Iran now has a lock on ships going into and out of the Persian Gulf, where they pick up oil, fertilizer, helium, aluminum, and other things necessary to the world economy. What would it take to break that lock? This question is often put as “What...
Sean Ferigan - Unsplash This New York Times headline is 100% accurate: Trump Airs a House Republican’s Terminal Diagnosis, Claiming to Have Reversed It For weeks on Capitol Hill, there.
Andrew Gelman and I have yet to give up the moody brooding about what the continuing social respectability of hardcore reactionary Catholic integralist, and therefore under current conditions functional crypto.
Damn shame the Peace President is distracted by, um, his wars: At least 400 people were killed and 250 others injured on Monday night after a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul, Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack of the three-month conflict...
Leon-Pascal Jc - Unsplash War correspondent Emanuel Fabian probably isn't the first reporter gamblers have tried to pressure into fabricating an article. But he might be the first to report.
This is the grave of Theodore Weld. Born in 1803 in Hampton, Connecticut, Weld came from old Puritan stock and had at least some money, with his father a pretty.
If you want to be a federal prosecutor, the question is now moot: The Justice Department has waived a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to possess at least one year of experience practicing law, as US attorneys’ offices struggle to find qualified replacements following mass...
I would guess that this is not going to hold up, but I will take the respite of sanity while it exists: In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health.
Every day the madness is accelerating. The American public is not paying attention because it never pays attention until gas hits five dollars a gallon, which is already happening in.
I pointed out two weeks ago that this was exactly what was going to happen, which is about as impressive a feat as beating a three-year-old in a game of tic-tac-toe so I'm not highlighting it on the cv or anything: By "unbelievable" I assume the...
It sure is fortunate that only 8 years after we dodged the bullet of getting a president who did not take information security practices seriously enough, we avoided getting a.
Donald Trump started his war against Iran without considering Iran’s favorable position just north of the Strait of Hormuz, which ships must traverse after they’ve loaded up with oil or.