"China had bet on a confident, defiant and nuclear-ambitious Iran. Instead, it is left with a battered partner whose utility has sharply diminished," Miles Yu writes. https://wapo.st/40NR71c
"The government still holds back America’s nuclear industry too much, but it’s a victory worth celebrating," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4suh2H4
"Khamenei did not rule through poetry. He ruled through executions, torture, censorship and fear."
From our readers in #PostLetters: https://wapo.st/40hgE2H
"At some point, this war will reach a tipping point and no one will be able to control the spillover," Fareed Zakaria writes. https://wapo.st/4aWnYqN
On the latest episode of "Reasonably Optimistic," David Ignatius talks to @mcmegan.bsky.social about ideas that can guide the Trump administration to achieve better outcomes in Iran.
"They are among the documents that formed a nation," Michael Auslin writes.
"And for the first time, they’ll be traveling together outside of D.C. as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration this year."
The Europe Central Bank report is a refreshing reminder that there are life-changing opportunities, not just risks, from the AI revolution, the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/3OS3jLR
"Trump does enough damage to America’s reputation by himself," @maxboot.bsky.social writes.
"He doesn’t need help from his undiplomatic diplomats." https://wapo.st/4ufcMwK
"Standing up to unreasonable and ethically challenging requests from the government ought to be commonplace in a free country," Adam Lashinsky writes. https://wapo.st/4lcztxK
"The guilty verdict... sets a devastating and absurd precedent for imprisoning people for essentially being bad parents," Kathleen Parker writes. https://wapo.st/47s9uMV
"This is a generation that has been told that relationships are among the most important things in life but has never been taught how to build one," @shadihamid.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4b5HWy2
"U.S. intelligence analysts have assessed that this campaign has a low likelihood of creating a stable, modernizing government," David Ignatius writes. https://wapo.st/3OOXi2x
"Browbeating private enterprises into divulging even more internal data won’t help people make informed decisions," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/3MOQ4Lo
"The incoming secretary would be wise to focus on targeting the most dangerous people who are in the country illegally, rather than rounding up otherwise law-abiding workers just to meet ambitious quotas," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/40dWjLS
"Turning airport security into a revenue stream for private contractors is not reform," writes Hydrick Thomas, president of the American Federation of Government Employees TSA Council 100.
Americans want security delivered by a stable, vetted, professional workforce accountable to the public."
"'The Wealth of Nations' is the British book from the American crisis that has endured," Nick Bunker writes. https://wapo.st/4r9zGmB
"A mineral security strategy depends on clean, enforceable supply chains, and Venezuela’s illicit flows are a source of contamination and sanctions evasion," Francisco Dallmeier and Cristina Vollmer Burelli write. https://wapo.st/46GsYx6
"International lawyers have too often retreated into a rigid formalism that refuses to grapple with moral and strategic differences everyone else can see," Julian Ku writes. https://wapo.st/4rbMucg
"The Japanese are getting serious about sharing more of the security burden in the region," the Editorial Board writes.
"Jacking up taxes on small employers isn’t going to help make the American economy fairer or more competitive," the Editorial Board writes.
"As devastating as the recent Potomac sewage spill is, the more painful truth is that it is common," a reader writes in Post Letters.
"I doubt this will be the last time that elites’ anxiety about our personal futures makes people believe the economy is headed for a doom loop," Megan McArdle writes.
"The key to any alliance fighting extremist Islam is Muslim countries that can put forward a contrasting and appealing vision," Seth Cropsey and Joseph Epstein write. https://wapo.st/3N3lHkb
On Feb. 28, the U.S. and Israel initiated strikes on Iran. What comes next?
@mcmegan.bsky.social and David Ignatius discuss: https://wapo.st/4r6xwUN
"For all the Trump administration’s insistence on the importance of deporting criminals, no one has made the job as complicated as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem," Carine Hajjar writes. https://wapo.st/4ueWlRq
Democrats have often come to grief by supposing that a candidate with traits associated with conservatism doesn’t need to moderate on issues, Ramesh Ponnuru writes. https://wapo.st/4s16IGE
"For the U.S. shale sector, high prices are the solution to prevent even higher prices," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4rJk3Du
"Progressive energy is certainly rising, but so far the tide has not turned into a wave that would complicate the party’s hoped-for path back to power," Henry Olsen writes. https://wapo.st/4b0oxOT
"Ukrainian forces have not only held Russian advances to a slow crawl, but they have begun to push Russian forces back in localized counterattacks," Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan write. https://wapo.st/4sowZyC
