Nearly 22 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a usually invisible but always vigilant network protects the homeland from potential enemies. That system appears to have worked on Sunday afternoon as six F-16…

The risk of conflict in the Western Pacific is growing as China raises the military stakes with a goal of dominating the region. The Biden Administration will have to keep its nerve, while preparing for…

Most days we each face decisions, few with serious consequences.  Others, however, can be harbingers of what’s to come, for good or ill. Though we may be reading too much into it, an instance from…

It’s not difficult for Democrats and Republicans alike to list multiple reasons to hate the debt limit agreement reached over the weekend by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. The irony, of course,…

The world is sliding into a new age of nuclear risk — in which miscalculation or accident could lead to catastrophe. The great progress the nuclear powers made in the 1990s through arms control and…

Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” begins: When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? / The loss we carry. A sea we must wade. She made…

The world is tooling up. The peace dividend it has enjoyed since the end of the cold war — releasing wads of cash from defense to spend on other things — is ending. Now comes…

Robert Zimmer, a mathematician who served 15 years as president of the University of Chicago, died Tuesday at age 75. In announcing his death, the university said his presidency will be remembered as “one of…

It’s more than semantics for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to say he has “captured” the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine when in fact it has been wiped off the face of the Earth. Nothing remains of…

Nevada, Arizona and California tentatively agreed last weekend to decrease their water use in an effort to rescue their lifeline, the Colorado River. In return, the states will receive $1.2 billion in federal funds for…