Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last week, in a prime-time speech that was confused and discursive even by his own ...

It’s not their war. But it’s becoming their political and economic nightmare. World leaders who opposed the US-Israeli attack on Iran are being torn between Donald Trump’s ire at their failure to join ...

The best hope for ending a poorly planned war, which started with scant consultation with Congress or the American people, may be an unsatisfactory peace that leaves critical issues to be resolved ...

Three storylines are gripping American political life simultaneously in 2026, each volatile on its own. One involves a dead convicted sex offender and millions of pages of government documents that ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. From the courts and the firing of his attorney general to tariffs, gas prices and the war in Iran, this week highlighted multiple stressors ...

A man stands amid the debris of a destroyed building at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, April 4, 2026, amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Credit: OSV News photo/Majid Asgaripour, WANA ...

When President Trump and G.O.P. leaders denounced the pope’s comments about the U.S. attack on Iran, they touched off a religious debate over what is and isn’t a “just war.” By Elizabeth Dias ...