A great deal of thought must have gone into designing, producing and marketing it. No doubt it was made in China, as everything is these days, but that does not alter the fact that it was, and is, an ...

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If only ending a war were as simple as marking a date in your calendar for the war to end. According to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump has done just that, and peace has been penciled in ...

The neoconservative Republican appears to be a greater advocate for Israel than he is for his own constituents.

Even excluding government effects, momentum eased. Business and consumer spending—minus trade, inventories, and government—rose 2.4 percent, the weakest since early 2025. For the year of 2025, GDP ...

For decades, Washington has sought to punish Iran for rejecting its political order. This has once again become apparent in recent weeks, with carrier groups steaming toward the Persian Gulf, Israel’s ...

From a realist perspective, a U.S. war with Iran seems not merely unnecessary, but obviously foolish. Realists believe that the U.S. should—and does—intervene abroad when necessary to prevent the rise ...

As Iran teeters either on the brink of a war with a vastly superior power or the risk of making a peace deal on extremely unfavorable terms, it is worth looking for comparison’s sake at the ...

But perhaps not. Jackson was a populist, even if he was a man of the left. He was in his own day and way trying to forge the multiracial working-class coalition that many populists on the right ...

After the end of the war in Ukraine, what would be the nature of a European order that included Russia instead of marginalizing it? What is the future for Europe in an increasingly multipolar world?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to the Munich Security Conference to introduce herself to the world as a foreign policy thinker. She returned having demonstrated something else entirely: that the ...

From the moment the hearing began on Wednesday morning, Bondi appeared rattled as she repeatedly attempted to pivot away from the very subject that required her presence in front of dozens of ...