There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

Pete Hegseth swaggered to the podium to declare total triumph, but the loose threads, missing uranium, a downed F-15, and a ceasefire already wobbling tell a murkier story.

Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite

Trump’s apocalyptic Iran rhetoric, MAGA’s authoritarian machinery, and the growing sense at home and abroad that America is being governed by a dangerous man in obvious decline.

No one can diagnose a president from a press conference, but when learned experts, foreign observers, and the president’s own behavior all point in the same frightening direction...