In the early 2010s, I was sitting in a park in north Tehran with an Iranian intelligence officer who didn’t know I had infiltrated his operation. He asked me a question: Do you know how to boil a frog? If you throw it into boiling water, it jumps out. But if you place it in […]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would appoint academics and players in chemical and other industries and additional scientists to its Science Advisory Board (SAB). The new appointments come more than a year after the administration “reset” the board, dismissing the scientists who were on it. This board is made up of outside scientists who provide scientific...

Optimism and confusion were intermingled on Friday as President Trump suggested an end to the conflict in Iran was within reach, even as many of his claims were met with silence or murmurs of dissent from Tehran. The war is at an inflection point, seven weeks after it was launched by the United States and...

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) on Thursday alluded to President Trump's since-deleted image of himself resembling Jesus Christ when she slammed the impact that the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran has had on costs in the U.S., prompting her to say the president can "f--- his a--." Kamlager-Dove said in a video taken by MediasTouch reporter Pablo...