Politics
What really matters in the world of politics, campaigns, ideology, and more.


The ingredient that feeds the planet’s crops just got stuck in war.


Revealed in one chart.


Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.


It was a US strike that killed nearly 200 children on the first day of the Iran war, an investigation finds.


How long can Iran keep shooting missiles? How long can everyone else keep shooting them down?


Even if the Iran war ends tomorrow, high energy prices will persist.


The Trump administration doesn’t know when this is going to end either.


It won’t stop at the gas pump.


An Iranian Kurdish leader says his people are ready to rise up, but need more US support.


After Venezuela and Iran, Trump has a new target on his mind.


RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.


Having a nuclear weapon has never looked more appealing.


Jobs numbers down, gas prices up.


Trump shows his Homeland Security secretary the door.


The rise and fall of the “axis of resistance.”


The economic shock from Trump’s war may only be getting started.


Are Claude and ChatGPT helping the US fight a war?


Democrats chose expanding the tent over doubling down on the base.


No lawyer has done more in the last decade to advance a distinctly MAGA approach to the Constitution than Ken Paxton.


Four days in, Trump’s Iran explanations aren’t getting any clearer.

The Court’s latest ruling invokes a power that corrupts every court that wields it.


Can Trump bomb his way to regime change in Iran?




The US said we can’t afford to let a surveillance state like China win the AI race. Well...


Trump says the war will protect Americans. Critics see new risks.


Democrats want fighters. A Texas Senate candidate is focused on faith.


The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could usher in a new age of assassination.


What we know about the civilian death toll in the Middle East, briefly explained.


Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs.


Why Rep. Ro Khanna isn’t done talking about the Epstein files.


How Trump might finally be breaking the manosphere.


How the war in Iran could cause an economic crisis.


The US can’t just bomb its way to a new government.
What the defeat of the Lapua Movement in the 1940s can teach the US today.


The US struck multiple Iranian cities early on Saturday morning.









