A two-week ceasefire in the Iran War entered its sixth day Monday as President Donald Trump moved to impose a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after weekend peace talks in Islamabad failed ...

Listen to the Trump administration’s assessments of the war in Iran, and you could be forgiven for believing that Washington’s biggest adversary in the Middle East was at death’s door. When he’s not ...

In the months and years to come, thousands of articles and dozens of books will be written about Trump’s Iranian farce. It is ...

The German social philosopher Jürgen Habemas, who AI assures us is “one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries,” died in Starnberg in southern Germany on March 14, 2026, at ...

Introducing the May/June 2026 issue of The American Conservative.

West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East, by Mohammad Soliman. Polity Books, 272 pages.

Nor does Jael sit on her hands in fear, like a flattened vision of housewifery on offer by some who use the tradwife label online. Jael’s measured attack, using her ordinary household tool, against an ...

George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing.

Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suspended his campaign for California governor on Sunday after sexual assault and misconduct allegations triggered a rapid political collapse that has upended the race to lead the ...