There is a particular moment when a leader must address not only the enemy abroad but also the rumors gathering at home. Benjamin Netanyahu stepped before the cameras Thursday evening to do both. He had been the subject of online speculation about his health and safety — the kind of digital fog that now accompanies
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There is a phrase that has always defined the American character in crisis: improvise and adapt. The Jones Act, passed in 1920, was not designed for a world in which the Strait
There is a particular quality to a presidential ultimatum delivered in capital letters on a social media platform in the early hours. It is not the language of persuasion. It is the
There is a darkness settling over Cuba that is no longer metaphorical. On Monday, the island’s electrical grid failed completely — a “total disconnection,” in the clinical language of the Ministry of
There is something almost classical about what Washington did Friday. An act of statecraft that is also, in its way, a statement of belief. The State Department announced it will pay up
