After the Biden administration launched airstrikes targeting an Iranian-backed militia in Syria and Iraq, military historian Andrew Bacevich says the United States needs to reassess its decades-long hostility toward Iran. “The demonization of Iran is now a well-established reality of our contemporary politics. It’s a mistake,” he says.
Donald Rumsfeld, considered the chief architect of the Iraq War, has died at the age of 88. As defense secretary for both Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, Rumsfeld presided, his critics say, over systemic torture, massacres of civilians and illegal wars. We look at Rumsfeld’s legacy with retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, whose son was killed in Iraq. Bacevich is the president of the antiwar think tank the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
She says I stole it from her stillborn daughter.
Teacher advice on moving, math advancement, and IEPs.
Federal health officials are weighing how to implement the lessons they have learned from this pandemic to prepare for the next one.
“If you look at some of those old pictures of Oklahoma City, it’s the same exact scenes you’re seeing today in Florida.
Every plausible explanation for the tragedy in Surfside.
Forget the inflation scolds. Ignore the small-business Scrooges. There’s a very different story in the data.
The alleged “grave incident” in North Korea’s pandemic fight was not specified.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren’t working.
Just as Americans began returning to life in public again, disaster struck the people of Champlain Towers South at home.
I’m not sure how to proceed.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
In the news today: More than half of the Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to continue honoring racist traitors. And in other news, almost all of those House Republicans voted against an investigation into racist traitors who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Failed human being Rudolph Giuliani was facing questions of corruption long before being added to Donald Trump’s advisory team. In 2017, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman wanted to know exactly what job the former New York City mayor had on the legal team of Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab. Zarrab, an Iranian and Turkish national, was arrested on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran. In its most simple form, Zarrab reportedly used U.S.
Sisterhood and women supporting women is a thing and we’re all here for it. Simone Biles is headed back to the Olympics, her second one as the world’s most decorated gymnast but that’s not all: Biles will be joined by friend Jordan Chiles. This year’s 2021 Olympics will be Chiles’ first Olympics; Securing a spot on Team USA came as a proud moment not just for Chiles but Biles who supported the athlete as an older sister.
In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker, a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war. This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me, probably because my writing had not been friendly and the administration listened only to what it wanted to hear.
Republican state cutoffs of federal unemployment aid are drawing some pushback. In Wisconsin, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would have ended the unemployment aid supplement, while in other states workers are suing to block the benefits cut-offs.
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Bill Cosby is a free man again. The disgraced comedian, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, today saw his court verdict overturned on a technicality.Cosby’s case remains one of the most high-profile of the #MeToo movement.
Pennsylvania Republicans want to change the state’s voting laws, but they have one major hurdle: Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
So instead of mounting a legislative campaign that could sway some of their Democratic colleagues and potentially avoid Wolf’s veto pen, they’re resorting to what has traditionally been a little-used tactic to amend the state constitution.
Jim Acosta asked the question during an event in Weslaco, Texas, featuring Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and the former president.
Rumsfeld became known for his unfailing support for the Iraq War, as well as the Bush administration’s torture of detainees.
I don’t know what to do now.
The change could allow thousands of people whose relatives died early in the pandemic, before reliable testing was commonplace, to access the funeral aid program
I’m not sure she’ll understand.
Six months and 500 arrests into the Jan. 6 probe, a motley crew of online sleuths is generating leads, making connections, and keeping the feds on their toes.