President Donald Trump attends a transfer of remains service at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on March 7, 2026. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times). By THE EDITORIAL BOARD On paper, the war in Iran should not be much of a contest. The United States spends around $1 trillion a year on its military, more than 100 times as much as Iran. That money buys a vastly larger Air Force and Navy, as well as advanced weapons technologies that Iranian generals can only dream about. In

Ukrainian soldiers train in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine, April 7, 2026. President Trump’s “policy toward Ukraine looks like everything his Iran policy is not: an effective rebalancing for a multipolar world, in which a major rival has been contained and weakened with a reduced American commitment ...,” Times columnist Ross Douthat writes. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT One of the many ironies of Donald Trump’s war against Iran is that only a ye

President Donald Trump walks King Charles III to his vehicle after a visit to the White House in Washington, April 28, 2026. Anyone familiar with the causes Charles championed as Prince of Wales could infer his ideological differences with Trump. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times) By MAUREEN DOWD The last time Charles came here for a state visit, nobody seemed to notice. I saw him up close during his trip in the autumn of 1985, from his stop at JCPenney in a suburban mall

Artificial Intelligence will drastically increase the power of small states and groups in conflict with the great powers. (Evan Hume/The New York Times) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN President Donald Trump often falls back on poker metaphors. He told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine that he had “no cards” when it came to standing up to Russia. Trump told Iran’s leaders that they had “no cards” when it came to standing up to him. Would somebody please tell me when it’s poker

Stairs outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, April 9, 2026. “The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday on the Voting Rights Act is a mind-boggling piece of judicial overreach,” writes The New York Times’ Editorial Board. (Damon Winter/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Supreme Court’s decision last Wednesday on the Voting Rights Act is a mind-boggling piece of judicial overreach. Six conservative justices voted to weaken the act, in that way substituting t

Doses of measles vaccine are prepared at a public health fair at The University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, S.C., on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. Neighboring Spartanburg County is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. (Kaoly Gutierrez/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The resurgence of measles — a terrible disease that can swell the brain and cause permanent disabilities or death — is alarming enough on its own. There have been

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), second from left, is escorted to a safe room after gunfire at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on Saturday, April 25, 2026. Scalise was shot at a congressional baseball game practice in 2017. (Salwan Georges/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS President Donald Trump erupted in anger at CBS journalist Norah O’Donnell after she read him excerpts from what is said to be a m

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2026. (Aleksey Kondratyev/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG Cole Tomas Allen, who was arrested during an attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday, may be America’s first normie liberal terrorist. The right, naturally, sees Allen as part of a pattern, lumping him in with figures like Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired on Donald Trump in 2024, grazing his ear; Ryan Wesley Routh, who carried a semi

Soldiers from Ukraine’s 148th Artillery Brigade in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2025. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By DAVID FRENCH A remarkable thing has happened on the world’s battlefields. Ukraine — a nation that was supposed to dissolve within days of a Russian invasion — has fought Russia to a stalemate, revolutionizing land warfare in the process. It has become an indispensable security partner in the Western alliance, including in the war ag

Elon Musk is interviewed at the 2023 New York Times DealBook Summit, in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 2023. The prominence of the SAVE America Act, a bill that would impose identification requirements for voter registration nationwide, owes a great debt to Musk. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times) By ROSS DOUTHAT This week’s action in the Senate yielded a predictable setback for the SAVE America Act, a bill that would impose identification requirements for voter registration nationwide. Co