First, with lies and bombs. Then, with a request for hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars. Will Congress cave to the White House yet again?

All four former presidents are against this war.

A decade ago, Trump promised an end to military interventions like the disaster in Iraq. Instead, he’s merely reinventing them.

MAGA-heads scoff at liberals: Isn’t it great to see those overjoyed Iranians? Um, yes, but history, alas, warns us sternly against premature celebrations.

Bush praised virtues from “self-control and courteousness to modesty and diplomacy,” in an essay about George Washington that was also clearly a message about the current occupant of the White House.

The United States used to believe foreign wars should promote democracy. Not anymore.

Um, what?

The 2000s called, they want their excuse to start a war back.

John Yoo says the Trump administration is going too far.

The former vice president, who said he had no regrets about the Iraq War or the CIA’s horrific torture program, has passed away.

For decades, Democrats have abided by norms Republicans systematically discarded. They have no choice now but to fight back with all the resources they can marshal.

Two decades of foreign policy failure have led us to the brink of another catastrophic war in the Middle East.

The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

You know the GOP’s budget mess is getting desperate when a top economic aide says tax cuts increase revenue.

Prosperity is overrated, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Nostalgia is a powerful political motivator for young people. But they may be yearning for an era that never existed.

Yes, there was a political backlash to leaders around the world in 2024. But this has been true in the U.S. for many election cycles—and may last for many more.

Jon Tester, Sherrod Brown, and Bob Casey all joined the Senate in a blue-wave backlash to George W. Bush in 2006. Eighteen years later, they lost their seats in a Trump wave.

Do we love Cheney? Of course not. But that’s hardly the point. The point is, can she move votes?

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.