Analysis: Trump’s craving for the spotlight risks Iran deal hopes
Donald Trump has spent days negotiating peace in Iran — with himself. The president has rolled out each trick in his entrepreneur’s handbook “The Art of the Deal” in making…
Analysis: Even Trump’s most basic claims about the Iran war can’t be trusted
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump told The New York Post that Vice President JD Vance was already on his method to Pakistan for negotiations with Iran. “They’re heading over…
Election 2026: Results, news and analysis
Democrat Analilia Mejia will win House particular election in New Jersey, NCS tasks, additional narrowing GOP majority Analilia Mejia will win a particular election in New Jersey’s eleventh District, NCS’s…
Analysis: When is a war a ‘just war’?
A model of this story appeared in NCS’s What Matters e-newsletter. To get it in your inbox, join free here. An attention-grabbing results of President Donald Trump’s unusual and principally…
Analysis: The dangers of the Trump administration using faith to justify its war
American presidents have lengthy sought God’s benediction in wartime and for troopers heading into the fireplace of battle. But the Trump administration’s willingness to indicate divine endorsement of its authority…
Analysis: What is the deal with these strange deepfake Trump memes?
Before there was Trump as Jesus, there was Trump as the pope. There was Trump as Rocky. There was Trump in Apocalypse Now, smelling victory. There was Trump pictured with…
Analysis: How Trump’s Iran blockade could decide the war
President Donald Trump’s change from kinetic to financial warfare with his blockade of Iran’s ships and ports is an try to finish the battle with no new US-Israeli onslaught. The…
Analysis: US allies won’t join Trump’s war — but they can’t escape the fallout
It’s not their war. But it’s changing into their political and financial nightmare. World leaders who opposed the US-Israeli attack on Iran are being torn between Donald Trump’s ire at…
Analysis: China has so far weathered the historic oil crisis. But as Xi prepares to meet Trump, costs are starting to grow
Beijing — China, the world’s largest importer of power, has so far weathered the international power shock introduced on by warfare in the Gulf nicely in contrast with some of…
Analysis: Iran crisis epitomizes a world increasingly resistant to Trump’s demands
The iron legal guidelines of the world that govern Donald Trump’s presidency — power, drive and energy — are increasingly being challenged at house and overseas. Trump and his subordinates…