[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Recent developments show that Iran is succumbing to international pressure — just not the kind the Trump administration has been exerting in the form of economic sanctions. Last week, in surprise reversals of two long-standing policies, Iranian women were — for the first time —...
Bloomberg Law Retracts Story on Labor Department Appointee Leif Olson
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump finally got to see the kind of military parade he longed for. Unfortunately for him, it was in Beijing, not Washington. You will recall that in 2018, Trump directed the Pentagon to put on a lavish show of arms to demonstrate America’s might....
The Two Psychological Tricks Trump Is Using to Get Away With Everything
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription Last Thursday, Donald Trump said something that, on its face, seemed inexplicably self-defeating. Already under attack for having asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, he publicly asked China to do the same. This time there was no whistle-blower forcing Trump’s hand. Having already transgressed the once-sacrosanct...
Rudy Giuliani Welcomes You To Eastern Europe
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried...
Free Speech Is Killing Us
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried...
Trump Loves Xi’s Military Parades. They Don’t Give the Full Picture.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription President Trump finally got to see the kind of military parade he longed for. Unfortunately for him, it was in Beijing, not Washington. You will recall that in 2018, Trump directed the Pentagon to put on a lavish show of arms to demonstrate America’s might....
Annexing the Jordan Valley Doesn’t Make Security Sense
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan included two clauses whose security importance is as great and perhaps greater than the demilitarization of the Sinai Peninsula in the peace treaty with Egypt. These clauses turn Kahol Lavan chairman MK Benny Gantz’s intention and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
An Open Letter to John Kasich: Please Challenge Trump
[aggregation-styles] Post Alley Subscription Former Ohio governor John Kasich has been the most prominent and consistent Republican critic of Donald Trump, but he’s shying away from the necessary (and patriotic) mission of a lifetime–challenging Trump for the 2020 GOP nomination. He’s told his top political staff to stop planning for...
Why Are Israel's Top Holocaust Scholars So Willing to Deny This Genocide?
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The Potocari memorial center sits amidst lush countryside and thickly forested hills. On a hot summer’s day, the scent of cut grass and clover drifts over the graveyard where thousands of plain white tombstones stretch out into the distance. Each year on July 11, the memorial day for...
Looks Like Kamala Harris Isn’t a Shoo-in to Win California’s Primary After All
[aggregation-styles] The Los Angeles Times Subscription SACRAMENTO — OK, I admit it: A column I wrote three months ago was a real loser. That’s because I predicted California Sen. Kamala Harris would be a big winner in her own state’s presidential primary. But two statewide polls show her falling far...