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Trump: The sudden anti-war champion?

Last week President Donald Trump surprised the world, and much of his own staff, by announcing plans to pull more than 2,000 US troops...

Screen Grabs: Our favorite movies of the year (and what’s on now)

SCREEN GRABS As 2018 comes to a close, we can pause and reflect that as so often is the case, what was a pretty...

Sex, Russia, and impeachment

NEW YORK --America's largest city is abuzz over the latest revelations about Donald Trump's crimes. I'm here on A book tour discussing Iran, but...

Israel loses politically in Gaza battle

Earlier this week the Israeli military and armed groups in Gaza clashed in the worst fighting since their 2014 war. Israeli planes bombed Palestinians,...

Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...

Murder of Saudi journalist builds opposition to Yemen war

The murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has backfired on the Saudi royal family by focusing new attention on its vicious war on...

Screen Grabs: Suspiria, Boy Erased, The Wild Pussycat …

SCREEN GRABS It being Halloweek, it would be just plain wrong not to lead off with a horror film, and as it happens Friday...

What the Khashoggi case tells us about terrorism

ISTANBUL -- In 2013, an Iranian national living in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison for planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador...

Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump — jockeying for power in Syria

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Russian bombs rained down on towns of southern Syria as an estimated 320,000 civilians fled for their lives. Over the past several...

Foreign correspondent: What will Iran do now?

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT President Donald Trump announced that the US is pulling out of the Iran nuclear accord--and Iranians are really pissed. Thousands of Iranians demonstrated...