A naval blockade of Iran ordered by President Donald Trump has begun after the U.S. and Iran failed to come to an agreement ...

The political scientist Graham Allison famously warned that the two countries could fall into what he called “the Thucydides trap,” based on the idea that war is likely when a rising state threatens ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are at the Pentagon.

Global attention is riveted on West Asia, awaiting the outcome of a regime-change mission that appears to have gone astray.

In periods of geopolitical strain, the invisible infrastructure of trust built through investment becomes more visible and more essential than ever.

The REAL ID Act establishes a set of security standards for state-issued driver's licenses and identification cards, aiming to make these documents more consistent and secure. Contrary to some ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Something happens at three in the morning during a cascading failure that nobody talks about afterward. You are staring at a dashboard. Traces fan out across services you have not thought about in ...

U.S. negotiations with Iran are not occurring in a vacuum. Other U.S. adversaries are evaluating how the Trump administration ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson holds a press conference following his rejection of the Republican-led Senate DHS spending bill that would end the shutdown. Johnson denied that Senate Majority Leader John ...

Both political scientists and relationship therapists agree that performed and manufactured chaos almost never works as a ...

In an interview on 103FM, Danny Citrinowicz noted that both the US and Iran are convinced they hold the upper hand, ...