US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s deployment of religious rhetoric in the Iran war has come under increased scrutiny. What happens when the line between political conflict and religious warfare blurs?

Former American Embassy employee Kathryn Koob answers a minute of questions about Tehran in 1979 in this episode of Wait Just a Minute.

Cohort, 2025, Industry, Food & Agriculture, Sector, Non-profit, Social Media, Dion Dawson is the founder and chief dreamer of Dion’s Chicago Dream, a nonprofit social enterprise combating food insecurity through logistics and last-mile delivery in the United States Midwest region. His system pr...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Non-profit, Nicholas Gross is the senior vice president for government programs at AAR Corp, a leading provider of aviation services to the worldwide commercial aerospace and government/defense industries. He oversees a diversified portfolio ...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Advocacy & International Development, Sector, Academia, Before teaching at the University of Rochester, Milena Novy-Marx worked at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, co-leading a two-year effort to develop the foundation’s initiative on global migration a...

la carte approach to foreign policy, along with the tariffs Trump imposed worldwide ... see US economic power (71%), military strength (63%), and technology and innovation ... economic power, though Republicans are just as likely to point to US military

Independents who lean toward neither party could play a decisive role in the 2024 presidential election.

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