Taverns and inns were more than a place to tip a pint: In Revolutionary America, they were a center of civic life.

Trump and Witkoff should be able to understand Iran by simply reading about the life of American peace activist Rachel Corrie ...

President Trump has blasted reports claiming his top general, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, advised him to abandon plans for an Iranian military campaign.

It’s a far less promising military gambit than Venezuela, but Trump today is more desperate for a distraction.

Iran has accelerated political and military preparations in anticipation of a potential US attack, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordering contingency plans to safeguard the country’s survival ...

Frank Dikotter, Dutch by origin, is a scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has the good fortune to live in Palo Alto. It is there that he wrote this fifth book in his series on the ...

The United States has two tracks open on Iran right now, and only one of them ends without war. The question this week is which one closes first. President Donald Trump issued a 10- to 15-day ...

There is mayhem in Mexico after the killing of drug cartel chief El Mencho, which shows the immense power organised crime has ...

In its confrontation with Tehran, Washington faces a fundamental choice: should it seek to change the Iranian regime itself, or focus on altering the regime’s behavior while preserving regional ...

America has built up a huge military presence in the Middle East—the biggest overseas in over two decades ...

The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to people assigned female at birth. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive ...

The top negotiators plan to meet in Geneva on Thursday for last-ditch talks, debating a new proposal that could create an off ...