In the final weeks before his death, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei cast the mounting hostility of U.S. President Donald Trump in religious and explicitly Shiite terms. Rejecting calls for capitulation, he invoked the example of Imam Hussein—the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last week, in a prime-time speech that was confused and discursive even by his own standards, President Donald Trump attempted to justify ...

It’s not their war. But it’s becoming their political and economic nightmare. World leaders who opposed the US-Israeli attack on Iran are being torn between Donald Trump’s ire at their failure to join the conflict and electorates who are deeply ...

Three storylines are gripping American political life simultaneously in 2026, each volatile on its own. One involves a dead convicted sex offender and millions of pages of government documents that many Americans believe are still being hidden from them.

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. From the courts and the firing of his attorney general to tariffs, gas prices and the war in Iran, this week highlighted multiple stressors that are putting significant political pressure on ...

When President Trump and G.O.P. leaders denounced the pope’s comments about the U.S. attack on Iran, they touched off a religious debate over what is and isn’t a “just war.” By Elizabeth Dias Elizabeth Dias is the national religion correspondent.

A man stands amid the debris of a destroyed building at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, April 4, 2026, amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Credit: OSV News photo/Majid Asgaripour, WANA via Reuters America asked a group of leading Catholic ...