My colleague at Balloon Juice, Adam Silverman, makes an excellent observation: This contempt hearing is not just intended to hold Meadows in contempt, it is intended to disturb the network around Trump and see what happens without disrupting or taking down that network....Fox News’s Brian...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Between April and June of this year, Iran’s talks with the P5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany with the EU as well) progressed to a point where an.
Update: In response to some of the comments, I did a reverse image search. I find it only on Twitter, so it is probably a fake. But, as some are.
Nobody knows. But Russia has been deploying troops around its border with Ukraine, particularly around the Donbas, the area where Russia has been carrying on a small war since late 2014. Earlier that year, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine. The latest buildup,...
Some of you pointed out yesterday that I was conflating debt limit issues with a lack of a budget. You were right! But my point was different. It was that.
We’re coming up to the middle of December, and the government is running out of money. The United States has an absurd piece of legislation, left over from World War.
Back in September, I developed a simple model to predict how many more Americans would die from COVID-19. Over this long weekend, I updated the model with numbers from the New York Times on Friday, November 26. As I entered the numbers and watched the...
Over the weekend, Samuel Charap, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, published his thoughts on the situation in Ukraine. Russia has been building up troops along the Ukraine border.
Now that we are out of Afghanistan and have declared the Forever Wars over, a number of people are eagerly pushing their favorites for the next war. Alexander Lukashenka, who.
Russia has been massing (not amassing) troops along the Ukrainian border and encouraging Belarus's dictator, Alexander Lukashenka, to push Middle Eastern refugees across the Polish, Lithuanian, and Latvian borders. Today's show of force was a demonstration of an antisatellite weapon to blow up an old...
A member of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces assists a group of people leaving Baghuz, Syria — the last Islamic State-controlled area — in March 2019. Credit...Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse —.
As I tossed and turned last night trying to get to sleep despite thoughts of anti-vaxxers wearing yellow stars and attacking school boards, I started to wonder how many of.