Ali Hashem    Even before the Islamic Republic, the country has always wanted the same thing.

Sina Azodi    Tehran regards Washington’s demand as tantamount to unconditional surrender, but there may yet be a way forward.

Alexandra Sharp    Rising oil prices and growing bond market volatility have raised fears of a global recession.

Ravi Agrawal    A lot of things have gone horribly wrong and it’s not over yet.

Alexandra Sharp    From the Iran war to trade, the U.S. president failed to secure major concessions from his counterpart.

Rachel Oswald    A half-century of messy politics has inverted the Constitution’s design and there’s no easy fix.

Eli Wizevich and Maxine Davey    The British prime minister is barely clinging to power over a split and unpopular Labour Party.

Steven A. Cook    The Iran war spotlights one of Washington’s most contentious counterfactuals.

Michael Hirsh    The Tehran regime is more hard-line than ever and has nothing left to lose.

Matthew Kroenig    Trump should push for zero enrichment in perpetuity as part of any deal with Tehran.

Alexandra Sharp    Global market shocks spark calls for a regional power grid and emergency fuel stockpile.

Ravi Agrawal    U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have led regular people to rally around the flag for now.

Rishi Iyengar and John Haltiwanger    The White House ignores the threat of far-right groups.

Matthew Duss and Zuri Linetsky    Despite promising peace, Israeli-Gulf cooperation paved the path to war with Iran.

Saeid Golkar    After years of quiet encroachment by ordinary people, the Islamic Republic reclaims the urban landscape.

Alexandra Sharp    A reported memorandum would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and lay the framework for future nuclear talks.

Adam Weinstein    Iran shows that the delusions that caused Iraq and Afghanistan persist.

Yonatan Touval    Officially or not, Washington is now breaking the taboo and talking about its ally’s bombs.

Will Walldorf    There is a way out of this mess but not right away.

Alexandra Sharp    Trump’s latest gambit to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has inflamed the fragile cease-fire with Iran.

Sam Skove    Ukraine and its partners are holding their breath to see what’s next for Patriot air defense missile deliveries.

C. Raja Mohan    Collective action by lesser powers will not shape the global order.

Alexandra Sharp    The White House argues that the U.S.-Iran cease-fire paused the clock.

Kamran Yousuf    The Iran war is choking supply of the world’s most expensive spice.

Aaron David Miller and Daniel C. Kurtzer    He hoped it would be transformational; instead, it’s just one more round in the conflict.