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8:45 PM ET, March 15, 2026

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New York Times:
Entering War's Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices … Two weeks into a war against Iran that he chose to launch, President Trump faces a stark choice — stay in the battle to achieve the dauntingly ambitious goals he has set, or try to extract himself from an expanding and intensifying conflict …
Discussion: The Wrap and CNN
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran  —  US president tells the FT in an interview that China summit could be delayed  —  Donald Trump has warned that Nato faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to assist in opening up the Strait of Hormuz …
Discussion: Axios and Grabien
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels  —  In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.  He's grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed …
Se Young Lee / Bloomberg:
Trump Floats Delaying Xi Summit If No Help for Hormuz, FT Says  —  Donald Trump said he could delay his planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping if Beijing doesn't help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported, citing an interview with the US president.
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump's energy chief: “No guarantees” gas prices will fall in weeks
Discussion: HuffPost and NewsMax.com
Jason Sattler / THE FARCE:
Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe
Discussion: BBC and Al Jazeera
Wall Street Journal:
Five Takeaways From WSJ's Reporting on Trump's Decision to Launch a War in Iran
Discussion: Reuters
Josh Marcus / The Independent:
Afghan who fought with US special forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for deadliest year of detention in more than two decades  —  Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
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Joey Roulette / Reuters:
Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says  —  An Afghan immigrant who previously worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan and later sought asylum in the United States died this weekend in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody less than 24 hours after being detained in Texas …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
Washington Post:
Appointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefers  —  The head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building's front entrance  —  For nearly two centuries, the White House's main entrance …
Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters' Licenses Over War Coverage  —  The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media's coverage of the war with Iran.  —  Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission …
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Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
Family of Fallen Airman Rages at Trump's ‘Uncalled For’ War  —  ‘NIGHTMARE’  —  While Trump was golfing, families were mourning.  —  The families of a servicemember killed in Donald Trump's war are pleading with the president to end the conflict in Iran—the same day he was seen golfing in West Palm Beach.
New York Times:
How Trump's Homeland Security Pick, a Prolific Investor, Got a Lot Wealthier in Congress  —  Markwayne Mullin's financial dealings take on new importance as the Senate considers his nomination to lead an agency whose budget has vastly expanded.  —  A few days after Christmas …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alexander Ward / Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive: Trump Administration Plans to Announce Coalition to Escort Ships Through Strait of Hormuz  —  The Trump administration as soon as this week plans to announce that multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition that will escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which runs along the Iranian coast, U.S. officials said.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
To Address Farm Labor Shortage, Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers … For years, the agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market as farmworkers age and fewer new immigrants and younger Americans are willing to toil in the fields.  Top Trump administration officials vowed …
Axios:
Democrats face a post-Trump identity crisis for 2028  —  Democrats are barreling toward an identity crisis: When Donald Trump is gone, they're not sure what they'll stand for.  — Top party strategists are warning they can't win back the White House in 2028 by coasting on voters' dissatisfaction with the president and MAGA.
Politico:
Taiwan reports large-scale Chinese military aircraft presence near island … Taiwan didn't report any Chinese military planes that went beyond the median line and entered the zone for a week from Feb. 27 to March 5.  After two were detected on March 6, the next four days had none.
Discussion: UPI, Reuters and Semafor
The Guardian:
Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank  —  Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip  —  Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank …
Andy Haldane / Financial Times:
Trump's ‘shock and war’ makes this economic crisis different  —  Conflict with Iran will leave deeper and more lasting scars than last year's tariffs crisis  —  The writer, an FT contributing editor, is a former chief economist at the Bank of England  —  Since the US and Israel attacked Iran …
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Neil Irwin / Axios:   The Iran war is a new test of America's economic superpower
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
The Trump health care policy red and blue states are embracing … That offer is now finding more takers, among Republicans and Democrats, as state lawmakers look for ways to keep the uninsured rate down.  Obamacare enrollment has already dropped by more than 1 million this year, with further decline expected.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream … Just a few months after Warren Buffett convened a series of high-end dinners across America to collect signatures for something called the Giving Pledge, he was feeling optimistic about his new idea for philanthropy.
Discussion: National Legal …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
MAGA ramps up pressure on Trump to dump Cornyn  —  President Trump, already at odds with many MAGA leaders over Iran, is getting pressured hard by MAGA activists not to endorse Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for reelection. … Trump was leaning toward backing Cornyn before MAGA went ballistic, officials tell Axios.
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Senate Braces for Showdown Over Trump-Backed Voter-ID Rules  —  Republicans plan drawn-out debate over the SAVE America Act, which Democrats are poised to block  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has demanded that the GOP-controlled Senate quickly pass strict new voting rules ahead of the midterms …
 
 
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John B. Judis / NOTUS:
Trump as Alexander the Great: A Theory That Explains Iran (And Everything Else)
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Democrats push Trump for more details of Iran vision as war rages on
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Senate Democrat tax plans are more populist slop and ignore national debt
Peter Giunta / The Hill:
The post-boomer GOP is coming — 2028 will define it
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
The GOP's blue-state blues
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Top US allies are turning toward China instead. Blame Trump.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Discussion: Florida Politics and Bloomberg
Paul Krugman:
Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Forget the “MAGA split” on Iran. It's the independents and soft partisans that matter.
David French / New York Times:
We Have Reached End-Stage Polarization
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America's Future
Discussion: Mediaite