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May 28, 2025

Trump Finds Laughable New Way to Beg Canada to Join the U.S.

Donald Trump has made his most idiotic pitch yet.

May 25, 2025

Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer

For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

May 20, 2025

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Fumbles Key Question as He Unveils Pricey Golden Dome Plans

Donald Trump has long bragged about the expensive military defense project.

April 17, 2025

Elon Musk Wants to Own Trump’s Pet Defense Project

Musk continues to try to buy pieces of the government.

November 18, 2019

Trump Makes Japan an Offer It Can’t Refuse

The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.

October 4, 2019

The Coveted, Overpriced Missile at the Heart of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal

How the president took his predecessors’ gun-running tradition to dirty new depths.

August 21, 2019

The Absurd Strategy Behind Russia’s Nuclear Explosion

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.

April 7, 2017

The New York Times is putting a heartfelt spin on Trump’s bombing of Syria.