I’ve grown to hate the phrase “the new right” — even though I’ve often used it myself. There is nothing new about the MAGA right, including its Christian nationalist wing. Its ideas have been tried before, and they have failed before, including in a regime that is rightly remembered by the French as a source of national shame.

 

Christian Nationalism’s Dark Forebears

By David French

Opinion Columnist

Tony Sanchez: Condy is neither intelligent, nor informed, nor rational regarding this illegal, wrong-headed Israeli/US war on Iran. i) Time is not on the US side. Oil prices have been mitigated by reserves which will be functionally exhausted by July. ii) To protect the Jewish state, the US foolishly wasted extremely expensive interceptors and missiles which cannot be quickly replaced. This has left the US and her allies in Asia unable to present a reasonable deterrent to China and her allies. iii) US credibility is in complete shambles. As Friedrich Merz has pointed out Iran's clever use of asymmetric warfare has given it a more practical weapon than a nuke, control of the Strait of Hormuz, Bab-el-Mandeb (applied with the Houthis) and a veto over what the US and Gulf states can do if they want to keep their bases and critical infrastructure. iv) About 8,000 Iranians and Lebanese have been killed illegally and unnecessarily along with about 50,000 seriously wounded and millions forcibly displaced from their homes. This tragedy is not on Callous Condy's Neo-Con radar v) The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion whilst your fuel and grocery bills are increasing. Condy thinks that is a big win! vi) Who knows, apart from the IRGC, exactly what the status of Iran's nuclear program is? Yet Condy pretends to have knowledge of this which she does not. Pure disingenuousness by her! In sum, except for US Neo-Cons like Condy, right-wing Israeli extremists like Ben-Gvir, and IRGC, this has been a debacle!

 

What the U.S. Has Accomplished in Iran

The regime is much weaker, and time is on the side of the U.S. and its allies that want a more stable region.

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By

Condoleezza Rice

June 3, 2026 2:27 pm ET

Has the counter to Bibi Netanyahu's belligerence been war gamed with Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants stop shipping in Red Sea in support of Hezbollah in Lebanon?

 

War Games and Warnings on Strait of Hormuz Went Unheeded by Trump

Over the past two decades, Iran repeatedly threatened to close down the waterway. President Trump underestimated Iran’s ability to do so.

By Michael Crowley

Reporting from Washington

June 2, 2026

The display of force that Russia rained on Ukraine early Tuesday, with hundreds of drones and missiles, cannot mask the increasing signs of Moscow’s weakness in the four-year war. Weakness because wars are not won by bombing civilians

Russia Is Showing Signs of Weakness in Ukraine. So It Hits Harder.

The war has not been going the Kremlin’s way, with battleground losses and growing casualties. With fiercer strikes, Moscow hopes to gain a better position for negotiations.

By Lara Jakes

Lara Jakes covers European defense and diplomacy.

June 2, 2026

Having a president who behaves like a commander in thief — not a commander in chief — is costing us dearly at home and abroad. This perversion of the American presidency is undermining the very alliance structure that won two world wars and the Cold War and generated one of history’s longest ages of peace and prosperity. Every day we tolerate such behavior we endanger our children’s future.

 

Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief

By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

However triumphantly the White House portrays any deal, officials shouldn’t mistake this for anything but a strategic debacle. The war, launched without a coherent strategy or realistic endgame, has produced a more hard-line regime in Tehran — one that now knows it can strangle the world economy with a few drones, mines and fast boats. Gulf neighbors that once sought to isolate the Islamic Republic are now looking to mend ties. The threat of US and Israeli attack no longer carries the same potency.

 

An Iran Truce May Be Near. That Doesn’t Make This War Any Smarter

May 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT

By The Bloomberg Editorial Board

The Editorial Board publishes the views of the editors across a range of national and global affairs.

It’s hard to imagine the three debutantes delivering a post-IPO payoff anywhere near what publicly traded technology giants have produced in recent decades.The math is laughable, in fact. Median market capitalization at IPO for the Magnificent Seven was $1.2 billion. Their median market cap is now $3.1 trillion, more than a 2,500-fold increase. For SpaceX to achieve comparable growth from a $1.8 trillion starting valuation, it would have to approach a value of $5 quadrillion.

 

SpaceX Needs to Get to $5 Quadrillion to Rival Mag Seven Magic

June 1, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT

By Nir Kaissar

Nir Kaissar is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering markets. He is the founder of Unison Advisors, an asset management firm.

I can't stop laughing at the absurd valuation of the SpaceX IPO