Jake Shields, a retired mixed martial arts champion and popular right-wing podcaster and influencer, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has accused of promoting “antisemitism, racism and bigotry,” posts about the Epstein files regularly. On a recent episode of his show, he spoke about the fighting between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, expressing admiration for the militia’s resilience. “I’m a big fan,” he said of the Houthis. “I think they’re kind of badass.” It was precisely the kind of reputation and response that experts say the Houthis have sought to cultivate with their military and messaging campaigns.

 

The Epstein Files Produce an Unlikely Weapon for the Houthi Messaging Wars

The Yemeni militia is using the culture of its sworn enemies in the renewed fighting with Saudi Arabia.

CoreWeave’s Bond Rout is premised on the flawed idea that is about to crash all AI in a reckoning similar to the WEB's 2000 version which took down my position in Sun Microsystems

CoreWeave’s Bond Rout Should Make the Fed Cautious

By Jonathan Levin

Jonathan Levin is a columnist focused on US markets and economics. Previously, he worked as a Bloomberg journalist in the US, Brazil and Mexico. He is a CFA charterholder.

 

Mr. Trump offered no explanation beyond a statement that “the issuance of such a waiver at this time is in the national interests of the United States.” The opposite is true, and Mr. Trump is now Mr. Putin’s best friend in the world, after perhaps China’s Xi Jinping. Mr. Putin responded Friday night to Mr. Trump’s latest gift with one of the largest attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the four-and-a-half-year war. The assault included strikes on more than 15 power generation and transmission facilities.

 

To Russia With Love, Signed Donald

By

The WSJ Editorial Board

Updated Oct. 18, 2026 5:16 pm ET

Donald Trump, meet Neville Chamberlain. When future students search online for “sellout,” “appeaser” or “traitor to his country’s core values,” their two pictures will come up first, side by side. And deservedly so. At least Chamberlain was trying, in what proved to be lethally misguided fashion, to avoid a world war. Trump is trying to avoid losing a few seats in Congress — and is likely to be no more successful in achieving his goal than Chamberlain was in achieving his.

 

Trump’s Democracy-for-Diesel Deal Shames Us All

By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

There is simply no core American value Trump will not sell out. Desperate to lower diesel prices, which are hurting Republicans in the midterms, Trump actually made a deal to import diesel fuel from Russia, even though it offers a potential windfall for the Kremlin so it can bomb Ukraine harder — and is unlikely to help lower prices or increase supplies much at all. Worse, his aides then asked Ukraine to refrain from attacks on Russia’s oil refineries, without Trump making the same demand of Putin regarding Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. It makes me sick to my stomach to even type this.