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The Panic Seeps to Dodge City

Khalil Youssef Beidas

Inside the Bank Audi Play: How Public Money Became Private Profit

Samara Azzi

A necessary conversation: On Cyprus, security, and the missing half of the story

Yusuf Kanli

Trump’s Fateful Choice in Iran

karim Sadjadpour

Why Khomeinism Can’t Be Reformed

Walid Sinno

When alliance power turns coercive and security begins to fragment

Yusuf Kanli

Lebanon’s Double Accountability War: How Media and Public Opinion Became the Shield of the Powerful

Samara Azzi

Iran’s Murderous Regime Is Irredeemable

NYT

HEADLINES

Cash Economy

Lebanon’s Financial Gap Resolution Plan: Legalizing the Heist

The financial gap resolution plan announced by Nawaf’s government is being marketed as a path toward order, reform, and eventual…

It’s a Liquidity Problem, Not an Accounting Problem, Stupid

Banking Without Bankers: Why Lebanon Must End the Sub-Agent Experiment

Who Is Using the Hawala System in Lebanon — and Why It’s Growing

The Silence of the Lambs-Lebanon’s Leaders Look Away as One Man Stands Against the Storm

Federalism Is the Only Shield Lebanon and Iraq Have Left in a Nuclearizing Middle East

COMMENTARY

The Silence of the Lambs-Lebanon’s Leaders Look Away as One Man Stands Against the Storm

Lebanon’s banks are running out of excuses

Why There Will Never Be Another Einstein

Why We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy

Walter E. Williams

Magazine

Cyprus at a dual inflection point: Symbolism, fragmentation, and the politics of recalibration

Cyprus is approaching one of the most consequential political moments since the collapse of the Crans-Montana talks in 2017. On both…

Turkey in the Middle Eastern ‘swamp’

Yemen’s Arab Spring Left Its Air Force In Disarray

The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the service of Mother Russia

No-shows at the Wedding