In J.R.R. Tolkien’s great epic, “The Lord of the Rings,” it becomes apparent only gradually that the forces of darkness have united. Sauron, with his baleful all-seeing eye, emerges as the leader of a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday invoked the ...

Israel says it expects to be imminently and simultaneously attacked by “Iran’s axis of evil” — Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Iranian military forces. Iran allegedly told ...

The plural of “axis” is “axes,” apparently. And foreign policy types with axes to grind have been making good use of this other meaning, too. Earlier this year, academic Walter Russell Mead warned in ...

There are undoubtedly people who have a more vivid memory of Will Farrell’s “Saturday Night Live” version of the “Axis of Evil” — the one in which Farrell, as President George W. Bush, denounced Iran, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Joe Biden is juggling significant conflicts worldwide as he ...

Since Feb. 24, 2022, and especially since Oct. 7, 2023, a specter has haunted the world and worried US President Joe Biden in particular: Will Russia’s war against Ukraine, or Israel’s against Hamas, ...

The Trump administration is facing widespread criticism for aligning with authoritarian regimes—including Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary—by opposing a United Nations resolution condemning ...

The world has changed since President George W. Bush, in his 2002 State of the Union address, first called Iran, Iraq and North Korea the “Axil of Evil.” Today, there’s a different, four-country Axis ...

The State of the Union has been the occasion for many very bad ideas. I’ve been watching them for decades, and today, ahead of Trump’s address, I am going to blog on some of the worst moments in ...