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President Donald Trump addresses the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s dangerous moral crusade

Chauncey DeVega
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting on Oct. 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth's action movie rhetoric

Casey Ryan Kelly - The Conversation
Anti-war protestors gather in front of the New York Public Library and mourn the 180 Iranian children killed during U.S.-Israeli bombing on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, on March 08, 2026, in New York City, U.S. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Getty Images)

US likely responsible for school strike

Alex Galbraith
President Donald Trump dons a branded Trump 45-47 hat while attending the dignified transfer of remains at Dover Air Force Base. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Fox tries — and fails — to shield Trump

Sophia Tesfaye
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As escalation continues, scenes like this become everyday scenarios for Iran and its neighboring countries in the Middle East. Casualty counts, including US service members, continue to grow as well. (Kaveh Kazemi / Getty Images)

Iran power struggle looms amid strikes

CK Smith
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Graham: Iran is going down, Cuba is next

Alex Galbraith
(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Brendan Smialowski / Anna Moneymaker / Anadolu)

Trump’s Cabinet tries to sell a war

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump speaks at “The Shield of the Americas Summit“ as Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth look on, Trump National Doral Golf Club, March 7, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Behind Trump’s war fever lies weakness

Andrew O'Hehir
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Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The price of democracy in America

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump holding bible (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's "Christian" war definitely isn't

Kirk Swearingen
President Trump's demands for Iran's "unconditional surrender" and threatens further strikes. Iran says "no" as other countries hope for deescalation through diplomacy. (picture alliance / Getty Images)

Trump: Iran will be "hit very hard" soon

CK Smith
Explosions during the first few minutes of the massive U.S. air attack on Baghdad, March 21, 2003. (Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

Trump renews the flawed "war on terror"

Mohammad Ali Salih
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s war without rules

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump speaks as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a "Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health Roundtable" in the East Room of the White House on January 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Iran war enrages MAHA movement

Garrett Owen
President Donald Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

With Iran, confusion is the point

Brian Karem
Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei adjusts his eyeglasses during a press conference after casting his ballot for the parliamentary runoff elections in Tehran on May 10, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Who picks Iran's supreme leader?

Eric Lob - The Conversation
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Brian McGinnis, a protester dressed in a military uniform, gets stuck in a door, injuring his arm, as Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) (R) and U.S. Capitol Police officers attempt to remove him from a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026 in Washington, DC. The protester has been identified as Brian McGinnis from North Carolina. The Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support is holding a hearing to examine the current readiness of the Joint Force. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sheehy removes anti-war veteran

Jelinda Montes
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tulsi Gabbard's conflict of interest

Jesselyn Radack
Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's latest Iran plan will backfire

Heather Digby Parton
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters ahead of a briefing by Trump administration officials to members of the Senate on U.S. strikes on Iran, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voters sidelined over Middle East policy

Russell Payne
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A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was confirmed killed after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Iran strikes leave US travelers in lurch

Garrett Owen
Smoke rises from the area after it was targeted in attacks as a series of explosions are heard in Tehran, Iran on March 01, 2026. The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building after Iranian authorities said it was targeted in the attacks, as the Iranian army announced it had launched new strikes against U.S. and Israeli targets. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Does the US have an endgame in Iran?

Farah N. Jan - The Conversation
Donald Trump used social media again to dictate policy. This time to end migration from "Third-World Countries" and call out Minnesota's Somalian community. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: Favored Iran successors are dead

Alex Galbraith
Talk of President Donald Trump's "Donroe Doctrine" has been overblown (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s foreign policy has no rules

Heather Digby Parton
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