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The ceasefire was always a bet. And Iran just called it in. Read More.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon has established a joint task force with the Department of Justice to identify and criminally prosecute government officials who leak sensitive national security information to journalists, according to a statement from the Defense Department. Read More.

Thucydides, writing of the protracted struggle between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century before Christ, observed that nations go to war not for the stated reasons of justice or grievance, but because of fear, honor, and interest — Read More.

Two years ago today, a 20-year-old kid with a rifle climbed onto a rooftop 130 yards from the stage at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was there. People saw him. They called it in. And then Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight rounds at the President of the United States, one of which grazed his ear by millimeters. Read More.

The Department of Justice sent federal agents to the homes of four New York Times reporters on Saturday, delivering grand jury subpoenas related to the publication of a story that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had warned would compromise “highly classified national security secrets,” according to reports confirmed in part by the Times itself. Read More.

This Fourth of July, as the United States marks its 250th anniversary, it is worth pausing on that observation. Not as a theoretical exercise. As a diagnostic tool. Read More.

Nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered on that September morning. Firefighters climbed into burning skyscrapers and didn't come back. Office workers called their families from 100 floors up to say goodbye. The country watched in real time as the towers fell. Read More.

In Federalist No. 70, Alexander Hamilton argued that "energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government." Read More.

Here's what the Supreme Court decided Monday. States can count mail-in ballots that show up after Election Day. Not a few minutes after. Not a few hours after. After. The day is over, the polls are closed, and somewhere out there, ballots are still making their way to county election offices — and they count. Read More.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of unlawfully retaining classified national defense information, according to reporting from the Washington Examiner and statements from President Donald Trump. Read More.

Tocqueville, in his portrait of American democracy written nearly two centuries ago, identified the peculiar danger embedded in democratic governance: that the passion for equality, once unleashed, consumes every institution, custom, and restraint in its path. Equality before the law becomes equality of outcome. Equality of opportunity becomes equality of condition. The citizens of a democracy, Tocqueville warned, do not merely want to be free — they want to be assured that no one is better than they are. It is a soft, pervasive tyranny, unlike the hard despotisms of the ancient world, because it arrives not through violence but through the popular will itself. Read More.

Trump just struck Iran. The ceasefire signed last week — the one everyone said was a diplomatic breakthrough — is now fraying. Iran attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. American aircraft responded with strikes on Iranian missile and drone storage facilities. Then Iran launched a drone assault on Bahrain and hit another ship. Read More.

A federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton has sentenced a 28-year-old Minneapolis activist to no prison time following her conviction on charges of assaulting federal officers during an anti-deportation confrontation targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read More.

On the Fourth of July, 1826 — precisely fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence — two of its most distinguished authors died. John Adams in Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, each within hours of the other, as if Providence itself had drawn a curtain on the Founding generation. Neither lived long enough to know with certainty whether the experiment they had launched would endure. Read More.