Mohammed bin Salman has appalling judgment and a terrible track record, so it comes as no surprise that he thinks having the U.S. start a war with Iran is a good idea.

A gift of the complete works of Australia’s greatest poet

Trump’s declaration that he won’t “let” Iran have nuclear weapons is disturbing because it shows how divorced from reality he and his Iran policy are.

Also: Hemingway’s disastrous stint as a WWII correspondent, and more.

The Left reacts to the heartbeat laws

Consumers might still feel the pinch, but ultimately Beijing needs our surplus more than we need their trade.

After nearly 18 years in Afghanistan, the people know the war is lost. When will Washington elites let go?

Answer: John Bolton and the Persian Gulf autocrats. Why should we lose a single soldier for their delusions?

A new account of the troubled city just outside the Beltway

The president reportedly does not want war with Iran, but it is hard to take that seriously when he makes cavalier threats about “ending” a nation of 80 million people.

We can’t make sense of Trump’s relentless hostility to Iran and its people unless we remember to take his extreme bias in favor of these regional clients into account.

Humanity is a casualty of extreme culture war

Did Izzy Folau and religious liberty fears play a role in Labor loss?

James Holzhauer doesn’t skirt the rules, he just plays unconventionally—a good tableau for life.

The 18-year-old war on terror comes home as Eddie Gallagher faces charges of killing civilians and trying to cover it up.

We need to revive good jobs in the kinds of places that are most conducive to family life.

Pro-life law exempts de facto abortion in fertilization clinics. That’s hypocritical

She wants to fight payday lenders by getting USPS deeper involved in banking. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.

The Trump administration has pursued a policy of relentless hostility towards Iran, and then they misread normal actions as a new threat.

They’re doing exactly what we would do in their situation and we should change course before it gets worse.

The health and development of millions of Yemenis will be permanently harmed by the effects of this war long after the fighting stops.

If they will destroy the career of the country’s No. 1 rugby player, who is safe?

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense could be the ultimate fox in the henhouse.

Also: The College Board’s “adversity score,” Werner Herzog’s “Meeting Gorbachev,” and more.

Warren Phillips kept it a voice of conservative reason even as other papers were tilting left.

If it means shutting off social media and putting down our phones, then we should all be so fortunate.

A pregnant woman identified on medical records as a man loses her baby, perhaps because ER doctors didn’t know ‘he’ was a biological she

Also: USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Suez Canal, and more.

It is our constant overreaching and threat inflation that are the real threats to the United States.