2025

This commentary is published in coordination with the 2025 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner.Last month’s Signal chat scandal was the latest of several moves by the three-month-old Trump administration that…

Iran is ringing two deeply buried tunnel complexes with a massive security perimeter linked to its main nuclear complex, a report said Wednesday, amid US and Israeli threats of attack.The Institute for Science and International Security…

Jordan outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets on Wednesday after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, Interior Minister Mazen Fraya said.There was…

Reservists demanded on Tuesday that the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee hold a series of discussions on the draft law to advance a law that would support the security needs of the state, in a letter addressed to MK Yuli Edelstein.The…

If a reader could look up the term “game show host” in an illustrated dictionary, that reader almost certainly would find a picture of Winston Conrad “Wink” Martindale nearby. From the 1960s through the 1990s, Martindale, who died at age 91…

In personnel and policy, the Trump administration has demonstrated a dogged devotion to dismantling and destroying the federal government-led censorship-industrial complex. One recent illustration is the State Department’s announcement that…

Should sitting judges — especially the controversial James Boasberg and Tanya Chutkan — be able to tell the president what other judges he can appoint? Of course not. But under the current system for selecting D.C.’s local judges, that’s…

Oh, the irony! California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the gel-haired darling of the left, has decided to play President Andrew Jackson’s foil in a modern-day Nullification Crisis. His lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs — filed with…

Are you stumped on what to buy for the graduate whose announcement just landed in your mailbox? Wondering what kids like these days, or whether those iTunes gift cards stuffed in the back of your gifting closet are still relevant? If you…

Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has lost her defamation suit retrial against the New York Times. The federal jury ruled after just two hours of deliberation on Tuesday that the New York Times was not guilty of libel when it…