Congress cannot claim it is powerless, and the world will certainly now see it as complicit.
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Faced with a choice between running or escalating, Trump targets civilians instead.
Faced with economic, military, and social failure, Trump's narcissism has him hunting for scapegoats
Trump, an idiot, has been cut off from his strategy of declaring victory and running off. He's going to make that everybody else's problem.
A recently published scientific paper shows that an often-cited claim of the 'lab leak' theory is simply not true
Ours will be the first empire to die of humiliation.
'Do you know an immigration lawyer?'
A month into the war, the Iranian regime is still in place, the world economy is plummeting toward recession, the stock market is crashing, and every U.S. military base in the Middle East is "uninhabitable." Is this winning?
The most security-indifferent cabinet in modern history against armies of hostile hackers? Seems bad.
Iran is treating the Strait of Hormuz as a "toll gate," allowing a handful of tankers to pass through after searches and steep payments to the Iranian military. Nothing suggests even a remote connection to any deal made with Trump.
Trump's major war news comes from a 2-minute daily explosions montage that avoids mention of Iranian retaliation.
Hell is a single corridor, unending, an undecorated liminal space through which you carry your luggage.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres: "Humanity has just endured the 11 hottest years on record. When history repeats itself 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act."
You could put the guy on a solid gold coin and he'd still be angry about it.
The $200B request alone would be the world's third-largest military budget, behind only the U.S. and China.
What Marco Rubio's foot canoes can tell us about U.S. military strategy overseas
Iran War Update: Not to alarm anyone, but have we considered that Donald Trump may be the Antichrist
I don't even believe in an 'antichrist'—and yet I still think this guy might be the freaking Antichrist
Corruption, corruption, and corruption.
Energy Secretary Wright and other “energy dominance” muckety-mucks dismiss the burned towns, flooded neighborhoods, disrupted harvests, displaced communities, and sea-level rise. But they cannot ignore the economics.
Trump's favorite strategy is declaring premature victory, then fleeing. An extended Hormuz shutdown removes that option.