I get a bit nervous. One of the great truths in geopolitics between 1950 and [...]

The American political system is in breakdown. It isn’t a bad thing. It is perfectly normal. Healthy even. Let’s lay it out: The United States has a first-past-the-post electoral structure based [...]

Today’s story begins with the once-behemoth that is the American retail firm, Sears. In the last week of September Sears’ stock dipped below $1 a share, reducing the company’s market value below [...]

On Oct 1 the American, Canadian and Mexican governments announced their mutual agreement to a revised treaty text for the North American Free Trade Agreement. As it was at formation, NAFTA [...]

American relations with Turkey got very interesting last week. An ongoing disagreement over the status of an American pastor, Andrew Craig Brunson, who thought it a good idea to proselytize in a [...]