Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that ...

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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, ...

“It is worse than a crime; it is a blunder.” Thus was the response of a prominent French politician to the news that Napoleon had executed an enemy duke in 1804.

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 ...

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What do you think middle-class American life should look like? What should it feel like? How does that differ from how you’re feeling right now? Is it possible for you to achieve?

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 ...

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