“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.

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 ...

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?

It also left the Democrats confronting a potentially era-defining defeat. But here we are in 2026: President Trump is deeply unpopular and Democrats are leading in the midterm polls. Still, I want to ...

I spent the first hour of my day, reading story after story essentially saying that Donald Trump “miscalculated” in his ...

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

The sinister media soft-soaping of Saturday’s ISIS bomb attack on the Upper East Side shows exactly whose side these corrupted news organizations are on — and it’s not yours.

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

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

As we celebrate the NCAA tournament, we must remember that the most successful season is the one in which every New Yorker plays within their means.

While the public has historically backed military intervention initially in international conflicts, deep polarization has ...