When Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley goes before Congress on Sept. 28, he may face some of the most hostile questioning of any modern four-star general.Driving the news: Newly released excerpts from “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa – detailing secret moves by the nation’s highest-ranking military officers to manage national security risks that he perceived Donald Trump posed in the final days of his presidency – are driving questions about whether Milley went too far.
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Remembering one of the funniest comedians of all time
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A key group of Democratic senators, including centrist Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), introduced a new voting rights bill on Tuesday that would expand access to the ballot for millions of Americans, ban partisan gerrymandering, and crack down on dark money groups. It’s expected to receive a vote in the Senate as soon as next week, setting up a showdown with Republicans who intend to block it and a reckoning within the Democratic caucus over whether to reform the filibuster to pass it.
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Plenty of people have pointed out what went wrong in Afghanistan, but far too few people have asked who should now be held accountable for this national disgrace.
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A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases.
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Why would any person of intelligence and character put his or her life at risk to defend a country controlled by a leadership class that continually derides or ignores tens of millions of Americans, along with their needs, their convictions, and their concerns?
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The marked decline in support for President Biden and his administration nationally and in key swing states indicates that the Democratic Party could endure a blowout defeat in the 2022 midterm elections.
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The signs are not good for Democrats hoping to hang onto their current Washington trifecta in the 2022 midterms. Actually, midterm prospects are never good for parties controlling the White House, unless the president involved has very high job-approval ratings (like Bill Clinton in 1998 and George W. Bush in 2002) and/or something weird is going on (like a gratuitous Republican impeachment effort in 1998 and the aftermath of 9/11 in 2002).
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In 2019, I wrote a book called “The Media Matrix” and subtitled it pessimistically, “What If Everything You Know Is Fake?” Now, two years later, we can remove the question mark. Everything you know is fake – if you depend on the mainstream media to educate you.
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The president’s line in the sand has Republican governors angry – but saving lives is worth it.
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There are 6,163,001 reasons for California voters to recall Gavin Newsom on Tuesday.
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All but erased from public life, he is making a mistake by announcing a presidential run so early.
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When Drew and Marlene Proctor left their Jersey Shore, Pa., home to take their three-week trip across the back roads of the country for their honeymoon, they relished different sightings all along their journey.
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If the task force commissions a school curriculum about slavery in the state, Californians will see more clearly how the past informs the present.
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The architect of the Flight 93 National Memorial explains why it was built to allow a multiplicity of interpretations.
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