Trump Turned His Back on Syrian Kurds. Here's How They View Their New Precarious Position.
A Turkish incursion into Syria’s Kurdish northeast could bring a humanitarian crisis and reshape the region’s geopolitics.
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Trump's Attacks on the Press Fuel Harassment of Journalists at the Border
The bastard child of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to help fight terrorism. All it really did was enhance executive power.
The U.S. Is Now Betraying the Kurds for the Eighth Time
Nothing in this world is certain except death, taxes, and America betraying the Kurds.
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Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?
The U.S. Army has faced almost no resistance to bases named for prominent white supremacists.
All the President’s Crimes
Text Messages Show the Trump-Zelensky Call Had Just One Goal — And It Was Anything but Routine
A summary of the infamous conversation could lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment, but these text messages reveal for the first time how the call came about.
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Impeachment Scandal Shows Why Congress Desperately Needs to Reform What’s Kept Secret
The Trump administration is again potentially abusing government secrecy — this time in an effort to distract from impeachment and punish rivals.
A New Satire of FBI Terrorism Stings Draws Its Characters From Real Cases
In Chris Morris’s “The Day Shall Come,” the absurdity is not far removed from reality.
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Donald Trump's Call With Ukrainian Leader, One Day After Robert Mueller's Congressional Testimony, Shows the President Is a Brazen Criminal
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.
All the President’s Crimes
Trump-Ukraine Call Puts Attorney General William Barr in the Hot Seat
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.
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I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down.
Many observers now seem to think this suddenly hot story came out of nowhere this year, but that is not true.