After a gunman shot two National Guard soldiers near the White House, speculation swiftly outpaced the available facts.

The defense secretary’s decision to overrule a plea deal for 9/11 defendants only extends a long-running farce.

Asking the country to trust him is no longer a credible option. He should release the delegates and run in an open convention.

In the north, Israelis are not just resigned to the opening of a war with Hezbollah but in some cases annoyed that committing to one is taking so long.

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it.

Conor Clarke is an associate law professor at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2017 to 2023, he was an attorney at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. The Supreme Court precedent ...

Edward Tenner is a historian of technology and culture, and an affiliate of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He was a founding adviser of Smithsonian’s ...