President Trump is pressing Iran toward the negotiating table — or, if Tehran refuses, toward consequences his administration has described in terms of unusual severity. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the president is prepared to strike Iran harder than it has ever been struck if its government fails to accept that
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Something significant may be happening. On Tuesday, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran has agreed to never acquire nuclear weapons — the demand that has sat at the
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
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
