[T]he risk is that unconditional sanctions relief could once again reinforce Iran’s external projection of power rather than stabilize its domestic economy.
European autonomy - military, technological, economic, and financial - is beginning to take shape as Europe hedges against current and future fluctuations in [U.S.] policy.
The shift now underway is unlikely to take the form of a dramatic collapse of American power in the Gulf. It is more likely to be subtler and, for the region, more unsettling.
Historically, there have been generational inequalities in the U.S.; the average white man’s family’s wealth through inheritance over multiple generations is $700,000 more than that of the Black man.
Since the election of climate skeptic Donald Trump ... major cities as well as some companies have instead shown themselves to be even more determined to implement [the Paris Agreement].