Author: Shahir Shahidsaless (Middle East Eye) The tragedy of the Syrian war marks the decline of the United States as an unchallenged superpower. The brutal Battle of Aleppo tragically claimed hundreds of innocent lives, many…
The Political Theology Of Trumpian Evangelicalism
By Susan M. Shaw, Huffington Post Even as the disgraces, crassness, and affronts to human dignity increase almost daily in the Trump administration, many evangelical Christians continue to stand beside this regime. Although the words…
America’s Major Challenges in Middle East Policy, 2017
By Juan Cole (juancole.com) The incoming Trump administration is riven by a profound division between those determined to avoid deep entanglements in the Middle East, such as Donald J. Trump himself, and the hawks he…