The most bitter dispute over the Nunes memo involves Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. This might seem odd since the memo, published last week by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes (R. Calif.), does not address the Mueller investigation. Rather, it homes in on potential abuses of foreign-intelligence-collection authorities by Obama-era Justice Department and FBI officials, said to have occurred many months before Mueller was appointed ...
The most bitter dispute over the Nunes memo involves Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. This might seem odd since the memo, published last week by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes (R. Calif.), does not address the Mueller investigation. Rather, it homes in on potential...
Well, it’s now happened. The great scandal of the modern Catholic Church — its tolerance for clergy who abuse children, and its laxity when dealing with bishops who themselves tolerated or...
The 45 words of the First Amendment fit well within Twitter’s 280-character limit. Those words are what make the very concept of Twitter possible in the first place. And although I may...
In an outrage and scandal-driven news cycle, it’s easy to lose sight of the truly significant stories. Let’s talk memos, for example. The past five days have been dominated by discussion of two...
Washington Post opinion columnist Elizabeth Bruenig published an intriguing piece this morning that criticizes a new paid-family-leave plan being promoted by Ivanka Trump and Senator Marco...
Editor’s Note: A version of this piece originally appeared in Arc Digital. It is reprinted with permission.
Americans want foreign military campaigns to go smoothly: Deploy, sacrifice, win,...
As President Trump finished his first full year in office, he could look back at an impressive record of achievement of a kind rarely attained by an incoming president — much less by one who...
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