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The liquefied natural gas production facility in Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Iran war breaking bad for Gulf states

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen - The Conversation
A student plays with interlocking toys at the Connecticut State University Early Learning Center on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mark Mirko/Getty Images)

Trump makes child care worse

Beth Kania-Gosche - The Conversation
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 10: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the roundtable, Trump addressed questions on the Federal Reserve’s latest decision to cut interest rates and reports that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, among other topics. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is losing the war at home

David Smith - The Conversation
The U.S. Capitol building is seen on March 09, 2026 in Washington, DC. U.S. Senators return to Capitol Hill while the House of Representatives is out of session this week. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

How Congress can push back on Iran war

Charlie Hunt, SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor - The Conversation
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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
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
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
Protesters clashed after federal agents arrested a suspect near 28th and Blaisedell Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. ] Coverage since an influx of federal agents arrived in Minnesota. (Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Getty Images)

Minn. lawsuit is legal question mark

Andrea Katz - The Conversation
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US President Donald Trump participates in calls to US service members, on Christmas Eve, from the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, December 24, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)

Trump 2.0's attack on civil rights law

Spencer Overton - The Conversation
President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, for a summit meeting on Russia's war on Ukraine. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump on well-trod path to autocracy

Konstantin Zhukov - The Conversation
resident Donald Trump takes questions from the press in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

US races into autocratic new year

Shelley Inglis - The Conversation
Nick Fuentes, the leader of a Christian based extremist white nationalist group speaks to his followers, 'the Groypers.' in Washington D.C. on November 14, 2020 (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Black conservatives drawn to Fuentes

George Michael - The Conversation
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A member of the right-wing group Oath Keepers stands guard during a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on January 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

The Oath Keepers are coming back

Alexander Lowie - The Conversation
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Venezuela playbook is a retread

Betty Medsger - The Conversation
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Leavitt’s White House doublethink

Laura Beers - The Conversation
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Epstein's victims deserve our attention

Stephanie A. Martin
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Judges reject Trump's immigrant roundups

Cassandra Burke Robertson - The Conversation
Zohran Mamdani campaigns for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rich won't leave Mamdani's New York City

Cristobal Young - The Conversation
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein

Alexander Hinton - The Conversation
Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. ((Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images))

The US will lose its measles-free status

Kathryn H. Jacobsen - The Conversation
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Sunshine Summit opening dinner at Disney's Contemporary Resort. (Photo by Tom Benitez - Pool/Getty Images)

Dick Cheney's vision lives on in Trump

Graham G. Dodds - The Conversation
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference on Universal Child Care at Columbus Park Playground on November 19, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mamdani child care plan could change US

Simon Black - The Conversation
Prager U founder Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host and writer, speaking at the Turning Point High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Woke-proofing" comes for schools

Emery Petchauer - The Conversation
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. (Photo by Federico Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Trump goes to war without a net

Jeffrey Fields - The Conversation
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