Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the world. Plus, Coogler discusses his hit film, which received a record-breaking sixteen Oscar nominations.

The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the U.S. to pursue regime change in Iran again. And we hear from Iranians who are waiting, even hoping, for war.

The host of next month’s Academy Awards ceremony on what can go wrong on the big day, and the state of late-night television. Plus, Dhruv Khullar on new research into GLP-1 drugs.

The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown on what Trump told the Miami police and why the D.O.J. files make the public “more distrustful.” Plus, critic Richard Brody picks the year's best films.

The conservative podcaster sees self-dealing and conspiracy theories in the Trump Administration. Yet the left, he says, chronically underestimates its own transgressions.

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer, reporting from the occupied city, share interviews with the mayor, the police chief, and two citizens who were detained and interrogated.

Clare Malone on the new guard at a storied institution; and the staff writer Jason Zengerle on his new biography of Carlson, “Hated by All the Right People.”

A left-wing atheist reality TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channeling outrage with MAGA and complacent Democrats alike.

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”