It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an ...

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Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated Donald Trump. So ends ...

Some Americans have a constitutional right to insist on theocracy. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, supremecourt.gov, and Amazon.

So ends the creepy mystique of the supposedly indomitable terror state of Iran, the bane of the last seven American ...

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Even worse for the theocracy, Iran's temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated U.S. President Donald Trump.

Even worse for the theocracy, Iran’s temporary reprieve came from the now magnanimous but still hated U.S. President Donald Trump.

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the ...