President Trump’s mission to create a Space Force appears to have flown too close to reality on wings made of bullshit. Defense One reported on Wednesday that after months of frantically trying to figure out how to establish a new branch of the military dedicated to space-based operations, the Pentagon …
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John Oliver ended Last Week Tonight’s fifth season laying out grim indications that global authoritarianism is on the rise.Authoritarian leaders gain power by perpetuating their own strength, creating popular enemies by demonizing marginalized groups and dismantling institutions. And, Oliver argues, these trends are growing in countries such as Russia, China, …
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A bipartisan commission has determined that President Trump’s recent record defense bill is insufficiently massive to keep America safe, and we should spend more, while cutting “entitlements.” The National Defense Strategy Commission concluded the Department of Defense was too focused on “efficiency” and needed to accept “greater cost and risk” …
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In an interview with the Hill on Tuesday, President Trump reiterated his criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Attacks on Sessions have become Trump’s “Free Bird,” and on Tuesday he improvised the old standard, declaring, “I don’t have an Attorney General. It’s very sad.” The president’s well-documented, frequently declared disappointment …
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Jimmy Fallon parodied Donald Trump on Wednesday’sTonight Show, satirizing the president’s pushback againstBob Woodward’s new book Fear. The work, which looks inside the Trump administration, has generated some very clear criticism from the White House, who have been working to discredit the journalist’s efforts. “Tonight I’d like to talk about …
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When Tom Arnold opens the big wooden door of his house in Beverly Hills on a Tuesday in late spring, he’s wearing a blue T-shirt with a Superman “S” logo on it. On the floor behind him is a pink, toddler-size Minnie Mouse car, property of his two-year-old daughter, Quinn. …
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Michael Cohen has had a lot of time to think since April 9th, the day federal agents raided his office, apartment and hotel room. For the past few months, Donald Trump’s former legal counsel and “fixer” has been holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, presumably mulling over whether to …
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Few were surprised that Trump bungled his much-hyped summit with Kim Jong-un. And, as expected, the president emerged from Singapore singing the praises of the North Korean dictator, as he has done after meeting with other authoritarian leaders around the world. What’s mind-boggling is the extreme degree to which Trump …
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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee has released a 2,500-page trove of testimony related to Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. The report containsa 224-page transcript of an interview with Donald Trump Jr. about his June 2016 meeting with a delegation of Russian and Russian-connected figures. The testimony, which …
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John Oliver criticized President Trump‘s “clearly terrible idea” of arming public school teachers in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shootingon Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. “There are clearly multiple issues with the idea of arming teachers – from the fact that it is not their job to the fact …
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