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A military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.

The Middle East conflict shows Washington hasn’t yet learned enough about cheap drones from Kyiv.

The administration’s rush to secure the components for the military could benefit renewable energy — someday.

Each day of war that passes adds to the physical risks to global oil and gas, but so far markets have basically shrugged.

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Democratic primary voters stuck with the incumbent backed by the AI lobby over a challenger running against corporate power and AIPAC.

Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains.

Reads that shed light on the origins of today’s conflict—and Tehran’s possible future.

In every era a certain kind of unprincipled demagogue driven by an insatiable need for attention and a sense of what will capture the public's imagination rises to the fore. In the early years of France’s Third Republic, it was the ludicrous Marquis de Morès.

A new history brings to light the dissenting women who wrote, preached, and testified during England’s tumultuous seventeenth century, claiming the standing to speak as excluded outsiders who had un unfiltered knowledge of God.

Chiang Kai-shek had enormous flaws as a leader, but something was nonetheless lost to China when he and his Republican government were forced into exile on Taiwan.

A new history of satire wants to limit the genre to its political ramifications, but satirists are often interested in the whole person and their capacity for vice.

Progressives may have lost the battle for racial affirmative action, but ironically, Supreme Court decisions should allow colleges to give advantage to groups defined by their income, geography, or heritage.

The Israeli writer S. Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed.

The diary of the sixteenth-century physician Felix Platter is without precedent in early modern literature.

The Leiden Collection—one of the largest private collections of Dutch art in the world—was conceived as a “lending library for Old Masters, ” animated by the humanist spirit found in Rembrandt’s paintings.

When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.

In David Greig’s novel The Book of I, a monk, a Viking, and a ‘mead wife’ navigate a world torn between paganism and Christianity.

When an angel in a recently restored Roman chapel was seen to resemble Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, it touched off a very Italian scandal.

The representatives of our two-party system have made it into a weapon that works against the people.