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Omar Dahabra is the founder and chief editor of Capitol Commentary, a political platform centered on bringing an independent political analysis to both domestic and global affairs.
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Examining how private prison companies are expanding their reach into digital surveillance and immigration enforcement, prioritizing shareholder value over human rights.
December 1, 2025 In America, our surveillance state rarely announces its next evolution with a press conference or any official announcement. Instead, it creeps forward in procurement filing and vagu...
November 19, 2025 The renewed escalation toward U.S. military intervention in Venezuela feels less like a fresh strategy of conflict and more like a tragic reprise of a script Washington never learne...
November 10, 2025 Across the United States, the cost of living is rising, while wages are stagnating. As the fight over the minimum wage in legislatures is becoming more prominent, it is important to...
Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City election represents not just a local political milestone but also a shift in the political dynamics that have defined American politic...
High-speed rail isn't a perfect form of transportation. What it is, however, is a necessary tool for any developed economy to achieve efficient transport and meet climate goals. In...
In the emotionally charged debates that often surround gun control, myths often gain credibility over data. In a time with increasing political, school, and general gun violence, a...
For decades, what has stopped the adoption of the most environmentally feasible energy source has been fear, born from decades of misinformation and misunderstanding. Headlines fro...
October 13, 2025 Trump's call to "win the AI arms race" has come at a steep environmental price. On October 6, 2025, the administration approved the Ambler Road Project, a 211-mile industrial corrido...
In the early days of October, Morocco erupted in the biggest protests since the Arab Spring. Across Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, and Agadir, hundreds of thousands of people have t...
Israel controls everything going in and out of Gaza. To combat Israel's oppressive dominance of Gaza's supplies, a group of activists labeled as the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) dec...
October 1, 2025 Today, on October 21st at 12:01 AM EDT, after Congress failed to pass appropriations for the new fiscal year, the U.S. federal government shut down. Our political climate, marked by p...
Earlier this month, Google quietly handed over a student activist's Gmail data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Their crime? Supporting Palestine. The subpoena wasn't signed...
Donald Trump's decision to call antifa a "domestic terror organization" is the most recent example in a larger campaign to criminalize protest. However, despite what this may sound...
For what seems all too common in this administration, "national security" is being used as an excuse to expand state power and repress individual rights. Secretary of State Marco R...
The House of Representatives recently passed an amendment banning any "politically motivated boycott of Israel, making Israel the only country that has this title. In the United St...
In the West, sanctions are often framed as a more humane alternative to armed conflict. But looking at their research, they are anything but peaceful. Findings recently published i...
Jeremy Corbyn's launch of a new party to represent disillusioned left-wing voters, titled 'Your Party,' arrives at a time when immigration and economic issues are at the forefront ...
In the United States of America, capitalist monopolies have been mostly unregulated, especially in contemporary times. While the merits of this capitalist system can be debated, wh...
Since Trump's victory in the 2024 elections, international students looking to further their education have faced an increasingly threatening U.S. immigration system. The State Dep...
On August 25th, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to start pressing criminal charges for those who burn the U.S. flag, a vow of "one ...
When Donald Trump cuts the ribbon in his new golf course in Scotland, or receives another private jet from the Qatari government, the imagery may seem familiar. However, those pers...
Leading up to Trump's 2024 election victory, Donald Trump campaigned (along with RFK) that America would have the "cleanest air and water on the planet." However, in practice, his ...
One afternoon in Gaza, the sky opens with parachutes of false hope. Families, not knowing if the sounds come from aid packages or bombs, peek out of their tents to glimpse at what ...
President Trump's recent approach to foreign policy on our southern border is an echo of 21st-century American failures. This August, the president signed a directive authorizing t...
Last week, President Trump hosted Putin in Anchorage, and the world watched for a sign of peace in a war that lasted over 3 years. Instead, the summit only lasted three hours, and ...
On the land lying south of Lake Okeechobee, there is a fight brewing that environmentalists say could unravel decades of work in restoration. The Southland Water Resource Project, ...
Traditionally, the process of drawing election maps has followed a standard principle. Every 10 years, a census is taken to determine the makeup of our population. States then use ...
History teaches us that silencing the press is the first step to silencing the truth. From NATO's shelling of media buildings during the Kosovo war to targeted killings of journali...
For generations, the land that is now being used for DeSantis and Trump's political goals has been the area where the Miccosukee people have lived. After urban development by settl...
Trump's way of naming things has always been, suffice to say, unusual. Whether it be his constant references to Joe Biden as Sleepy Joe, or more controversially, the COVID-19 Virus...
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