As tensions with Iran are expected to ease under the Biden administration, the United Arab Emirates’ economic ties and legacy relations position it to potentially play a pivotal role in Gulf outreach to Tehran, writes Banafsheh Keynoush.

After the recent attacks on Asian American elders, activism in the Asian American community has been on the rise, writes Christine Kim.

In order to halt the loss of innocent life in Iran, it is time for the United States to take a dramatic step: remove sanctions and bring Iran to the negotiating table, writes Ida Ghohestani.

As the Biden administration addresses the threat from the hostile landscape inhabited by jihadis who continue to plot attacks on the United States, it must decide whether to continue or affirm the Trump administration’s retreat from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia, writes Bennett Ramberg.

The approval of a new national security law in Mexico promises to disrupt security cooperation between Mexico and the United States, writes the Monarch Global Strategies team.

Arash Azizi’s fluent and groundbreaking new biography of the late Qassem Soleimani, The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran’s Global Ambitions, is a well-sourced work of history with revelations that verge on the amazing, writes Peter Theroux.

Here is some context on whether we can trust the COVID-19 vaccine, write Peter Katona and Seth Freeman.

As we remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, we cannot take for granted the democratic freedoms we all enjoy and we must continue to fight for and defend the values that are the foundation of our Western democracies, writes Ambassador Carla Sands.

As we increasingly realize that the race to ensure healthcare worker wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic is a marathon and not a sprint, we must adjust our response to playing the long game, write Karen Miotto, Jesse Sanford, and Seth Freeman.

Not without some major changes, writes Abraham Wagner.