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April 9, 2026
We have no idea if Iran can still build a bomb
The focus of the US-Iran war — and now the negotiations over the US-Iran ceasefire — has shifted to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, to such an extent that the main original justification fo...
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April 8, 2026
From threatening a civilization to ceasefire: What we learned from a wild day in the Iran war
President Donald Trump’s fast pivot on Iran — from “a whole civilization will die tonight” to a benign return to negotiations — has a whipsawed world scratching their heads. What was he up to? One ...
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April 6, 2026
Why Trump’s latest threat against Iran could be a war crime
For someone who claims to be unconcerned about the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump seems increasingly desperate to open it. In a Truth Social post over the weekend that was extreme even b...
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April 2, 2026
What happened when they installed ChatGPT on a nuclear supercomputer
If there’s anything that makes people more uncomfortable than highly advanced AI or nuclear weapons technology, it’s the combination of the two. But there’s been a symbiotic relationship between cu...
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April 2, 2026
Is this the beginning of the end of the war in Iran?
The Iran war of 2026 will continue, but it appears to be entering its final phase. Or at least, that’s what President Donald Trump hopes. Claiming that the “hard part is done,” Trump made the case ...
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March 26, 2026
Trump says the Iran war is over. So why won’t he end it?
One way or another, President Donald Trump would like you to believe the war in Iran is wrapping up soon. Trump said this week that he is “very intent on making a deal” and that his team has had g...
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March 20, 2026
Why the US wants to protect Iran’s oil and gas
The Trump administration’s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words like “lethality” and “obliteration,” so it was notable that the president seemed almost apologetic on Wednesday, wh...
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March 20, 2026
Here’s how Iran could become a “forever war”
The Trump administration’s end goals for the war in Iran, never particularly well-defined to begin with, appear to be narrowing. While President Donald Trump once spoke ambitiously about regime ch...
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March 17, 2026
The Iran war already has a winner
There are already clear losers from the war in Iran: The battered Iranian regime itself, the civilians under heavy bombardment in Iran and Lebanon, the Gulf countries’ whose reputation as a stable ...
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March 11, 2026
The world doesn’t have enough ammo for the Iran War
President Donald Trump has suggested that the US-Israeli air campaign in Iran will continue until “they cry uncle, or when they can’t fight any longer.” Iran’s foreign minister has said their own m...
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March 9, 2026
Trump might want “boots on the ground” in Iran. Just not American ones.
Last week, President Donald Trump spoke with Iraqi and Iranian Kurdish leaders, reportedly offering “extensive US aircover” and logistical support for armed groups to cross the border from Iraq int...
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March 9, 2026
The dangerous lesson countries may take from the Iran war
The landmark speech given by French President Emmanuel Macron this week — with a nuclear submarine serving as a dramatic backdrop — announcing the expansion of France’s nuclear arsenal, didn’t get ...
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March 4, 2026
Iran had a plan to fight Israel and the US. It all collapsed after October 7.
This is not how it was supposed to go for Iran. For years, the Islamic Republic worked to build up a network of allies throughout the Middle East, widely known as the “Axis of Resistance,” which, ...
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March 2, 2026
World leaders are almost never killed in war. Why did it happen to Iran’s supreme leader?
The Israeli bombing that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday not only brought the demise of one of the central global political figures of the last half century, it al...
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March 1, 2026
How Khamenei transformed Iran
In the weeks leading up to the latest US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran, there were reports that President Donald Trump’s administration was considering targeting Iran’s senior leadership, includi...
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February 28, 2026
What does “America First” even mean anymore?
With the decision to once again launch major airstrikes on Iran, in conjunction with Israel, and call for the overthrow of the Iranian government, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has come f...
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February 28, 2026
Why did the US strike Iran?
President Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning that the US and Israel had launched an attack on Iran, saying the goal was to eliminate an “imminent threat” from Iran, “raze their missile i...
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February 27, 2026
The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight
President Donald Trump ordered the entire federal government to stop using products from the AI company Anthropic on Friday to stop what he called a “radical left, woke company” from encroaching on...
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February 27, 2026
A new poll shows just how quickly Israel has lost America’s sympathy
For the first time, a Gallup survey found more Americans sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis in the long-running Middle East conflict, a watershed moment in relations between the US and one ...
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February 26, 2026
Does the US have enough aircraft carriers for all Trump’s wars?
As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force around the world. But even with a military as large and technologically ad...
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February 20, 2026
The Supreme Court just blew up Trump’s foreign policy
President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy so far has been to speak loudly and carry a big stick. On Friday, the Supreme Court took away his favorite stick. From Cuba, to China, to Greenla...
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February 19, 2026
It really looks like we’re about to bomb Iran again
The US military is in the midst of its largest build-up of forces in the Middle East in decades, in preparation for some sort of military action in Iran. Military officials say strikes could come a...
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February 13, 2026
Trump’s biggest war is one he almost never talks about
On February 3, President Donald Trump posted a Fox News article about a US strike targeting ISIS leaders in Somalia, along with an inflammatory insult aimed at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who arrived...
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February 11, 2026
What we know about the mysterious closure and reopening of the El Paso airport
The El Paso International Airport will apparently not be closed for 10 days, despite an earlier announcement that set off an overnight panic. But the reasons why the closure was announced in the fi...
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February 10, 2026
The Epstein files might bring down a government. Just not the US government.
The questions about the exact nature of Donald Trump’s relationship with the late financier and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein that have dogged his presidency in both terms were given fresh life l...
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February 3, 2026
Is a new US-Russia arms race about to begin?
Barring a major unforeseen announcement from Washington or Moscow, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia will expire on Wednesday. It’s been a long, sl...
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January 27, 2026
China is purging its military leaders. Is this a step toward war?
In recent years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been systematically purging his country’s senior military leaders, part of an overall campaign that has meted out punishment to some 200,000 officials...
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January 25, 2026
The world just passed a surprisingly positive milestone on nuclear weapons
The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace an...
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January 21, 2026
The week Europe fought back
The great Greenland war of 2026 appears to be on hold for the moment. This week’s World Economic Forum in Davos has been largely overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s demand that the US take co...
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January 16, 2026
Trump is waffling on Iran strikes. Here are four possible reasons why.
Is help really “on its way” for Iran’s protesters? That’s what President Donald Trump promised in a Truth Social post earlier this week, adding that “Iranians Patriots” should “KEEP PROTESTING – TA...
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