On February 28, the US and Israel launched an unprovoked attack on Iran, killing its Supreme Leader alongside many other officials—and around 160 civilians, mostly schoolgirls, at Minab. The attack was an extreme case of the supreme war crime: aggression. Attacks on civilian targets are, of course, also highly illegal. The US and Israel routinely...

As partisanship increases, Americans continue to separate into two distinct peoples. And the root of the differences is not ideology but race. At the same time, elections continue to be determined by who can deliver material rewards to their constituents. Nationalists who want to reforge the American people can’t just talk about the culture war,...

On Monday, while Donald Trump was publicly pondering whether to “make a deal” with Iran or “finish them off,” something happened in Tehran that should have set off alarms in every office of the State Department, assuming anyone is still left there to hear them. Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, the brother...

Humanity has the freedom to fail this test and go the way of the dinosaur. We’re allowed to take that path if that’s what we collectively choose to do. We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers to drive our species to extinction via climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, or AI apocalypse if...

The United States should temper its expectations as to what it can achieve in Central Asia. The October 19 C5+1 summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan advanced the diplomatic framework for US-Central Asian cooperation. Trade, critical minerals, transport links,...