This Exceptional Novel Was Pecked Out on a Prison Typewriter by an Iraq Veteran Turned Bank Robber
A Medevac crew near Tikrit, Iraq, November 2005.Jacob Silberberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The author page reads simply, “Nico Walker lives in Kentucky. Cherry is his first novel.” Walker, 33, wanted it that way. What the bio doesn’t say is that his Kentucky abode is a federal prison. Or…
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 Just Blew Past Two Deadlines for Reporting How Many Civilians The US Kills
Smoke rises from Mosul, Iraq, following a US-led coalition airstrike in February 2017. Khalid Mohammed/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, the same day that 23 civilians were killed in suspected US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria, the Trump administration missed two deadlines for reporting civilian casualties from Ameican military…
Why the Scooter Libby Case—and Trump’s Pardon—Really, Really Matter
Scooter Libby outside federal court after his 2007 conviction.Gerald Herbert/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We should have seen this coming. More than a decade ago, I. Lewis Libby—a.k.a. Scooter—was convicted in federal court of lying to a grand jury and to the FBI and of obstructing justice. Libby had…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…