Trump Is on a Real Losing Streak The president had a very bad weekend.

Trump's very bad weekend (in Hungary, Islamabad, London, and here at home too). slate.com/news-and-pol...

Someone should tell Trump what NATO is for. See Article 6: It's explicitly NOT to help allies fight wars, much less start unprovoked wars, outside of Europe or North America. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There Are So Many Things Wrong With Trump’s Two-Week Deadline to Negotiate Peace With Iran If little progress has been made after two weeks, what will Trump do?

The ceasefire: who backed down, who emerges in a stronger position than before the war began? The answers aren't pleasant. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump Is Just Openly Threatening War Crimes What kind of person talks like this—let alone a president at war?

Trump's unhinged Easter tweets, his open threat to commit war crimes, and the big question--will anyone around him do anything about it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump’s First Speech About the War With Iran Explained Absolutely Nothing Let's take stock of just how much Trump is distorting the truth about this war.

Dissecting Trump's appalling Iran-war speech. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump’s Boxed Himself Into a Trap on Iran Even if the president winds down the war now, he’ll leave the U.S. worse off than when it started.

Trump's self-inflicted trap in Iran: he now has to send in ground troops or withdraw. Either way, we're all worse off than before he started this war without a plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This Could Be the Real Decisive Factor in the War With Iran—and Hegseth Seems Oblivious to It The U.S. and Iran are fighting different wars.

What Trump doesn't get about asymmetric war--why he's bashing Iran but not winning. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The U.S. Bombed an Elementary School in Iran. Trump’s Response Makes It Worse. It is possible—under previous presidents, it has been policy—to admit to making horrific mistakes in wartime.

How Trump has made the bombing of an Iran girls' school even worse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why arming and the encouraging the Kurds to go fight in Iran is at best a cynical gesture and at worst a recipe for widening the war and turning Iran into a landscape of sectarian civil war.

Trump Just Made a Shocking Admission About His Iran War His explanations for why he went to war keep getting worse. His plans for the future aren’t looking any better.

Trump's new rationales for the war only make his case, and him, look worse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I'm on Brian Lehrer's show, at WNYC Radio, at 10am to talk about the Iran war.

Trump Is About to Send More U.S. Forces to Iran—and There’s Still No Clear Strategy The president leapt into this war without first thinking through his goals or the criteria of success.

The war widens, Trump widens it further, and still he has no strategy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump Just Crossed a Line He Promised He Would Never Cross This is different than his past strikes on Iran and Venezuela.

War with Iran is on--then what? (It seems Trump hasn't thought that through.) slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Iranians Offered a Good Deal. Here’s Why Trump Might Not Take It. There are only two possible reasons.

Iran has put a pretty good deal on the table. Here's why Trump will probably reject it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why This Iran Comment From Trump’s Top General Is a Big Deal Trump still has a moment to shift course.

Trump's top general warns of risks in Iran--and why this is a big deal. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Wait, Is Trump About to Go to War With Iran? The president who promised an end to military misadventures in the Middle East sure looks ready to embark on a military misadventure in the Middle East.

Is Trump going to war with Iran--if so, why? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump Wants Veterans to Lose Benefits As Soon As Their PTSD Symptoms Are Treated. There’s One Problem With That. The consequences of this shift are not abstract.

Shocking report, by a disabled Iraq-war vet, of how a new VA rule will reduce his well-earned benefits. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Miles Davis Quintet's Live 10-LP Masterpiece Gets A Second Release A new vinyl reissue of "The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel"

My Tracking Angle review of the newly reissued 10-LP boxed set of Miles Davis' "The Complete Live At the Plugged Nickel 1965" (enthralling music, mixed sonics). trackingangle.com/music/the-mi...

Pete Hegseth Is Being Even Dumber Than Usual The secretary of defense just revealed that he fundamentally misunderstands what war is.

The idiocy of Hegseth cutting DoD's ties with Harvard (and, by the way, does he know Gen Caine, the JCS chairman, went to Harvard's Kennedy School?) slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Real Reason Trump Wants to Rip Up Our Nuclear Weapons Treaty With Russia The president's lies have gone nuclear.

The real reason Trump let the New START nuclear arms treaty die--and the especially egregious lies he told while doing so. slate.com/news-and-pol...

For the First Time in Half a Century, We Won’t Have a Nuclear Treaty With Russia. Trump Is Totally Unprepared. And there's a new dimension to the possible arms race scenarios ahead of us.

The last US-Russia nuclear arms treaty expires this week. Trump has done nothing about it. What he should do. slate.com/news-and-pol...

NATO Is Doing Military Exercises—Without America. That Does Not Mean Anything Good. The rupture deepens.

If US-Europe relations really do rupture, historians will look back on last week as the breaking point. Here's why. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A Seat on Trump’s “Board of Peace” Costs $1 Billion. Guess Who Gets the Money. The leaders of China, India, and Russia are among those who haven’t yet responded.

Trump's preposterous, going-nowhere Board of Peace. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Our European Allies Just Exposed Trump’s Core Weakness—and Also America’s The Europeans did something that the president, with some reason, thought they would never do.

Trump goes TACO on Greenland. Good news, sort of, but it doesn't end--in some ways, it worsens--the crisis for him, the Europeans, and us all. slate.com/news-and-pol...

At Davos, Trump’s Speech Stood Out—but Another One Mattered Much More The Canadian prime minister started to outline what comes next.

Two speeches at Davos (Carney's and 'Trump's) and how they point the way to a turbulent new world. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Canada engaging 'with open eyes' as great powers use economic integration as 'weapons,' PM says YouTube video by CBC News

Canadian PM Carney's speech at Davos today is THE speech about international politics in our time. Watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg4r...

It Might Have Seemed as if Trump Couldn’t Get More Irrational. Greenland Proves He’s Just Getting Started. The Mad King era is upon us. Will the people with the power to do something about it do anything at all?

Trump's Greenland obsession marks a new level of madness. What to do about it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

It’s Time to Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security Even Republicans used to know that this was a mistake.

It's time to dismantle the Dept of Homeland Security. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Defense Department’s Case Against Mark Kelly Is Even Dumber Than It Sounds At the same time, it’s still having its intended effect.

Why Hegseth's crusade against Mark Kelly is even dumber than it seems. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I wrote this @Slate column (calling for the break-up of DHS, including CBP) 7 years ago, but it does seem particularly relevant today.