A short while later, on June 5, the Israeli government, believing the sincerity of these threats, launched a preemptive ...

“Ours is just one idea,” one person involved in conversations told me. “Tehran is now full of such plots. They are also ...

In my conversations with experts, five potential Iranian moves kept surfacing. Iran could take a big step and use its ...

Among President Donald Trump’s lizard-brain intuitions is that Americans are overwhelmed by choice. This exhaustion is a strangely underexplored reason for his appeal; it may even help explain why his ...

At an Oval Office press conference last month, Donald Trump described present-day South Africa as “the opposite of apartheid” ...

The populists and the tech right competed to supply the GOP’s new policy. The president has picked the least-attractive ideas ...

Now, Trump has gone all in. His decision this week to drop more than a dozen of the largest conventional bombs in the U.S.

Recall the last time that the United States began a war this consequential: George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Prior to ...

President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His ...

The United States and Iran were not at war, and American forces in the Middle East were not all on high alert for reprisals.

At night, I dream of the rising screech of sirens across Jerusalem, of running to a bomb shelter, of thinking wildly about my ...

The U.S. strikes on Iran might have been necessary, but the manner in which Trump acted should raise alarms about what lies ...