A president calls for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” then floats picking the next government and rebuilding a nation of 90 million. We unpack how a mission that began as punitive strikes ballooned into de facto nation building, why timelines quietly stretched from...
Kyle just finished printing out the form he needed to send to a client, an elderly woman who had just lost her husband. He felt empathy for her and really wanted to get it done as fast as possible. Searching the nearby desk, he could not find the stapler. He looked...
Two million people flood central Tehran and an American reporter says he felt safe—so what else about Iran, the protests, and the path to war have we been getting wrong? We open with a vivid, on-the-ground account of Iran’s national day, where politics look more like...
