The explosion last night in England, at the Manchester Arena, occurred just as fans and their families were leaving a concert. The venue, which was playing host to Ariana Grande, seats more than twenty thousand guests. In the initial confusion, some Read More …
Like a person who has spent more than a decade sitting in the same spot, never moving, staring at a computer screen, and waiting desperately for a Web site to refresh, the New York Knicks, blurry-eyed and sore, may have Read More …
In death, Liu Xiaobo’s name has gained a new power even beyond that which it achieved in life. Liu was China’s sole winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and was in prison for pieces of writing that the Communist Party Read More …
Over the past half century, the United States has fought only one big war—in Kuwait, in 1991—that was a conventional conflict. Operation Desert Storm launched a U.S.-led coalition against the Iraqi Army after it occupied oil-rich Kuwait. The combat was Read More …
Click:Canada nicotine Pouches For anyone who remembers the name-calling that characterized the repartee between “little” Marco Rubio and Donald (Small Hands) Trump during last year’s Republican primary campaign, it is more than a little surprising to see them now celebrating Read More …
In 1999, Yuri Skuratov, then Russia’s top prosecutor, was investigating corruption inside the Kremlin. Then, a grainy sex tape surfaced that showed a man who resembled Skuratov with two young women in a hotel room. After Russian TV aired the Read More …
Over the past few months, as the size of the Islamic State’s caliphate rapidly shrunk, the Pentagon began citing the number of enemy dead as an important barometer of longer-term success. “We have killed, in conservative estimates, sixty thousand to Read More …
On Sunday, just hours after three men launched an assault on London Bridge, British Prime Minister Theresa May stepped in front of 10 Downing Street and told the world, “We believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face.” In Read More …
On Tuesday, Roy Moore arrived at his polling place, in Gallant, Alabama, wearing a cowboy hat and riding a horse named Sundance. Polls were showing him with a comfortable lead in the Republican primary for Jeff Sessions’s old seat in Read More …
Max Boot, a lifelong conservative who advised three Republican Presidential candidates on foreign policy, keeps a folder labelled “Trump Stupidity File” on his computer. It’s next to his “Trump Lies” file. “Not sure which is larger at this point,” he Read More …