Trump Could Leave the Iran Mess to His Successor
And if he blames the next administration for whatever happens, he’ll likely succeed.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty Three Changes Wrought by the Iran War
The conflict will affect the economy in ways that most Americans still do not understand.
Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty What Trump Got Right in the Middle East
He put business front and center and politics to the side.
Win McNamee / Getty Biden’s Middle East Legacy
Donald Trump inherits a Middle East that looks dramatically different from the one his administration left in 2021.
Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic* Netanyahu Doesn’t Care About His Friendship With Biden
Washington should be dictating policy to Jerusalem, not the other way around.
Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg / Getty Nasrallah’s Folly
The Hezbollah leader escalated a fight that Israel was only too eager to wage. Now Israel claims to have killed him.
Ibrahim Amro / AFP / Getty The Saudi Deal the U.S. Actually Needs
The United States and Saudi Arabia seem fated to deepen their partnership. We should make that partnership as functional as possible.
Amr Nabil / AP A Peace Deal That Seems Designed to Fail
Saudi Arabia knows that Israel will be the fall guy when this agreement falls apart.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Michael Ciaglo / Bertrand Guay / Jacquelyn Martin / Getty. Is the Destruction of Gaza Making Israel Any Safer?
More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza.
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