There is a war in the Middle East, and it is three weeks old. On Monday, President Trump announced a pause — five days, no strikes on Iranian power plants or energy infrastructure — contingent, he said, on the progress of ongoing negotiations. “I am pleased to report,” the President wrote, “that the United States
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Nine percent. That is what Kamala Harris draws as a first-choice presidential candidate in her own home state, according to a new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies. In
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
