[aggregation-styles] Fox News I don't blame President Trump for his angst and bitterness over his impeachment by the House of Representatives. In his mind, he has done "nothing wrong" and not acted outside the constitutional powers vested in him and so his impeachment should not have come to pass. He...

[aggregation-styles] The Sun SACRAMENTO – Stamping out incorrect social-media information is like trying to halt those computer viruses that multiply bad files every time you close one. You can sometimes convince someone that the story isn’t quite right – only to see it pop up on myriad other feeds. After...

[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield.com The Central Valley had Sacramento’s attention in two noteworthy ways last week. Representatives of the governor’s office were in Bakersfield listening to locals talk about the economic importance, and permeating identity, of the Kern County oil industry, which Gov. Gavin Newsom apparently intends to eradicate from the face...

[aggregation-styles] NBC News: THINK In recent years, several states have enacted legislation to use the power of government to stifle boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements. These laws not only violate the First Amendment; they also open the door to much broader government control of public discourse, something that all...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump’s “phase one” trade deal with China is largely a victory for Beijing. Just measure the agreement signed this week against the initial demands made by Washington in a leaked May 2018 document. As the Financial Times concludes, with regard to the central U.S....

[aggregation-styles] CNBC There is another story about the killing of an Iranian general. And unlike Qasem Soleimani, he wasn’t an enemy of the U.S. In fact, as one of the top ranking military officials in Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s regime, he was an important ally. He was my grandfather. Major...

[aggregation-styles] Wayback Machine BOOK REVIEW — All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen Kinzer In the summer of 1953, the CIA and Britain's MI6 arranged a coup in Tehran. The Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, appeared to be opening his country...

[aggregation-styles] The Week For three years, President Trump has tried to disentangle the United States from the burdens of world leadership. This week, it appears he has succeeded. One of the most notable aspects of the crisis between the United States and Iran is how little the international community rallied...

[aggregation-styles] The Christian Science Monitor Blindsided. Exposed. Anxious. Exasperated. Such are Gulf Arab leaders as they fly to Washington, Tehran, and European capitals to contain the fallout from the U.S. assassination of an Iranian general they saw as their mortal enemy but whose killing was a red line they could...