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The rumble in the jungle: is Washington punching itself out?

Ron MacCammon · April 26, 2026 6:00 am

The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz.

A US victory in Iran is what Democrats fear most

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Earth Day and the failure of apocalyptic environmentalism

US President Donald Trump mimics firing a gun as he speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)

The price of appeasement: $20 billion won’t buy peace with Iran

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf.

Our Navy was built for this moment in the Strait of Hormuz

An American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Congress unites against Chinese atrocities

Anne Lord March 28, 2023 10:47 am

Is the new banking crisis really capitalism’s fault?

Rainer Zitelmann March 27, 2023 1:20 pm

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order to improve government services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington. Bidenâs long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office. He achieved it, albeit at 78 the oldest person to assume the presidency.

Biden administration splurges on ‘climate crisis’ training for embattled youth activists

Gabe Kaminsky March 27, 2023 12:39 pm

FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, people walk by the Sony Building at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Sony shareholders voted Thursday, June 19 to keep Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai and other top executives after heckling them about the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's continuing losses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Is Sony the next TikTok?

Paul Boardman March 27, 2023 6:00 am

The Taliban escalate their brutal hunt for American allies

Beth Bailey March 26, 2023 6:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Trump’s latest gift to Biden

Ian Haworth March 24, 2023 1:04 pm

Ban TikTok — now

Kaylee McGhee White March 24, 2023 9:47 am

What Florida’s higher education bill gets right

Max Eden March 23, 2023 8:52 am

TikTok data trackers installed on state government websites, review finds

Christopher Hutton March 21, 2023 12:15 pm

Biden administration limits China investments by semiconductor chip subsidy recipients

Christopher Hutton March 21, 2023 10:27 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Head of the Jewish autonomous region Alexander Vinnikov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin’s imperial ambitions are a threat to the American-led world order

Michael Lucchese March 21, 2023 6:00 am

Andy Lack, Ronan Farrow, Chris Hayes.

Manchin blasts Biden over ESG rule veto

Breanne Deppisch March 20, 2023 2:33 pm