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Zohran Mamdani and Mayor Eric Adams earning only 10 percent and 8 percent, respectively. “My political journey begins with ...

The Trump administration faces a fateful decision over whether to intervene in an offensive capacity in Iran. The long-term potential consequences of intervention are profound and far-reaching, but ...

This article, which discusses possible consequences of a U.S.–Iran war, was written prior to American bombings of Iran Saturday night. One u ...

The U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening in a post on Truth Social: ...

While preparations for a potential strike are being made, President Donald Trump has not yet made the decision to join Israel’s war against the Islamic Republic. Trump said that he is waiting to see ...

Though Trump has not yet submitted nominations for many of these Middle Eastern positions, this falls on the Senate’s shoulders, not the president’s. While the Senate worked in haste to confirm the ...

With the Israeli attack on Iran still unfolding as of the time of this writing, there are many questions. Was the United States planning for this all along, treating the negotiations as a distraction ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump sounded ready to make a clean break with his party’s most reflexive hawks in the first big speech he has ...

Iran’s foreign minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, was a teenager when Saddam Hussein invaded his country. The Iran–Iraq War began with airstrikes in September 1980. Saddam believed that Iran was ...

The Libyan disaster shows what the West gets out of regime change: more migrants flooding into our countries. It’s a factor no one beating the war drum considers. It’s assumed that the new Iranian ...

Dick Cheney is to George W. Bush as Netanyahu could soon be to Trump: The “America First” president is being led on a string ...