Money Trail
This week, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released a report that outlined how the Pentagon spent nearly $43 million on building a gas station in the Afghan...
View ArticleMountain Ambush
On November 24, a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber near the border of Turkey and Syria. In the immediate aftermath, officials from the two countries offered contradictory...
View ArticleTrump’s Tomatoes
According to the Washington Post, guests on Donald Trump’s luxurious personal 757 jet—gold-plated seat-belt buckles!—who get peckish and order a burger are served Wendy’s. It would have to be Wendy’s....
View ArticleA Policy of Hypocrisy
In April, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump revealed to voters his plan to compel Mexico to pay for the construction of a wall on the southern border of the United States: he’d regulate...
View ArticleUnjust Cause
This post was updated on May 27, 2016, to incorporate Barack Obama’s remarks at Hiroshima. As advertised, President Obama did not apologize for the U.S. nuclear strike that destroyed the city of...
View ArticleSlow Crash
Two years before the 2008 Wall Street crash that toppled the global economy into deep recession, Harper’s Magazine published a dark prophecy of what was to come. In “The New Road to Serfdom,” economist...
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Crime and Punishment
Meeting with the leaders of NATO countries in May, President Trump chastised them sternly for their shortcomings as allies. He took the time, however, to make respectful reference to the ruler of Saudi...
View ArticleSo Goes Hodeida, So Goes Yemen
As the world’s media is consumed with the unfolding saga of the brutal torture and murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi regime, that same regime doggedly pursues a criminal...
View ArticleNorthern Aggression
Thanks to Donald Trump’s pre-election decision to send approximately fifty-nine hundred active-duty troops to “defend” the United States from a few thousand destitute refugees fleeing Honduras,...
View ArticleTo Know the Disease
For the third time in thirty years, we are in the midst of a debate over the American health care system, this time against the backdrop of the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination race....
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