POTUS

Trump’s Steam Catapult Order Is Ego Over Expertise

A presidential directive signed Thursday will cost the American public billions of dollars, make aircraft carriers harder to run, and require more sailors to operate systems the Navy itself says…

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$4 Gas and a ‘Wall of Steel’: Trump’s Iran War Is Making You Pay at the Pump

At $4 a gallon, the average American is paying the highest price for mid-August ever recorded. This spike isn't a market accident but a direct result of Trump's Iran war,…

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The Empire That Invented Drones Forgot to Build Any

The United States military, which pioneered unmanned aerial vehicles, recently sent 3,700 troops to a training exercise in Germany where they were defeated so thoroughly and so quickly by Ukrainian…

Courts

Trump’s Kennedy Center Board Defies Federal Judge to Slap His Name Back on the Building

A federal judge told Donald Trump to take his name off the Kennedy Center. The board he installed replied: what if we just put it back in smaller letters? That…

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The Navy Is Swapping Carriers Because Sailors Are Trying to Jump Overboard

The USS George Washington is being dispatched to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, a move that comes after months of documented crew suffering and a pattern of institutional denial that…

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Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close Main Building and Restore Trump’s Name

The Kennedy Center board held a vote Thursday that it did not announce, on an agenda it did not distribute, over a Zoom call it did not make public. The…

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Another Carrier Heads to the Gulf While the Last One’s Crew Tried to Jump Overboard

The Pentagon is sending the USS George Washington to the Middle East, and if you read the official framing, this is a routine rotation, a scheduled relief, a perfectly ordinary…