Lebanon had once again been plunged into a war that had nothing to do with its national interests, by a militia group that ...

Missile attacks across the Middle East, preparations for the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games in Italy, a dog-grooming ...

The defense secretary appears unable to approach matters of of life and death with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility.

The United States is now enmeshed in so many conflicts that its foreign policy is closer to “world police” than “America ...

In the fall of 2022, Iran sold the Kremlin designs for a drone known as the Shahed-136, and Russia has since produced and ...

So far, the Trump administration has offered at least 10 separate rationales in just six days. Let’s start shortly after the first missiles launched early Saturday morning. In an eight-minute address ...

But now comes a small, influential group of hard-line right-wingers who believe that, in the words of one popular meme in such circles, McCarthy was right. McCarthyite revivalism has flitted around ...

This isn’t Enrigue’s first foray into historical absurdism. His previous novel published in English, You Dreamed of Empires, retells the encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec ...

The last time an Iranian regime was overthrown, the resulting oil crisis eventually saw Americans lining up at gas stations and paying double what they’d spent a few years earlier to fill their tanks.

Kristi Noem played “Hot Mama” as the walk-up song for her formal introduction at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025. President Trump had put her in charge of his ...

In this way, prediction markets are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action ...

For example, at least six U.S. soldiers died, and others were wounded, in an Iranian strike Sunday on a command facility in Kuwait. CNN reported that the Americans received no warning of the incoming ...