The president told us as a candidate he wanted to do this. Now we may know why.
Bashar al-Assad
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“Animal Assad”? Seriously?
Look, I know it’s WrestleMania weekend, but the WWE-style insults have to stop: President Donald Trump issued a vague threat on Twitter on Sunday, after reports of a chemical attack in Syria. “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria,” Trump wrote. “Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by […]
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Casualties of War
Forty years ago this Tuesday, President Jimmy Carter nailed it going away in a nationally televised address. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It’s a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it’s likely to get […]
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The Fourth Estate Has an Obligation to Question Trump’s Motives in Syria
Last week, after the Washington Post published a bizarre story suggesting that the Trump administration had come around to supporting both a federal value-added tax and a carbon tax, Kevin Drum labeled the story bullpucky: Sure they are. This sounds more like a strategic leak to demonstrate “seriousness” on Trump’s part than anything that’s really […]
