After the killing of Iran Gen. Qassem Soleimani, it's time for America to leave Iraq
The United States may have been justified in killing Soleimani, but that doesn't mean it was wise for President Trump to do so.
The United States may have been justified in killing Soleimani, but that doesn't mean it was wise for President Trump to do so.
The United States may have been justified in killing Soleimani, but that doesn't mean it was wise for President Trump to do so.
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It's not easy being an atheist raised in a devoutly Catholic culture. But in the San Gabriel Valley, you don't have to doubt God's existence all alone.
On Iraq and Iran — and in the Middle East generally — America's hawkish establishment has gotten just about all the important questions wrong. The hawks have been mistaken about so much for generations now, both strategically and morally. It is time to stop listening to them.
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Tenants living in mold-infested public housing might finally have cause for hope.
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Samantha Stosur has lifted her Brisbane curse in fine fashion, toppling former world No.1 Angelique Kerber to reach the second round of her home event for just the second time in seven years.
While I do wear all the outfits I feature in outfit posts... sometimes there's a little switcheroo. For this look, I wore it with sneakers and then switched to heels for the photoshoot. The heels are quite comfortable, but a bit too dressy for hitting Whole Foods! I also wore this same exact look with sneakers to a family holiday get together. You've also seen these pants before ...
Should all viruses be considered villains? In this feature, we meet bacteriophages. These viruses live in us and on us and easily outnumber bacteria.
Used in Mexico City and in Reno, Nevada, Streetmix allows users to experiment and participate in the design of their streets. This bottom-up approach is a participatory tool that can include everyone in the decision making, without particular technical knowledge.
In 2019, NASA accelerated its plans to return to the Moon under a program now called Artemis. Jeff Foust reports that NASA will have to overcome a number of challenges, financial and otherwise, to stay on track in 2020.
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The former two-division titleholder isn’t concerned about the state of his hands.
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A family doctor working in southern Manitoba is helping save his patients thousands of dollars on prescription medications thanks to the work of local researchers — and he wants other physicians to do the same.
It was a Broadway fixture. Now it’s a big-screen fiasco. Could it become a stoner classic?
In a time long before the Internet, back when a television set functioned as living room decor as well as family entertainment, children often whiled away their leisure hours in the great outdoors.
Warfare History Network
Security, Middle East
Get your history book out.
Key Point: A truly fruitless war.
The world awoke to ominous news on September 22, 1980. Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein had launched a massive armored and air attack across the Iraq-Iran border. Believing that his Islamic fundamentalist neighbor to the east had been weakened by the ongoing revolutionary turmoil that in February 1979 had toppled the Shah, Hussein was confident that his forces would... Читать дальше...
Seaborne coking coal prices moved up on Monday January 6 with sentiment among steel mills in China and the rest of Asia reported to be positive.
West Brom goalkeeper Sam Johnston has been nominated for Championship player of the month for December.
In 2011, when I lived in Milwaukee, the only job I held for more than a couple days was working the lunch rush at a gyro cart downtown. I was paid $60 a day plus tips, all in cash. One day, in an attempt to feel a little less adrift in life, I opened a checking account at a chain bank across the street from my workplace and received a debit card. Yet, I rarely used the checking account or debit card, and balance often hovered around $10.
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Joe Biden has been through impeachment before.
Not the oversexed and overhyped Bill Clinton variety, but the real 1974 Richard Nixon smoking-gun version. And for Biden, these were moments that transcended partisanship and called for national unity.
Biden was in the Capitol cheering when Jerry Ford, in his first speech to Congress, broke with the divisiveness of the Nixon years and pledged to be president of all the people—including “women’s liberationists and male chauvinists.”
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Nearly two decades ago, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the then-doughy dictator of Kazakhstan, came hat-in-hand to the George W. Bush White House, desperate to make a deal. The post-Soviet strongman had a problem: The Department of Justice (DOJ) had accused Nazarbayev of gob-smacking bribery. Per the DOJ, the Kazakh leader had put the squeeze on a range of hydrocarbon companies, hoping to tap the country’s vast oil wealth. Those companies reciprocated by funnelling tens of million of dollars to Kazakhstan’s kleptocrat-in-chief. Читать дальше...
Plus: an update on “I’m Not a Monster Anymore.”
As tensions with Iran worsen, the post-9/11 homeland-security playbook is coming back. But hypervigilance against vague threats is more useless than ever.
In the latest episode of the 'Ad Lib' podcast, the producer-rapper discusses his role as music jury president at Cannes, growing up in Haiti and life after the Fugees.