Michael Hirsh

A year ago today Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal Moscow correspondent, was meeting with a source at a steakhouse when FSB agents arrested

Tehran’s first-ever attack on Israel was designed to be shot down. But Netanyahu could still turn it into a real war.

Like many Americans, Richard Haass is still trying to understand why Iran decided to attack Israel directly over the weekend with a barrage of more than 300 missiles and drones, most of which were shot down. The attack was a retaliation for an airstrike by Israel earlier this month that killed a top general with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Damascus. But Haass believes Tehran has miscalculated and will come to regret its decision to shift from its longtime strategy of using proxy forces in places like Syria and Iraq into launching a direct attack on civilian areas in Israel, which has only rekindled sympathy for Israelis.

In a new memoir, renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin relives the turbulent decade, her late husband’s role in the JFK and LBJ administrations, and the time period’s lessons for today.

Why are China hawks exaggerating the threat from Beijing?

Trump's felony conviction shows that no man is above the law, but it also deepens the United States' war with itself.

The West's latest actions against Russia carry risks for the global system and could provoke China.

The United States is in a very bad place. Just not as bad as people think.

Donald Trump has threatened to leave NATO so many times — or has appeared to, anyway — that for many of his critics it's a question of when, not