Khamenei is dead. Regime change will be much harder.
President Donald Trump triumphantly announced on Saturday that Israeli and US strikes had killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
How Finland defeated fascism
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Trump’s war with Iran, briefly explained
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US strikes Iran: What you need to know
Early Saturday, the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran, marking the start of what appears to be...
What does “America First” even mean anymore?
With the decision to once again launch major airstrikes on Iran, in conjunction with Israel, and call for the overthrow...
Trump’s case for the Iran war makes no sense
Early Saturday, the United States launched an open-ended war on Iran. And nobody really knows why. For the past several...
Why India switched sides on Israel-Palestine — and why it matters
This past week, we got a vision of what the future of world politics might look like. And it wasn’t...
A new poll shows just how quickly Israel has lost America’s sympathy
For the first time, a Gallup survey found more Americans sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis in the long-running Middle East...
Meet the toymaker who helped take down Trump’s tariffs
Late last week, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed under the federal International Emergency Economic Powers...
Punch the monkey needs more than your love
Much like their human cousins, baby macaques crave comfort. Punch, a forlorn-looking young Japanese macaque monkey, went viral last week...
Does the US have enough aircraft carriers for all Trump’s wars?
As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force around the world....
How Democrats reorganized their State of the Union resistance
When President Donald Trump addressed Congress a year ago, the Democrats seemed to be, as the meme would have it,...
Can you fix a broken democracy without breaking it more?
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The massive energy crisis we’re not talking about enough
The world is hungrier than ever for energy. Key takeaways We don’t have a good grasp on how many people...
The most important line from Trump’s State of the Union
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was the longest ever given. But to understand its core purpose — arguably,...
