An “experienced analyst” at the National Security Agency ran an illegal surveillance project that involved “unauthorized targeting and collection of private communications of people or organizations in the US.” The agency’s inspector...
“Hereby it is manifest,” Thomas Hobbes wrote in 1651’s Leviathan, “that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war as is of every man against every...
Nearly three months into the war Ukraine, events upended quite a few assumptions by quite a few people. I count myself in that crowd.I didn’t expect Vladimir Putin to order the invasion.When he did, I expected it to go the way of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War...
“Today’s inflation report,” US president Joe Biden told us on March 10, “is a reminder that Americans’ budgets are being stretched by price increases and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price...
In the fog of war, it’s difficult to tell which claims are true and which aren’t. What are Vladimir Putin’s forces up to in Ukraine? Apart from some high points (real or media-manufactured), it’s often hard to tell.Even when we think that the...
“The will of the people has been heard,” said President Joe Biden in his inaugural address on January 20, “and the will of the people has been heeded.” Later in the speech, Biden told us that “the American story” depends on...
Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River church in Tampa, Florida, strongly believes that God wants his church to continue holding live services for hundreds of parishioners even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister and...
The US Navy confirms that three online videos showing two military air encounters with what it calls “unexplained aerial phenomena,” and the rest of us call “unidentified flying objects” are authentic, Popular Mechanics reports.The videos are...
Camera One, pointed at The Atlantic: America Scrambles to Catch Up With Chinese and Russian Weapons Camera Two, pointed at Wikipedia: The missile gap was the Cold War term used in the US for the perceived superiority of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in...
Unless you live under a rock (and probably even if you do), you’ve noticed the death of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States, on November 30, at age 94.You’ve probably also suffered through multiple personal remembrances of the...
