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David RothkopfChicago Tribune |
Once, we had wars of choice. Today, we have wars of distraction. Call the catastrophically misguided war in Iran and the blink-and-you-missed-it war...
Donald Trump deserves exactly as much credit for the “deal” with Iran that he has announced as a spouse abuser does for announcing he will stop...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s now a big sign over the White House proclaiming its “Monster Energy.” In the images, the...
Why did four million Albanians take to the streets to protest a corrupt land deal engineered by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her...
It is now clear. It can now be revealed. Donald Trump has prepared a special 250th birthday gift for the United States of America. Trump has boldly...
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Flying back to the U.S. from Beijing, Donald Trump made it clear that he knew his state visit to China was a flop. He was in a lousy mood. In his...
This week, from the 13th to the 15th of May, the two men who have arguably done the most during this century to make China the world’s most powerful...
Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than...
America is in crisis. Indeed, the entire world is in a grave state. But stunningly, despite the constant flow of news that immerses us all daily, we...
There is no doubt that JD Vance is one of the smuggest, smarmiest politicians in modern American history. And that is saying a great deal, given that...
It is well known that Donald Trump covets titles, awards and honors. After all, you do not acquire the FIFA Peace Prize, the first and only trophy for...
Donald Trump has apparently decided that being heavily linked to a notorious sex trafficker, while bad enough to make him want to start a war to...
We will never be able to unsee the monster Trump revealed on Tuesday morning with his genocidal threat to destroy Iran’s “civilization.” The...
The President of the United States is a monster. At shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump threatened to annihilate a nation of over 90...
Pete Hegseth wants us to call him the Secretary of War. One problem with that idea is that it’s not up to him. The name of the Department he is...
If you comb the stockyards of Chicago and search all the cattlelands of America’s great prairies, if you go from the hillsides on which attentive...
For a man with the emotional maturity of a three-year-old and the foresight of a newt, Donald Trump is nonetheless a pretty terrible president. He...
Just when you think we have lost the plot, we get a glimmer of hope that we have not. The estimated 9 million people who took to the streets in more...
Trump’s Iran war is a fiasco. Undertaken without adequate planning by a president deaf to the advice of experts, there is no meaningful measure by...
I remember sitting in a hospital room following the birth of my younger daughter watching reports of the early days of the first Gulf War. The U.S....
If you took every true thing President Donald Trump said during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and tattooed it onto the genitalia of a flea,...
Donald Trump on Friday attacked the Supreme Court majority that ruled against him in a landmark decision on tariffs with a venom and ferocity he has...
Spoiler alert: No one has the slightest idea who the Democratic candidate for president will be in 2028. Including me. But that doesn’t mean it’s...
No, our commander-in-chief is not a hysterical little girl who sees monsters hiding under her bed or in the back of every closet she passes....