Weekend Edition

US Policy

Sep 6, 2026

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13 min read

The Weight of Command

Twenty-five years after September 11, six commanders from three armies, the courage each one showed, and the covenant their citizens owe them.

Gregg Roman

Iran

The Anti-Woke Diaspora: Surviving the Red-Green Alliance

Aug 30, 2026

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15 min read

The Anti-Woke Diaspora: Surviving the Red-Green Alliance

Young Iranians in exile watched the left deliver power to the theocrats once. Twenty of them are now the West's clearest voices against doing it again, and the fight they are pointing at is inside Iran.

Gregg Roman

The Long View

Aug 23, 2026

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12 min read

Trotsky, Lenin, and Gaza

The crucible of Israel's next prime minister.

Gregg Roman

The Long View

Alone in the Ranks: Israel's Lone Soldiers and the Alliance That Shows Up

Aug 16, 2026

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14 min read

Alone in the Ranks: Israel's Lone Soldiers and the Alliance That Shows Up

A first look at the book I have begun writing: the IDF's lone soldiers, from the volunteers of 1948 to the post-October 7 generation. Free for every reader.

Gregg Roman

Iran

Aug 9, 2026

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8 min read

The Anatomy of a Leaked Operation

The Long View: The Mossad reassigned the men who promised to topple Tehran. The mission stands; the instrument was wrong. Plus the week in review and what to watch.

Gregg Roman

The Long View

El-Sayed, the DSA, and the Battle for Michigan

Aug 9, 2026

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8 min read

El-Sayed, the DSA, and the Battle for Michigan

He says he isn't DSA. The source code powering his Michigan Senate victory tells a very different foreign policy story.

Gregg Roman

The Long View

One Call, Two Futures: How Saudi Arabia is Playing the Long Game

Aug 2, 2026

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17 min read

One Call, Two Futures: How Saudi Arabia is Playing the Long Game

The Long View: Saudi Arabia holds a nuclear deal it can only unlock by normalizing with Israel, and a Pakistani pact it can invoke without normalizing anything. The record of how Riyadh is choosing, in its own words.

Gregg Roman

Weekend Edition

The Weight of Command

The Anti-Woke Diaspora: Surviving the Red-Green Alliance

Trotsky, Lenin, and Gaza

Alone in the Ranks: Israel's Lone Soldiers and the Alliance That Shows Up

The Anatomy of a Leaked Operation

El-Sayed, the DSA, and the Battle for Michigan

One Call, Two Futures: How Saudi Arabia is Playing the Long Game

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