Category: Politics
New Press Corps at White House
by Rick Perlstein | Apr 3, 2017 | PoliticsWith so many garish spectacles to feast your eyes on at the 33-ring Trump circus, some clowns are easy to miss. Especially the ones performing in proximity to Sean Spicer. Pry your eyes away from the Pagliacci of the Pressroom for a moment, however, and look hard at some of his supporting buffoons. They may […]
Preparing for the Orange Menace in South Texas
by Aaron Cantú | Mar 29, 2017 | PoliticsIn the Rio Grande Valley, the southernmost part of Texas where around 1.3 million people live, President Trump’s January 25 Executive Order on border security and immigration came down like a sledgehammer, with subsequent policies landing like overkill. The mid-February Department of Homeland Security directives that followed have local organizers afraid that, for the first […]
The New Alien Exclusion Act
by Lou Dubose | Mar 23, 2017 | National Security, PoliticsWhen you have so many immigrants being admitted, they tend to cluster together, they tend to maybe be a bit more slow in learning the English language, to becoming acculturated, to becoming patriotic Americans,” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) told NPR reporter John Burnett in early February. Smith has been a genteel nativist for decades, but […]
The Russian Connections
by Hannah Gais | Mar 21, 2017 | Election 2016, Foreign Policy, PoliticsThe House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee’s Monday hearing on Russian electoral interference was a five-hour Q&A session featuring FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers. There will likely be more hearings in months to come, but this one didn’t provide many titillating details. (Or, to put it another way, no, the piss […]
The Russians Have Won the Arms Race
by Scott Ritter | Mar 20, 2017 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOn October 26, 2016, amid the hubbub of a rancorous American presidential election that dominated the headlines, an event took place in Russia that escaped the attention of those not otherwise involved in monitoring the esoteric world of strategic weapons research and development. This event, a test of a ballistic missile carrying a payload known […]
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