A New Geopolitical Reality Is Here
America’s adversaries are uniting as its own coalition falls apart.
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Iranian Army Office / ZUMA Press Wire / Reuters The Countdown to a Ground War
The president wants to avoid a long, messy entanglement, but all of the ground options promise to be just that.
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP The Disappearing Off-Ramp in Iran
The options for ending the war keep getting fewer and worse.
Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty America’s and Israel’s Goals Are Already Colliding
Trump and Netanyahu seem to have very different ideas about how the war should end.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Joe Raedle / Getty. The Real Reason Anthropic Wants Guardrails
AI is too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Anna Moneymaker / Getty; ClassicStock / Getty. America Doesn’t Need a Deal or a War With Iran
Why the rush, when Washington has all the leverage?
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Andrew Harnik / Getty; 2025 Vantor / Maxar / Getty. Marco Rubio Doesn’t Get It
The Trump administration continues to lambaste friends and empower foes.
Alexandra Beier / AFP / Getty What the Greenland Crisis Teaches Europe About Trump
European leaders may have averted catastrophe for now, but they still have to settle a crucial debate about how to handle the president.
Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty A Strategy That Ignores the Real Threats
The administration’s new policy shows less concern for the American homeland than for building an illiberal world order.
Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu / Getty A Self-Defeating Reversal on Ukraine
The Trump administration had actually begun to make progress. Now it’s all in doubt.
Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / Getty
