When the Senate voted last week on a resolution intended to limit the president’s authority to continue military operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the outcome was predictable: Democrats largely supported the measure as a check on the Trump Administration, while Republicans ...

Can anyone reading this editorial right now explain, clearly and succinctly, why the U.S. is currently engaged in an open-ended military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran? If you said yes, congratulations — you’re doing better than the Trump administration. President Donald ...

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by a US-Israeli strike is a targeted assassination of a head of state. It also marks a grave escalation in a region already burdened with smouldering wars and fragile states. The consequences of the deliberate strike will ...

Maybe the United Nations isn’t as useless as it so often shows. Last Monday the Security Council endorsed President Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, ratifying for the first time the requirements that Hamas disarm and Gaza be demilitarized. The resolution passed 13-0, with Russia and ...

Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most. I wish that old cliche were not so appropriate. I don’t know who said that first, but he or she was a perceptive genius, and definitely over sixty – the age when chronic forgetfulness moves in permanently. What are you saying to ...

Once upon a time, long ago now, I spent a lot of of time in the City of Falconer, which I found to be a magical little place. It was the home of my mother’s sister and her little family of four, and they were ensconced on a tiny little street named Grace, which at the time was inhabited by ...