The strangest part is that this has happened under Cohen, whose fortune was supposed to transform the Mets into a perennial juggernaut alongside the free-spending Dodgers and New York Yankees. (Because of their deferred contracts, the Dodgers have a higher payroll than the Mets for purposes of the luxury tax.) Meanwhile, after 11 losses in a row, the team is left facing a disheartening reality. The new Mets might cost a lot more, but they bear a shocking resemblance to the old Mets.

 

The Mets Have Turned Into a $360 Million Mess

Despite entering the season with baseball’s largest payroll, the team has lost 11 consecutive games and is in danger of falling out of contention in April

By 

Jared Diamond

April 20, 2026 7:00 am ET

Logic Demands an Iran Deal. Will Trump’s Fantasies Allow One? In the logical world that markets seem to believe will prevail in the Middle East, this war will end — and soon — because there’s little realistic prospect of either side winning a decisive victory by restarting the conflict. The costs of trying, meanwhile, range from punitive to ruinous.

 

Logic Demands an Iran Deal. Will Trump’s Fantasies Allow One?

By Marc Champion

Marc Champion is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

The genius of post-1945 U.S. foreign policy was in embedding America’s awesome power in a framework of international institutions and law in which all nations, large and small, could participate and benefit. It was far from perfect and coincided with plenty of episodes of imperialist intervention. But the strategy overall paid off for the United States. It cushioned the reality of American dominance, legitimated American power and produced an order broadly consistent with American interests. All these advantages are now being abandoned. The Trump administration is destroying any remaining faith that the United States can be trusted to exercise power responsibly.

 

The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong

By Stewart Patrick

Dr. Patrick directs the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

There is no explanation other than God

 

Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything | Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour

As someone in the word business, I’m often asked to weigh in on the question of literature and artificial intelligence. People are usually surprised when I admit that I love A.I. I use A.I. for everything, 24/7. I can’t get enough, me and my whole family. My uncle uses A.I. to buy onions. It used to be you wanted onions, you went to the store and maybe it was full of people, or it was empty — you literally never knew. Now A.I. can calculate when the grocery store is low-traffic, and my uncle just strolls in, la-di-da, and buys onions, no waiting. Imagine a world where you don’t have to wait to buy onions. It’s here.

 

Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

By Colson Whitehead

Mr. Whitehead is the author of the forthcoming novel “Cool Machine.”

But just as striking was the simple math of munitions. American and Israeli forces were destroying quite a lot of Iranian targets, both military and civilian. But they were doing so with extremely expensive weaponry and depleting fragile stockpiles. Perhaps the Iranians were doing less damage, but they were doing it much more cheaply, with what seemed like a bountiful supply of low-cost drones, missiles and mines. How long had it taken Americans to realize they’d gotten stuck in quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan? In this war of choice, conducted largely by air, the fearsome U.S. military had gotten trapped in a war of attrition within the very first week.

The “flying lawn mowers” that ground down a superpower’s war machine

By David Wallace-Wells

 

The Gulf conflict demonstrates what American forces can achieve from a position of strength. Ukraine has shown what war looks like from a more vulnerable position, when that strength is contested at scale. The performance of our forces should inspire confidence. The lessons of Ukraine should instill urgency. We will need both.

 

America’s Success Against Iran May Prove a Distraction

Ukraine gives us a preview of the future of warfare. Our leaders would be wise to learn its lessons.

By 

David H. Petraeus

April 15, 2026 2:53 pm ET