In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

The United States and Israel have been conducting airstrikes on Iran for a week and a half. Stephen Stromberg, an editor in ...

The war in Iran is setting off a global economic shock wave. In this episode, the Opinion editor Steve Stromberg speaks with ...

America is drowning in debt. It has expanded over years and even decades, but President Trump and his allies in Congress have piled on a giant new load. In fiscal year 2025, the United States spent ...

It seems that President Trump’s aims in joining the air war against Iran are beginning to rub against the long-term ...

Ms. Zonszein is a contributing writer at Opinion. Benjamin Netanyahu has spent much of his political life trying to make war with Iran seem not only inevitable but overdue. Thus, for the Israeli prime ...

From the whirlwind start of the second Trump administration through the war in Iran, Americans have been put to a very difficult task: How are they to make sense of this cascade of events? Last fall, ...

In 1848, at the close of the Mexican-American War, a first-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote: Those words were ...

On a typical day, they greet farmers bringing them ticks, real estate agents with mysterious roaches and anxious homeowners ...

The old U.S.-led order is dead. The new one feels unstable and ominous, as if a storm could descend at any moment.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the Paul Thomas Anderson movie “One Battle After Another” by the daughter of two Weatherman. Also: Will we be around to unearth a time capsule?

Readers respond to Daryl Hannah’s guest essay about a TV series’ portrayal of her. Also: Remembering a visit to Iran; an ...