Wars rarely begin when the missiles launch. They begin years earlier, sometimes decades earlier, in ideology, threats, and actions that slowly accumulate until a response becomes unavoidable. For the United States and Iran, that timeline stretches back nearly half a...

For most of the twentieth century, the argument between capitalism and socialism existed largely in textbooks and foreign policy speeches. Americans watched it play out in Europe, in the Soviet bloc, and in the Cold War’s ideological theater. Today, that argument has...

Nearly a decade after the first tremors of what became known as “Russiagate,” the story refuses to disappear. It lingers in Washington like unfinished business — a political scandal whose documentation has grown steadily thicker while accountability has remained...

Politics often reduces complex policy debates into a few fundamental questions. One of those questions surfaced recently in both rhetoric and polling: What is the primary duty of the American government? When voters were presented with the statement, “The first duty...