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Our analysis reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U. S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.

Migrants are seeing flights and jobs vanish.

One month in, the Islamic Republic is winning merely by surviving.

The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.

Don’t overthink it. The Iran war is bad for Russia.

Escalation is already shattering Washington’s illusion of control.

At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.

The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.

An American myth reemerges for the Iran war.

By choosing escalation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson’s plan to fund both guns and butter unraveled.

Christine Smallwood on being the younger child, the loneliness of contemporary fiction, and feminist psychoanalysis

A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.

The Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck told her models to stay silent and look away from her while she worked. She would not tolerate conversation or a

Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry.

Around the year 1400 a young woman in Central Europe was given a saddle made of bone, likely for her wedding day. As she rode from her parents’ home to

I had an ultimately harmless encounter with ICE at an airport TSA checkpoint. It was a preview of a new, more sophisticated way to terrorize people.

The White House remains committed to achieving all of its war objectives despite a lack of NATO support.

A slew of new doomsaying books miss what’s coming round the bend.

“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, ” like its predecessor series, offers a prescient glimpse into contemporary politics.