Open Thread

President Donald Trump and his predecessors spent decades putting the U.S. on a path toward war against Iran.

Australian lawmakers are considering a new scheme to regulate and to extract revenue from American technology. If enacted, it would impose a 2.25% levy on the Australian revenues of three major platforms unless they strike commercial deals with local news publishers, with the rate falling to as low as 1.5% if enough agreements are reached. […]

President Trump’s frustration with media coverage of the war on Iran boiled over Thursday when he alleged that reporting from The New York Times was “seditious” and called CNN “stupid” and “the enemy.” Verbal fusillades against the media are commonplace for Trump, but the unusually intense Thursday attack seemed emblematic of his frustration with a...

The Supreme Court’s rollback of the Voting Rights Act is already throwing the 2026 midterm elections into flux, as states weigh last-minute changes to their congressional maps, while preparing for a much broader redistricting battle in the years beyond. In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the ruling makes it significantly harder for […]