Notes in the Margin

US-Israel's plan to make Iran a failed state like Syria has failed. The US didn't even get Iran's enriched uranium. 

A late 1953 Agency memo documents how the CIA for years broadcast “black radio transmissions” in Ukrainian from a secret CIA installation in Athens, Greece.

On June 8, 1967, the U.S.S. Liberty was attacked by the State of Israel. Our “greatest ally” killed 34 Liberty crew members and wounded 173. 

President Donald Trump claims a peace deal with Iran is only "two or three" days away.

"The introduction of the smartphone "played a sizable role in the decline in US births" after 2007 as it shaped people's behavior with less in-person contact.

Prof. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Israel delivers the Laudatio in honor of Dr. Ron Paul, recipient of the 2026 Hayek Medal awarded at the Annual Conference of the German Hayek Society on May 22, 2026, in Münster, Germany. 

Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud to obtain their citizenship.

A reminder that GW Bush and the "war on terror" made a mockery of the Bill of Rights. 

The order reclassified thousands of federal workers as at-will employees, meaning the government can now terminate them without offering a reason.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Tuesday criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s decision to stay on the central bank’s board.