Browsing: Opinions

       After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over but so is the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). An Iranian official said Iran would no longer carry out its obligations under the MOU, citing US attacks that continued for 13 days before halting July 24. 

    On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the secretary of defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to combat what he claimed was “an epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital,” even though earlier that year, the D.C. United States Attorney’s office had announced that crime there was at a 30-year low.

    America’s Senate as constitutionally charged provides careful advice and consent on presidential nominations. Yet critics argue that if Senators confirm a nominee whose conduct has become the subject of significant ethical controversy, the hearing begins to resemble less a confirmation proceeding than a criminal tribunal determining whether alleged misconduct deserves promotion instead of greater scrutiny.

    Trump has agreed to give Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear capacity. It is widely reported that: “Under the agreement, Saudi Arabia will receive nuclear power reactors and potentially a facility for enriching uranium locally.” Civilian nuclear power requires enriched uranium. The capacity to enrich uranium for civilian reactor fuel, can be used to further enrich uranium until it is bomb-level enriched, producing plutonium and other deadly isotopes along the way.

     So wrote Sina Toossi and Nancy Okail recently in the Nation. Their words start opening a deeper level of understanding, one that I’m groping for. They go on: