FEBRUARY 5. 2026

The U. S. and Iran Agree on Holding Talks but Not Much Else

The two sides remain at odds over what will be discussed in Oman.

The Death of New START

The world’s two largest nuclear superpowers no longer have limits on their arsenals.

U. S. -Russia New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty Expires

The world’s two largest nuclear superpowers no longer have limits on their arsenals.

Senate Dems Who Pushed Meatier ICE Reform Shy Away From Criticizing Schumer’s Softer Package

Senate Democrats like Elizabeth Warren who pushed meatier ICE reforms shied away from criticizing Chuck Schumer’s softer package.

A Cricket Crisis With Olympic Consequences

By mishandling the T20 World Cup, India is ruining its 2036 Olympic dream.

America Is Trying to Bully the World Over Climate Change

The Trump administration has sabotaged a key maritime treaty.

What a Deal Between Trump and Cuba Might Look Like

The regime in Havana may concede on key issues but won’t give up power.

Greek PM: “I haven’t given up on the trans-Atlantic relationship. ”

Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Trump, NATO, and how Athens thinks about strategic autonomy.

Managed Deprivation in Gaza

Until humanitarian conditions improve, Trump’s Board of Peace doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Trump Shocked Canada Out of Complacency on Defense. Will It Last?

Ottawa has announced ambitious military spending plans, including in the sparsely protected Arctic.

Trump’s Hot New Critical Minerals Club

The U. S. administration is seeking to form a trade bloc with countries that it has otherwise scorned.

Lawmakers Call on Meta to Stop Running ICE Ad Featuring Neo-Nazi Anthem

Asked about an ICE ad featuring the song “We’ll Have Our Home Again, ” DHS said: “Not everything you dislike is ‘Nazi propaganda. ’”

Trump Is Strengthening the Logic of Authoritarianism and Nationalism in Turkey

In an illiberal world, the Turkish opposition can no longer convince voters that democracy alone is a source of strength.

An American Reckoning

Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War contributed to fifty years of foreign policy failures. It can help us understand the crisis facing American democracy today.

The Struggle for the Fed

The Fed is under attack. Can it be both protected and held accountable?

Painted Sermons

The dazzling works of Fra Angelico both testify to the immense wealth and power of fourteenth-century Florentine society and attempt to heal its pride, greed, and brutal inequality.

Toni Plays the Dozens

What’s so funny about Toni Morrison?

When the Chips Are Down

President Trump’s reversal of a ban on sales of advanced semiconductors to China undercut the strategic logic behind years of American policy that was meant to keep the US ahead in the race to develop AI systems.

A Student of Power

In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.

People Think

Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.