Weekly Perspective

 As we begin a new month, our team pulled together a discourse of #RandomThoughts On Our World on the Iranian Revolution of 2026 , the first year of the Trump Administration ,  Europe and other thoughts  as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve:

The Daily Beast interviewed Dr. Bruce Davidson on President Trump having had a stroke .

A discussion at the Daily Beast ensued on Minnesota , the ICE Crisis , Melania Trump , and Kristi Noem , featuring Michael Wolffe .

 On this Martin Luther King Day , our team pulled together some #RandomThoughts as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve:

 Our team pulled together #RandomThoughts on the Iranian Revolution as it rages on in Iran right now:  

  Iran is one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the birthplace of human rights , first articulated over 2,500 years ago by Cyrus the Great . However, Iran’s enduring importance and resilience have always flowed from something deeper: Iranians and Iranian culture . Across centuries of hardship, upheaval, invasion, and injustice, Iranians have always prevailed, not because of power or politics, but because of our art , poetry , music , philosophy , language , and collective memory . Iranian culture has been the vessel that has carried our values forward when institutions have failed. It has always preserved our identity when freedom was denied and has paved the way to self-determination, keeping meaning and coherence alive in the darkest times. Thank you to the Iranian people for what you have given the world through culture, literature, art , and for your enduring belief in human dignity . May you always shine brightly as the true representatives of our culture.

 We present this midweek analysis on the war in Ukraine , along with the State of Healthcare in America , as Obamacare subsidies have ended:    

The United States struck Venezuela and took Nicolas Maduro into Custody.  Our team released a snapshot earlier in our Perspectives Property and wanted to share it courtesy of Heather Cox Richardson , as shown above. We close out this analysis with the following on John Mearsheimer 's perspective: 

A new year is at hand here at the Daily Outsider . We are hitting the ground running as we present this courtesy Eyewitness News ABC7NY , as a new era has begun in New York City , as Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as Mayor of New York City .   We present this perspective courtesy Corey Rubin : Mamdani’s inauguration speech: three more observations By  Corey Robin  on  01.01.26 In addition to what I wrote earlier  today , I want to make three other observations about Mamdani's inauguration speech. First, Trump was almost completely absent from the speech. He came up, by name, only once, when Mamdani referenced the voters who cast their ballots for Trump in 2024 and then for Mamdani in 2025. He came up, by act, only once, when Mamdani made a reference to ICE raids . I don't think anyone believes Mamdani is not aware of Trump or what Trump can do to New York. So we have to ask why he refused to make Trump a feature of his speech. It's not because Mam...