Tag: Middle East

Jared Kushner Can’t Answer Basic Question About Trump’s Racism

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling the failed real estate developer’s Middle East peace plan “unexecutable”

The Trump Administration Is Thirsty for War, Intelligence Be Damned

The United States is goading Iran into taking action so it can justify an invasion

Women of Kuwait: Photos by Maha Alasaker, Words by Nada Faris

‘Hotel Mumbai’ Creates Entertainment Out of Horrific Real-Life Tragedy

Hollywood adapts the brutal events that transpired over three days in November 2008 in Mumbai into an uneasy blend of fact and fiction

How Trump’s Swamp Works Now

The new Washington, D.C., is awash in foreign money and shady lobbyists — and Elliott Broidy fits right in

We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends

Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war

Sen. Chris Murphy’s Lonely Quest to End the War in Yemen

The Connecticut senator on the U.S. role in yet another disastrous war in the Middle East, our 'head-scratching' ties with Saudi Arabia, and the Khashoggi case

Protests Erupt Across Iran: What You Need to Know

Amid high stakes, it's a crisis that the United States ought to stay out of

Trump Administration: Tillerson Out, Hawks In?

Trump's national security team looks like it's about to get a lot more warlike

New Drone Strikes Underscore, Again, How Much Power We Give Trump

Americans rolled over for decades while we gave the executive branch unreviewable authority to kill – now that power is in the hands of an idiot