Civil War

America’s ‘luck’ is running out: The lost industrial engine that powered US greatness - opinion

America’s rise was driven by production and innovation, and its decline may begin with its loss.

A general view of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2025.
A woman walks next to a banner with a picture of Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, May 8, 2026.

Iran's Supreme Leader warns of Israeli, US divisions threatening regime, undermining 'resilience'

A portrait of a Hezbollah fighter is seen damaged amidst the rubble of a building damaged by an Israeli air-strike in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh, on April 20, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Hezbollah still strong enough to drag Lebanon into civil war, expert warns

Kim Aris, the son of Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, delivers a speech during a protest rally organized by Myanmar people residing in Japan outside Myanmar's embassy in Tokyo, Japan, December 14, 2025.

Myanmar to free more than 4,000 prisoners in amnesty


Historian sheds light on famous story about Abraham Lincoln, New York cantor

A new book untangles one of the best-known incidents involving Jews in the American Civil War.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S Second Inaugural Address, Arthur Szyk, 1946.

Over third of Israelis fear judicial reform will lead to civil war - poll

About 60% of Israelis from all backgrounds and political factions think the judicial system will lead to violence of any kind.

 Israelis protest against the proposed changes to the legal system, in Tel Aviv, on January 28, 2023

Yariv Levin, like Menachem Begin, can stop a Jewish civil war in Israel - analysis

Like his literal godfather Menachem Begin, Yariv Levin has the power to defuse a combustible situation that could conceivably lead to internecine violence in Israel.

 Former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Justice Minister Yariv Levin. The two both had the chance to stop a Jewish civil war.

Who wants an Israeli civil war?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Millions feel targeted, collectively and personally, as Israel’s judicial pillars teeter and its political nerves fray.

 THOUSANDS OF protesters against the new Netanyahu government and its proposed reforms gather outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

It's time for Herzog to step up to the plate

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: With extreme voices dominating the public debate, the measured voice of the president needs to be heard loudly.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind him, approaches the members of the new government last month at the President’s Residence.

A civil war is not a joke – Israelis need to wake up - opinion

EDITOR'S NOTES: The thought that this latest experiment in Jewish sovereignty will be in jeopardy because of internal discord should shake us all at our core.

 Israeli Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2020. Are these images coming back?

The US's convulsive period of reckoning echoes the civil war - opinion

Thirty-five hundred Northern soldiers are buried in the Gettysburg cemetery – out of 23,000 Northern troops who perished in this costliest battle in the American Civil War.

 THE STATE of Pennsylvania Monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.

Hanukkah: Will Netanyahu's gov't cause Israeli civil war? - opinion

Will the theocratic extremism of Smotrich, Maoz and Goldknopf result in another civil war between the Jews? Will our enemies take advantage of our infighting?

 UTJ CHAIRMAN Yitzhak Goldknopf: Interested in finance, not mathematics.

Spain exhumes 53 bodies from Franco dictatorship's shallow graves

Years later, Spanish citizens still mourning deaths of loved ones from the Civil War.

 The remains of bodies that have been shot in 1937 by forces of dictator Francisco Franco are seen during the exhumation of a mass grave at Los Martires cemetery in Huesca

Lapid’s civil-war incitement won’t work - opinion

Lapid, Gantz and the rest of the “anybody but Bibi” politicians and pundits have been doubling down on the very behavior responsible for their poor showing at the ballot box.

 Israeli Prime Minister and Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December05, 2022.