Even with a nearly $1 trillion budget, the U.S. military can only do so much. Pentagon officials are privately warning...

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If the story of journalism’s 21st-century decline were purely a tale of technological disruption—of print dinosaurs failing to adapt to...

When the government stomps on some once-inviolable right, it may be carrying out the next step in a concerted plan,...

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Donald Trump has a lot of odd fixations, both as a person and as a president. He tends to focus...

Greenland is 836,000 square miles, more than five times the size of California, and it’s mostly ice. President Trump has...

Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Yet the public...

On Friday, Russia attacked Lviv, a major Ukrainian city near the Polish border, using Oreshnik: an intermediate-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile....

The protests in Iran are real. The country’s economic desperation runs deep, and millions of citizens want to see a...

In early December, as U.S. forces prepared for a possible attack on Venezuela, a Chinese navy ship sailed near the...

In the early 1990s, when Stefan Merrill Block was in fourth grade, he began complaining to his mom about his...

In the days after American commandos raided Nicolás Maduro’s compound and whisked him out of Venezuela, Mike Lindell wasn’t ruminating...

Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot? For more than a week, beginning late last month,...

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