History has a consistent grade on holy wars and it is not one any serious military strategist would choose voluntarily. They do not end. That is the defining feature. Conflicts framed as divine mandate do not resolve through negotiation, strategic withdrawal, or the kind of

A federal judge in Missouri has (again!) declined to block SAVE from going into effect. Eligible borrowers currently have a right to cancellation and affordable payments under SAVE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

A very special young foreign correspondent won a huge award tonight. Yousra Elbagir of Sky News has won RTS Awards Journalist of the Year. You would understand why if you watched her coverage of Sudan.

"Closest to the child" is a compelling phrase. It is also doing a lot of work that deserves scrutiny before it becomes policy architecture. Here is what closest to the child looks like in practice when the federal floor disappears. A child with a learning disability in a

The shifting justifications are doing their own kind of work here and the pattern deserves to be named directly. The decision to launch sustained strikes on Iran preceded the public rationale. The rationale has changed multiple times since. Protecting Israel. Instinct. Now the

Tuesday’s primaries exposed vulnerabilities that are expected to plague incumbent lawmakers in both parties through this year’s primary elections. For Democrats, the old guard faces younger candidates; for Republicans, trouble may arise without a Trump endorsement.

Nine hundred twenty-six Iranians have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes since Saturday, Iran’s Health Ministry said, adding that one hundred eighty of the dead were under 18 and thirteen percent were women and girls. Follow live updates: wapo.st/4csTHAV

The civic compact between a free people and the military that serves them rests on one fundamental promise: the sacrifices will not be hidden or minimized for political convenience. Hegseth broke that promise in a single statement. Reducing coverage of U.S. troop deaths to

Before 1913, America did not have a Federal Reserve. It had panics. 1873. 1893. 1907. Each one a wave that started in financial markets and ended on family farms, in shuttered small businesses, in savings accounts that went to zero before the depositor understood what was

Joyce Alene Everyone worries about voting machines being hacked and other clandestine schemes. But we in Texas know what voter suppression really looks like. Inconveniences - big and small - that demoralize and demotivate just enough voters to keep GOP in power. All done in broad daylight

🔺 EXPLAINED: What weapons does Iran have and how long can it attack Israel? thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

"Imagine, for a moment, being a parent who sent your child to that girls’ school that got bombed in Iran. Can you?" substack.com/home/post/p-18…

Consumers and businesses in Asia and Europe may face steeply higher energy costs after an Iranian drone struck Qatar’s largest gas liquefaction plant. wapo.st/4b7RcBN

#Voting is a right, not a privilege. Make sure that what just happened in Texas on March 4th does NOT happen again anywhere, in any state. #VoterSuppression #MakeAPlanToVote #midterms2026

The Iris Dena was targeted in a dawn raid while returning from a naval exercise in the Indian Ocean, killing at least 87 sailors thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

One of Trump’s most heinous appointees is out. Her last days were fitting. slate.trib.al/aSzXrWP

Texas prosecutors are arguing that an ICE facility protest was actually a left-wing terrorist plot. The first-ever trial against an alleged ‘antifa cell’ could be a playbook for cracking down on Trump administration critics. More here: wapo.st/4uurKPZ

The House rejected a bipartisan measure intended to halt further military action in Iran in a show of acquiescence to the Trump administration’s decision to launch strikes without Congress's approval. Correction: a previous post contained the wrong link. wapo.st/3MMmHcF

A 10-year-old dog named Rocky was rescued and reunited with his owner after surviving 43 days alone in Summit County, Colorado.

A House member argued this week that congressional debate on the Iran war is pointless because the president already started it. Sit with the logic for a moment. The constitutional check on executive war-making is nullified the instant the executive acts. Which means the check