Iran has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, blocking much of the world’s oil supply. The war has now become a race to stabilize the global economic order, Sudarsan Raghavan writes.

After President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling.

On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.

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It echoes another era of extreme inequality and extreme violence.

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The vendor who sold the banana only received a quarter for the fruit. Now the buyer of the conceptual work has offered his fruit stand a bigger payday.

Pete Hegseth considers himself to be at war with basically everybody to Trump’s left, and it is by no means clear that he means war metaphorically.