I spoke with Newt Gingrich at The Washington Post last Friday for the latest installment of The Daily 202’s live interview series. The former speaker of the House, who had huddled with Donald J. Trump the night before at Trump Tower, spoke candidly about the president-elect’s leadership style, the three power centers that will exist in his White House and
The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books («Whose Sarin?» and «The Red Line and the Rat Line») has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that Obama was trying to use as an excuse to invade Syria; and Hersh pointed to a report from
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By Anthony Slater - On Friday, Steve Kerr did what he does every day. He scrolled his phone, surfed the web and searched for NBA headlines. He saw some of the usual stuff, but, also, one plastered everywhere that caught his eye: Kerr uses pot. “I don’t think it’s a big deal,” Kerr said. “But I do find it ironic
President-elect Trump’s choice of General Mattis for Secretary of Defense is a well balanced decision. He is an ideal experienced choice. However, because of an earlier balanced statement he made about Israel’s apartheid treatment of Palestinians may call into question his approval in the Senate. Watch for the actions of Senator Schumer, the Democratic Minority Leader and the position of
Could a German-style approach to health insurance get the US out of the conundrum of paying more and receiving uneven results for health care? Obamacare – or more accurately, the U.S. health insurance system, as it currently stands and regulated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – is becoming a nightmare. U.S. health insurance premiums will jump an
Both Trump and Clinton would continue the power grab ANALYSIS/OPINION: The 2016 election campaign is mortifying millions of Americans in part because the presidency has become far more dangerous in recent times. Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have lived in a perpetual emergency, which supposedly justifies routinely ignoring the law and Constitution. And both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have
