No bang, no whimper, no victory.
November 17, 2020President-Elect Joe Biden is now 5.6 million votes ahead of Trump in the popular vote, with 50.9% of the vote to Trump’s 47.3%. And yet, Trump continues to maintain he won the election.
November 12, 2020Today President-Elect Joe Biden named his chief of staff. He has picked Ronald A. Klain, 59, a veteran Democratic operative with degrees from Georgetown and Harvard Law School, who has worked in and around Washington, D.C., since 1987, when he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Klain was Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president.
- June 27, 2020
This evening, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both broke extraordinary news. Months ago, American intelligence officials concluded that during peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan, a Russian military intelligence group offered to Taliban-linked fighters bounties for killing American troops. They paid up, too, although it is unclear which of the twenty US deaths happened under the deal. But this wasn't breaking news for the National Security Council.
August 23, 2017Continued military presence in Afghanistan may not be the best way to protect the US.
May 10, 2017Never has a society spent more for less.
April 21, 2017Trump's wars are now all over the map. The peace movement can fight back by joining already thriving intersectional campaigns.
November 29, 2016Trump loves to win, but American generals have forgotten how.
September 9, 2016We have our precision weaponry, and terrorist groups have theirs.
