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President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he's fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader.

As Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem was obsessed with cameras, and her downfall began when ICE abuses, including the killing of two American citizens, went viral.

The regime in Tehran knows it likely can't win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict--even if it's ultimately at its own expense.

As the region spasms, the clash between Israel and Hezbollah is gathering force.

Past conflicts eroded Congress's ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump's attack on Iran destroyed it.

The new mayor's plans require funding. How will he get it?

The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.

Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East.

In Tuesday night's twin primaries for the U.S. Senate in Texas, each party was navigating a balance between its current iteration and what may replace it--"in one case, delicately, and in the other, not so much," Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.