Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Sometimes it’s in our best interest to avoid the advice of economic professionals. In ...

Within hours of the U.S. and Israel bombing Tehran in early March, Iranian missiles began flying in all directions, striking U.S. bases in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and elsewhere. Was ...

The popular image of a world war is sudden catastrophe, mass mobilization, and unmistakable collapse. That is not what we see today. However, the world is in a great power competition, a distributed ...

Few ideas have re-entered political language as forcefully as World War III. The war in Ukraine, the escalation in the Middle East, including the use of ...

As bombs were being lobbed between Iran and Israel last summer – which eventually included American action on three Iranian nuclear sites – we reasoned that it likely wouldn’t be the onset of World ...

Cold War nuclear weapons systems deployed close to enemy territory, on constant alert, or with rapid strike capabilities repeatedly brought Washington and Moscow to the brink of war through compressed ...

Donald Trump has intensified fears of a looming global conflict after boasting U.S. progress in the war with Iran is "about a 15" on a scale of 10, as the sudden resurfacing of an old video of Boris ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Analysis: The Irresistible Urge to Invoke World War III ...

Stretcher cases awaiting transport to a Casualty Clearing Station lie on the ground outside a dressing station at Blangy near Arras, France, April 1917, First Battle of the Scarpe. (John Warwick ...

Sometimes it’s in our best interest to avoid the advice of economic professionals. In this case, I refer to Henry Morgenthau Jr., secretary of the Treasury under President Harry Truman, whose 1944 ...