The Iran war is the latest phase of a colonial project decades in the making, and Israel has finally dragged the U.S. into it.

Pennsylvania Governor and presidential hopeful Josh Shapiro is doubling down on his support for Israel, despite the party’s base moving in the other direction. Joe Kent’s resignation over the Iran war highlights fractures on the right over Israel.

Three weeks into the US-Israel war on Iran, the Iranian government has not collapsed, the region has not stabilized, and the costs are mounting. The architects of this war were wrong about nearly everything.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed that “very soon, Dahiya will look like Khan Younis,” publicly acknowledging that the genocide in Gaza is now Israel’s model for violence across the region.

The U.S. and Israel launched a full-scale air war on Iran. Twenty-three years after the invasion of Iraq, they are running the same playbook, but this time against a far more capable adversary, with no strategy and no accountability.