Mike Pompeo Is Donald Trump's De Facto Intelligence Czar
The secretary of state is supposed to be a customer of the intelligence community, not its master.
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Remembering Mark Kleiman, a Relentlessly Thoughtful Scholar of Drug Policy
Kleiman, a defender of nuanced drug policy, was an important influence on America’s slow, unsteady move away from the all-out war on drugs.
Congress and the Press Should Pick Up Where Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Left Off
The anticlimactic end of the Trump-Russia investigation is partly due to decades of bitter political battles over what powers to grant special prosecutors.
Why an "AI Race" Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea
We don’t need to win this nationalistic race — especially when we don’t even know what’s at the finish line.
Racism Is an Impeachable Offense
He’d be fired from any other major corporation for this dangerous tomfoolery.
Acosta Says Epstein Deal Was in a “Different World” — But His Labor Department Still Makes Trafficking Victims Suffer
At the Department of Labor, Alex Acosta continues to ensure that those vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation are made more vulnerable still.
The Problem at Fox News Is Not Just Tucker Carlson — It's the Murdoch Family Who Owns and Controls the Network
It’s not enough to criticize the racist anchors on Fox News. The Murdoch family is responsible for what happens there. Let’s talk about them.
Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It's With Her Own Party's Future
It is time for liberals and leftists who lambast Mitch McConnell to admit to themselves that the hippie-punching Pelosi has become a Trump enabler too.
With Record Numbers of Displaced People, Deterrence Policies to Stop Their Movement Are Mass Murder
More of the planet is becoming unlivable. A refusal to open borders, or at least make them more porous, will be unconscionable.
The World’s Leaders Are Terrible. Let’s Declare Our Independence From All of Them.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that even the best Leaders are Self-Absorbed Prima Donnas, and the rest are seriously Craze-o Lunatics.