If the US wanted to be the world’s police officer, then why not try to be its doctor too? Just two months before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush announced an ambitious plan to pump $15 bi...
There’s an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how ...
Trump’s war in Iran is now bleeding through wholesale pipelines. The April Producer Price Index (PPI) report shows that wholesale prices rose 6% over the past year, the largest annual increase s...
GOP unity over the Iran war started to crack Thursday when Sen. Susan Collins of Maine voted with Democrats to halt the conflict, marking the first time a Republican has changed their vote on the mili...
Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows that prices rose 3.3% over the past year in March. Prices jumped by 0.9% in the past month alone. The rise in prices was largely driven by the ene...
The focus of the US-Iran war — and now the negotiations over the US-Iran ceasefire — has shifted to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, to such an extent that the main original justification for t...
“There will never be anything like it!!!” The message continued. “Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll live in hell – just watch! Thank God. President Donald Trump....
“Price indices in all commodity groups – cereals, meat, dairy products, vegetable oils and sugar – rose to varying degrees, reflecting not only underlying market fundamentals but also responses to ris...
When the U.S.-Israel war with Iran began a month ago, the tragic potential reverberations of past conflicts echoed quickly for Virginia state Del. Dan Helmer, who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and ...
