The best-planned defenses don’t count for much if the people you trust to run them are ready to sell you out.
W hen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at Mar-a-Lago in late December, he had a surprise message for ...
“On the eve of each war at least one of the nations miscalculated its bargaining power,” wrote the historian Geoffrey Blainey ...
Countries such as Saudi Arabia once wondered whether Tehran could be appeased and contained. Now they do not.
Donald Trump’s plans to oust the Iranian regime, which led to the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made some of his advisers ...
The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without even an attempt to build ...
American diplomats are supposed to represent the nation, advocate for the interests and policies of the U.S. government, and ...
Opinion

Trump Rolls the Iron Dice

The uncertainties of Trump’s attack on Iran are enough to justify some queasy doubts.
It is a war for regime change. Many of Iran’s 92 million people want the regime removed. But it is far from certain that this ...
The rulers of Iran have committed outrage after outrage against the rest of the world and their own people. They sought nuclear weapons to commit a second Holocaust against Israel, as they repeatedly ...
Opinion

Harsha Thirumurthy

Harsha Thirumurthy is an economist and a professor of health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at Penn and a ...
In the U.S., by contrast, a few hundred dollars a month for a relatively short period of time, typical of guaranteed-income pilots, rarely matches the steep costs of housing, child care, and health ...