Trump renews bridge, power plant threat against Iran in push for deal, mocks ‘tough guy’ IRGC

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump mocked the Islamic Revolutionary Guard on Sunday morning for staking claim to a Strait of Hormuz “blockade” the U.S. military had already put in place. “Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it,”

That Old Familiar Bern

Even if you loathe Bernie Sanders, you will adore this phenomenal and utterly charming 500-plus page love letter to the state of Vermont and its people. Superbly written—Chiasson is a Wellesley College English professor and a well-known poet—it is also immersively researched, since Chiasson, who’s now 55, grew up in Burlington during the 1980s when

When Trotsky Got the Axe

Most readers of Josh Ireland’s Death of Trotsky will already know the basic outline of the story: Leon Trotsky falls out with Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924. He proves no match to Stalin; his faction loses critical Politburo debates; he is exiled, eventually lands in Mexico City, where he is assassinated on

Into the Woods

I’ve never been to Maine, and all of the hikes I’ve ever taken can be tallied on one hand. Yet, somehow, in reading How to Survive in the Woods, Kat Rosenfield’s latest thriller, I find myself transported to a dense stretch of forest somewhere along the Appalachian Trail. Not the postcard version, the one with

They Got Game

In the last 58 years, the Philadelphia 76ers have won exactly one NBA Championship. That was in 1983, when two forces of nature—center Moses Malone and small forward Julius Erving—converged, finally delivering a title to a starving fan base embittered by previous playoff heartbreaks to the legendary Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird, and Magic