The lopsided encounter embodies the American and Israeli campaign as a whole. At the political level, American officials have ...

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E ver since turning communist, China has set top-down targets for its economy. Mao Zedong wanted to double steel output in a ...

Should AI labs unquestioningly obey the Pentagon? Donald Trump’s administration seems to think so. Last week it banned ...

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The record of Mr Theodore Roosevelt, who under the Constitution becomes President until March, 1905, as politician, as soldier in the Spanish War, and as Governor of New York, is acknowledged to be ...

Ken Paxton, Texas’s populist attorney-general, and John Cornyn, the four-term incumbent, advanced to a run-off on May 26th to ...

A MERICANS HAVE been arguing about immigration since the country’s founding. In his first message to Congress as president in ...

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...

Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University.

After America and Israel struck at the heart of the mullahs’ regime on February 28th, killing its supreme leader, what remains of the regime is desperate. And both aspects of the nightmare scenario ...

In these uncertain first days, an early winner stands out, though: Israel. The Iran campaign relies on American firepower. But to a striking degree, it is shaped by Israeli theories of war. Israel’s ...