To be clear from the start; the flaws in the MOU between Iran and the United States are not nearly sufficient to oppose its signing. In this case, if not always, better to end the war on bad terms than keep it going. But at the...
The Iowa legislature decided that the University of Iowa was a hive of scum and villainy liberalism. So it created a right-wing institute within the university. Called the Center for.
William Davies has a piece (gift link) about the rise of an explicitly racist radical right in UK politics. The details of this are all too familiar, despite the significantly.
Is Andy dandy? Sir Keir Starmer’s days as prime minister are numbered. The triumph of his Labour colleague and rival Andy Burnham in a by-election in the northern constituency of Makerfield on June 18th means that Sir Keir will soon face a formal challenge to his leadership—one...
Stephen Miller must be the most angry he's been since he saw an interracial couple holding hands: The idea was meant to supercharge President Trump’s mass deportation plan. Immigration and.
The practically universal reaction to the MOU across the political spectrum is that it represents something between a serious and catastrophic defeat for American foreign policy and global influence. Despite.
Well who could have predicted this? A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu,...
It remains amazing how many elite political actors approach Trump like he's a blank slate worthy of their mostly uncritical trust, even though he's a full slate whose lack of.
Sometimes I make very odd reading decisions. For example, in late March of this year, a time when I was regularly running for shelter ahead of Iranian missiles, I made.
Ball don't lie: Signed a deal accepting defeat In Versailles?[image or embed]— Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) 4:21 PM · Jun 17, 2026 Perfect, Absolutely no notes. And people say the objectives of this war weren't achieved!
Trump doesn't really understand why Herbert Hoover has the reputation for a catastrophic president, but he knows that he lost the war and he believes that he was going to.
I'm sensitive to concerns about criticizing this deal from what amounts to a hawkish position... but this is a bad deal. A bad end to a bad war is still.