What Trump wants and how he’ll use the midterms to keep it

Amid secret talks between Washington and Tehran, Israel has new demands on nuclear verification

The GOP aims to keep control of the Senate by disqualifying voters in Democratic precincts

In November and in the future

An expert on Iran says the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei led to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz

From the archives

Will Trump and Hegseth Give It a Chance to Work?

The businessman president’s lasting legacy might be plunging America into economic misery

An account from decades ago raises questions about his connections to Mossad and the FBI—but not the CIA

COGCON—a set of classified protocols for national emergencies to ensure the continuity of government—might be part of Trump’s secret plan to fend off the Democrats

How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre

Behind the scenes the vice president has been effective at restraining his boss—he might soon have his job

Ending the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank wasn’t on the agenda

With the Democratic establishment in disarray, Trump and his deputies plan to meddle with the election to keep Congress split

A shakeup in Kiev highlights Russia’s intransigency

Amid continued US strikes, new intelligence says Iran's partially enriched uranium has been compromised

The dissident had his 'Dr. Strangelove' moment on a 1959 visit to the hottest front of the Cold War

The memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran marks a historic rupture

Presidential Emergency Action Documents have a long history, but Trump's invocation of them on immigration betrays their original purpose

A White House insider says the president has floated the nuclear option

The Iran War could prove a decisive factor in the fall’s elections in Israel and the US

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are ruthless, but they are not irrational

Prosecutors are investigating officials from the Obama administration for their actions after the 2016 election and the ex-president may be in their crosshairs

A memoir by the son of an Israeli general who took up the Palestinian cause shows what might have been

Russia’s war in Ukraine has become mired in corruption and its leader now has had no role to play in the Middle East

Despite reports to the contrary, some in the Israeli leadership believe the president is considering paying off the Iranian government to open the Strait of Hormuz

The conflict's transformation into a drone war has turned the tide

A report on the human rights situation in Gaza

A mission to take the remaining partially enriched uranium from Iran's nuclear sites could put an end to the war

Trump has escalated the war against Iran, heedless of the lessons of the past

What Trump didn't know he didn't know about the war he started

The specter of a nuclear Iran, no matter how unreal, provided the rationale for the current slaughter

There is no glory in unopposed air wars

Trump's loose lips may be undermining the war against Iran he and Netanyahu started

Waiting for war on the other side of the Atlantic

Further attacks and regime change are on the table

The ICE raids in Minnesota have brought about a conflict not envisioned by the Constitution

The question hinges on Trump and the Iranian army

Backlash against Trump’s strong-arm tactics on immigration could hand Congress to the Democrats

Russia’s war against Ukraine has now lasted longer than its war with Nazi Germany, and its economy is suffering the consequences

An eyewitness account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza

His recent actions have their roots in Dick Cheney’s plans for the post-Cold War world

The evidence of 2025 suggests a president who is alternately reckless and bored

From the archives: Grappling with the massacre on its thirtieth anniversary

Recent negotiations offer glimmers of hope

American experts think the regime in Tehran is teetering while Israelis believe it’s rebuilding its defenses—another confrontation is looming

On Joshua Colangelo-Bryan’s ‘Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantánamo Bay’

And coming soon to Netflix

A conversation with Thomas Frank

On Erwin Chemerinsky’s ‘No Democracy Lasts Forever’