Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general of the United States on Monday, completing a contentious 50-49 Senate confirmation that exposed a fundamental tension at the heart of American democratic governance: can a man who spent years as Donald…
A new survey has put a number on something many political observers have long suspected: American voters increasingly see the national parties as ideological outliers, even as they view their own candidates — the people they actually vote for —…
A memo landed quietly in the inboxes of WNBA team executives last Friday. By the time it circulated publicly, it had already become a flashpoint in one of the most charged debates in American sports. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent…
The Trump administration has renewed its legally dubious effort to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, sending her a letter threatening dismissal over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud — allegations that legal experts and available evidence…
The tankers keep moving — for now. But for how long, and under whose rules, is precisely what diplomats in Tehran, Muscat, and Washington have been racing to settle. Iran and Oman are on the verge of finalizing a shipping…
Senator Susan Collins of Maine announced Tuesday that she will vote against President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, making her the first Senate Republican to publicly oppose the pick and leaving Blanche with almost…
A Real-Time Attack on Critical Infrastructure Water systems in at least seven states have been compromised in a coordinated cyberattack attributed to Iran, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow warned Monday — and the timing is no coincidence. The Trump administration has spent…
A Nation Baking: South Korea’s Record-Breaking Heat At 1:26 in the afternoon on Sunday, a thermometer in the southeastern South Korean city of Yangsan climbed to 42.5 degrees Celsius — 108.5 degrees Fahrenheit — and kept going. That single reading,…
Norman Dixon’s Classic Study of Failed Leadership Has Found Its Most Vivid Modern Subject Norman F. Dixon published On the Psychology of Military Incompetence fifty years ago as an attempt to explain a distinctly British affliction: why the nation’s armed…
When Peter Foukal published his letter in the Boston Globe arguing that the scientific community had “brought Trump’s funding threat on itself” by straying from pure research into what he called “advancing a social agenda,” he articulated a view that…