Elie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent and a columnist. He is also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Type Media Center. He is the author of two books: the New York Times bestseller Allow Me ...

A Weakened Iran Hits Back by Strangling a Vital Waterway for Oil Supplies The threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, including mines laid by Iran, are complicating President Trump’s calculations ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military would stop Iran from choking off the Strait of Hormuz but did not say how. Oil prices remained high even after the Trump administration eased ...

The president is seeking billions in taxpayer dollars from the IRS. Whether he can do this is perhaps less important than whether he should. Trump has a pattern of taking radical steps to deal with ...

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