Kathy Gilsinan
She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Goes After Iran’s Supreme Leader
After pulling back from a strike on Iran, the Trump administration opted to impose sanctions on Ali Khamenei. But it’s unclear how effective they’ll really be.
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Catie Coylei / U.S. Navy / Handout / ... Is There Still a Deal to Be Done With Iran?
Below the surface, there are faint signs of how both parties can exit the crisis.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Might Not Want War, but the Military Is Steering His Iran Policy
The buildup in the Middle East is coming at the request of the forces responsible for the region.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Defense Department Is Leaderless Again
Patrick Shanahan withdrew from consideration to be secretary of defense after reports of a harrowing family situation.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Iran Has Options and It’s Starting to Use Them
Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign has not forced Tehran to yield—in fact, it’s done the opposite.
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Handout / Reuters The World Is Getting Sucked Into U.S.-Iran Tensions
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for the latest tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Is Set to Send More Troops Overseas—This Time to Poland
The next question is what Russia’s response will be.
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Courtesy of the ACLU Exclusive: ACLU Alleges Coast Guard Detained and Abused Fishermen
A lawsuit says the agency accused innocent men of drug smuggling, chained them to decks, and sailed with them straight into a hurricane.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Trump Wants to Leave the Middle East. He’s Not Getting His Wish.
The new deployment is a small fraction of the tens of thousands of troops already there. But it’s designed to send a signal to Iran.
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Tariq Mahmood / AFP / Getty / The ... He Was Branded the ‘American Taliban.’ Now He’s Getting Out of Jail.
John Walker Lindh was the first American to face charges related to the War on Terror. Dozens have followed.
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Jon Gambrell / AP The Partisan Divide on How to Read the Intelligence on Iran
Adam Schiff lays out his worries on the intelligence, but the Trump administration is pushing back.
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Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Darion Chanelle Triplett ... The Knowns and Unknowns of What’s Happening With Iran
Conflicting signals from both sides could be read as a march to war or business as usual.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Trump Thinks He Can Outsmart Putin
Mike Pompeo’s meeting with the Russian leader will help test the theory that the president’s “good cop” routine is politically useful.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Two Nuclear Problems, One Policy: Maximum Pressure
Can Trump do with Iran what he’s tried to do with North Korea?
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Andrew Harnik / AP Shanahan Finishes His Four-Month Audition for Defense Secretary
Trump has finally given his acting defense secretary the nod to be permanent. Now he just has to deal with a skeptical Senate and a threatening world.
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U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class ... The Many Ways Iran Could Target the United States
The White House is citing unspecified threats from Iran. The specifics are murky, but the potential for escalation is real.
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Sait Serkan Gurbuz / AP A Boom Time for U.S. Sanctions
The explosive growth in their use has prompted questions about how much is too much.
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TIMA via Reuters Pay Attention to What the U.S. Is Doing to Iran
The Trump administration keeps amping up its pressure campaign against Iran.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters A Warlord Rises in Libya
And Trump is praising him.
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Desmond Boylan / AP Trump’s Venezuela Policy: Slow Suffocation
The administration is pressuring other countries to tighten the noose on Nicolás Maduro. But his backers have the upper hand.
