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Thucydides, writing of the slow unraveling of Athenian power in the fifth century before Christ, observed something that modern strategists tend to rediscover only after catastrophe: that empires do not fall primarily because of military weakness, but because of a failure of will. Athens possessed the ships, the treasury, and the manpower to prosecute the Peloponnesian War. Read More.

On Tuesday, Governor Mikie Sherrill — a Democrat — announced that her state had removed roughly 6,600 individuals from New Jersey's voter rolls. Why? Read More.

The U.S. Department of Defense identified two soldiers killed in a July 17 Iranian missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan: 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas. Read More.

The man running America's biggest city just threatened to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel. Let that sink in. Read More.

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

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.

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.

Tuesday night in New York City, the Democratic Party held its own funeral and didn't even notice. Read More.