Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania)

Area under the control of the Syrian opposition has gotten richer while the regime has been getting poorer over the last several years, as measured by light emissions. The Assad regime was a failure on every dimension. It needed to go. History with a capital H demanded it. ...

Now you are beginning to see how unforgivable it is considered to be a fat midwesterner. ...

This is correct. It’s amazing how passive the youth are today. It might be the PC plus the entertainment options. But society has found a way to neuter the energy of idealistic youth. Maybe it sent them all into grad school and destroyed their souls. ...

Details of Assad’s last moments in power. *Hours before he left, told 30 army and security chiefs that Russian help was on the way *Didn’t tell his brother Maher he was leaving, the leader of an elite army unit *Did not tell two of his cousins. They tried to escape to Lebanon, while driving one was...

Andreessen went on Rogan claiming that there was a concerted effort by the Biden administration to debank conservatives using something called the “politically exposed person” category. To prove it, he links a story showing mostly that Muslims have had problems because post-9/11 regulations put the...

Jesse Singal on how Marc Andreessen got his facts wrong on Rogan, speaking with absolute certainty, and then backed up and said he's not familiar with the CFPB when people showed he was wrong. He even says "100%" when Rogan expresses surprise! This is not good. ...

Bashar al-Assad’s son, Hafez Bashar al-Assad. He participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad, representing Syria from 2016 to 2018. He did worse than anyone else on the Syrian team, leading some to allege he got to the competition through nepotism. ...

Assad sent a Christian leader to convince Orban on the need to protect Christians, with the hope that the message would get to Trump. Should’ve done an interview with Tucker instead. Needed some headlines about cracking down on LGBT. Too late now. ...

“Readers added context: mask off moment.” This is the end of the old Community Notes. Now it’s about editorializing. These things always start off targeting the least sympathetic before expanding. Shame. ...