Articles & Videos

The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The 14-point agreement includes an immediate end to fighting on all fronts including Lebanon, an end to the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and the full resumption of maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. It also proposes easing oil sanctions on Iran, unfreezing Iranian assets and launching a $300 billion investment fund to rebuild Iran, all while tabling the question of Iran’s nuclear program, which is instead set to be negotiated over in the coming months. “The United States is more eager for this war to end than Iran is,” says professor Vali Nasr, who teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “In Iran, they’re very triumphant.” We discuss the long-term effects of the war, from the growing U.S. distrust of Israel, to the new generation of political leaders in the Islamic Republic, to the evolution of Iran into a major power player in an increasingly multipolar world.

The war on drugs is a politics of extermination.

If Manchester mayor Andy Burnham wins the vote, he will seek to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Israeli media condemned the deal Washington signed with Tehran as “a catastrophic capitulation.”

In April, the National Park Service placed a statue of Caesar Rodney, one of America’s Founding Fathers, in Freedom Plaza, a small park near the White House. That installation drew notice, and criticism, because Rodney, a plantation owner from Delaware who played a key role in crafting the Declaration of Independence, enslaved people—a complication that […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is coming to the defense of Elon Musk in a lawsuit over claims that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, is polluting residential neighborhoods in north Mississippi. The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal court late on Monday to throw out […]

The two countries remotely signed a memorandum of understanding that appeared to contravene Trump’s red lines.

Barack Obama's presidential library is the most expensive ever constructed, at least until Trump drops billions into his own.

The administration revealed the deal to end its illegal war, only for the president's incoherence and the vice president's perceived incompetence to dominate the day. Elsewhere, there's still no DNI.