After the 9/11 attacks, the United States threw out international law and established a surveillance society, writes Margot Patterson. Covid-19 calls for a less heavy-handed approach, but will we realize that?

The long-term objective of the Trump administration’s campaign against Iran is unclear, writes Margot Patterson, raising comparisons to U.S. failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A U.S. war with Iran would be far costlier than our disastrous invasion of Iraq, writes Margot Patterson, but it may be the outcome of the Trump administration’s draconian economic sanctions and reckless saber-rattling.

Two of the most influential anti-Muslim organizations have direct ties to the Trump administration.

Why did Mr. Trump choose to leave the agreement at a time when he is negotiating a similar agreement with North Korea?

The U.S.-led missile strikes on Syria are a show of force that will accomplish nothing in a country that has seen nothing but war for seven years.

This Croatian artist Ivan Mestrovic taught me how art can be used for prayer.

Leaving Haiti should be a goal of every N.G.O.

In the wake of my reading The Dark Is Rising, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to try to keep pace with time, not lag behind it as I usually do.

The ‘chaos candidate’ is now our pyromaniac president.