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The FBI treated Hillary Clinton and her coterie like royalty worthy of endless deference, according to a 2018 report by the Justice Department Inspector General. The FBI agreed to destroy the laptops of top Clinton aides after a limited examination of their contents (including a promise not to examine any post-January 31, 2015, emails or content). When Clinton aides used BleachBit software and hammers to destroy email evidence under congressional subpoena, the FBI treated it as a harmless error. Читать дальше...

The kindest thing that could b said about Jeff Bezos slashing the slashing the staff by over a third – that’s over 300 jobs—with more to come, is that this is a dilettante retailer whose wealth is estimated this year at $230–$266 billion who got bored with playing media tycoon and decided to spend more More

Among the critical issues facing our country today, nuclear arms control is seldom top of mind for most people, understandably, given our myriad political, social and economic crises. Recent books and films such as Annie Jacobsen’s 2004 non-fiction tome Nuclear War: A Scenario and last fall’s A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, garnered More

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum on January 20 was not an exercise in pique. It was the clearest articulation yet of a strategic shift that has profound implications—not just for U.S.-Canada relations, but for the entire structure of American alliances worldwide. Carney told the Davos audience that “the old More

Since the US-Israeli takeover of TikTok, there have been endless complaints about censorship, banned content and banned content creators. Some are saying the platform isn’t even allowing viewers to type in the letters “ICE.” Others have said that the word “Israel” pops up in any search, regardless of the topic. And any search for the More

New York is rolling out one of the most ambitious universal child care expansions in the country. The plan promises free or heavily subsidized care for young children, but the program’s success will depend on significant federal funding that is far from a sure thing. The Trump administration just moved to freeze billions of dollars in federal More

Senate Democrats scored a victory on Friday by passing a compromise budget bill with Republican support, funding all major departments, including Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Defense, Labor, and Transportation. But he Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was included in a separate bill, a continuing resolution (CR), that maintained the department’s current More

A fading empire, like a wounded narcissist facing decline, is a dangerous animal. “…fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.” The things of the world that a narcissist cannot exploit, dominate, and control a narcissist will attempt to destroy. Facing collapse from inner More

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including from vehicles and fossil fuel power plants, endanger public health and welfare. The decision, known as the endangerment finding, was based on years of evidence, and it has underpinned EPA actions on climate change ever since. The Trump administration now wants More

Since the American War on Vietnam, Bangkok has been a key hub for international journalists and academics in Southeast Asia. It offers modern infrastructure, easy travel, and a high quality of life, allowing them to chopper into the periphery and return home for drinks. These advantages foster a professional environment removed from the region it More

There are more than 700,000 state and local law enforcement officers. There are tens of thousands more who work for agencies like the FBI, the National Parks, and the Treasury Department. Except on rare occasions, like a SWAT raid on a drug gang, almost none of these officers cover their faces and hide their identities. More