The Pentagon Just Gave up the Pretense of Deterring Conflict
U.S. Department of Defense Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a shift that defied twenty years of precedent, the US Department of Defense changed the mission statement on its website recently. Instead of using its 2 million staff members to “deter war,” as has been its stated mission since the Clinton administration, the department will “provide…
Trump’s Trade War Is Hurting Red-State Farmers—and Ripping Their GOP Senators Apart
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), left, is clashing with Trump over trade policy.Bill Clark/ ZUMA, Evan Golub/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having yet again teed up a multi-front trade war with the United States’ biggest agricultural trading partners—Mexico, China, Canada, and the European Union—President Donald Trump’s agricultural policy team is talking tough.…
The Secret Stash of Soviet Street Photographer Masha Ivashintsova
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The “photograph of the missing being…will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.” —Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Last year, Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan and her husband were renovating their house near St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly, Leningrad), when they stumbled in the…
What Canada Can Teach Trump About Milk
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The recent G-7 meeting ended in chaos, with President Donald Trump trading zingers with his better-haired rival, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So now the United States is on the verge of a multi-front trade war, featuring Europe, China, and our erstwhile friendly neighbor, Canada. And Trump…
Fox News Calls Trump a “Dictator” Ahead of North Korea Summit
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has quite the record for raising eyebrows with his frequent praise of the world’s most notorious dictators and strongmen, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. It’s a curious habit coming from the leader of the free world that,…
Trump’s Chief Economic Adviser Says Justin Trudeau “Stabbed Us in the Back”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of “betrayal,” after Trudeau defended Canada against Trump’s proposed tariffs and announced that he would be moving forward with retaliatory measures against the US. “He was polarizing,” Kudlow said during a Sunday…