Most presidents can’t be directly blamed for gas prices going up. This one is the exception.
America and the World
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Killing Kids in Iran While Kids in the U.S. Go Hungry
For the money the U.S. is spending on war with Iran, it could be covering food stamps for 41 million people or Medicaid for 16 million people.
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What Does Trump Think ‘Regime Change’ Looks Like?
Trump’s aim to eradicate the Iranian regime seems for now an unlikely scenario.
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A Brief History of America’s Involvement in Iran
For many younger Americans, this is the first U.S. war in the Middle East. Here’s how we got here.
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Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance
Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.
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Whatever It Takes
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to cling to power.
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Trump’s Senseless Waste in Iran
Aircraft carriers and stealth bombers are expensive to use.
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The Blowback From an Unpopular Iran War
Trump’s Iran campaign may have the surprising effect of putting foreign policy back into the hands of American voters.
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In Memoriam: Britain’s Labour Party
Labour’s move away from its working-class roots and to the right cemented its political demise.
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Iraq, Iran, Irate
Saddam Hussein and Iran’s ayatollahs were horrendous leaders who inflicted horrors on their subjects, but neither posed a threat to the United States, despite claims that both were developing nuclear weapons.