USA-250: From State-Building to Global Leadership

President Donald Trump personally ordered CIA Director John Ratcliffe to travel to Moscow on a confidential mission whose contents were kept secret even from some senior White House officials. According to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting, the...

Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against CNN in a United States federal court, accusing the broadcaster of publishing false claims that Israeli military and intelligence units were deployed on Azerbaijani territory during the war with Iran. The...

The report titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” published by the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in August 2026, outlines a new phase in U.S. global trade policy. Its central argument is that exporters seeking to evade high...

After nearly six months of war, Washington is shifting the centre of pressure to the financial system. But the campaign’s success will depend not on the number of sanctioned tankers and intermediaries, but on whether the United States is prepared to...