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To reduce the risk of nuclear conflict, the U.S., the E.U., and other countries may want a return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but Israel does not. On Sunday, Iran said a blackout at its Natanz atomic facility was an act of “nuclear terrorism.” The outage comes less than a week after talks began to revive the nuclear pact abandoned by President Donald Trump, and just a day after Iran had launched new centrifuges they say will enrich uranium 50 times faster than Iran’s first-generation centrifuges. Israel typically doesn't confirm such operations but Israeli media quoted government s...

Memos penned by bureaucrats can sometimes alter history. In 1946, George Kennan sent a telegram from Moscow back to his bosses at the U.S. State Department. The now-famous “long telegram” warned that the Soviet Union, an ally in defeating Nazi Germany, would be looking to expand its influence and its communist system. The 8,000-word missive resulted in a decadeslong U.S. policy of wielding its economic and military might to contain the Soviets. The so-called Cold War had begun. Government analysts, no matter how well informed, never possess crystal-clear views of the future. Inevitably, u...

Loading the player... One of the most amazing things about the human mind is its ability to imagine events that haven’t happened yet. To make a decision about something new – trying a new dish, picking a show to watch, and choosing a career – you have to mentally construct the experience and then predict how pleasant or unpleasant it will be.  But this simulation, say psychologists, is often distorted. Our predictions tend to exaggerate how happy or sad we’ll feel, and for how long. “No doubt good things make us happy and bad things make us sad,” says Tim Wilson, a social psychol...

Sometimes it can seem that there’s more darkness and chaos than light in the world. But the light of Christ is always here to uplift, heal, and illuminate the path to progress.

A young Black man was shot by police and died in a Minneapolis suburb, heightening tensions midway through the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Protests across the city lasted late into the night on Sunday.