National Security

Trump has been acting like a bank robber who beat one rap because of a technicality, and so decides to rob every bank in sight.

Any involvement by Barr in digging up dirt on a Trump opponent would be an extraordinary political intervention by the top U.S. law enforcement official.

Many observers now seem to think this suddenly hot story came out of nowhere this year, but that is not true.

“We’re not getting answers to basic questions, like who the U.S. has killed and why it hasn’t better protected civilians.”

In this excerpt from his memoir, the NSA whistleblower describes his realization that no one should have to “pretend to be perfect.”

Barr has been a strong proponent of the “unitary executive,” a legal theory that states the president has near absolute authority over the executive branch.

Trump wants the island prison to stay open indefinitely, leaving aging detainees in deteriorating facilities at the mercy of supercharged hurricanes.

As he threatened to bomb Iran at Saudi Arabia’s behest, Trump also intensified his battle with objective reality, by denying his own prior comments.

Not only do conflicts leave a poisoned landscape in their wake, but the U.S. military has a larger carbon footprint than most countries on earth.

Trump noted that the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 sent foreign leaders a lesson: Disarmament can lead to your own personal doom.