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“The administration doesn’t have a clue. They do not have an actual, real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath of this. ”

Embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem froze FEMA spending and slashed staff. It may well have been illegal.

The Middle Eastern conflict could drain Ukraine’s supply of key defensive munitions and push U. S. President Donald Trump to quickly reach a deal with Russia.

The U. S. war on Iran will weaken Islamist groups and embolden the Israeli right.

Only by working together can Kurdish groups and the Iranian opposition forge a better future.

Iran’s attacks on its neighbors are a reminder that the United States cannot protect them.

Americans across the political spectrum need to stop talking about Tehran in cliches.

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.