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Will TV Networks Air Trump’s Speech?
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (360+ words) President Trump is delivering a prime-time address on Thursday, but where the speech will air live on traditional television remains an open question. Neither ABC nor NBC is planning to pre-empt regularly scheduled entertainment programming at 9 p.m. when Mr. Trump speaks....
Washington Needs to Account for Its Bad Wars
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (304+ words) Donald Trump is conducting a real-world test of what happens when hawks in Washington get what they’ve been urging for decades: all-out war with Iran. Despite this economic and human toll, the war has achieved very little. While the president…...
How to think about the Iran war — and what it means for oil and stocks
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (552+ words) Yes, an end to the Iran war remains elusive – but that doesn’t mean investors should wait around for it. What if talks fail? Won’t inflation skyrocket? Shouldn’t I wait for this to pass before buying stocks? Those are key questions…...
Is Trump Tuned Out to Americans’ Financial Worries? A Remark Suggests Yes.
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (501+ words) President Trump has never been a fuzzy, feel-your-pain kind of politician. That came through in an especially striking way yesterday, when he answered a question about whether he was motivated by the financial situation of Americans to make a deal…...
Iran War Looms Over Vance as He Visits Iowa
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1221+ words) As JD Vance neared the end of his Iowa debut as vice president Tuesday — a state more freighted with presidential expectations than any other — he felt compelled to recount one last emotional story. Mr. Vance had just met two Gold…...
21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (1360+ words) After more than 16 straight hours of closed-door meetings that stretched into early Sunday morning, Vice President JD Vance ambled into an ornate ballroom in Pakistan and let out a sigh. When he arrived at the lectern to speak to the…...
Vance, who wasn’t keen on Iran war, now tasked with trying to end it
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1246+ words) Six weeks after President Donald Trump started a war in Iran that has proved difficult to end, he has turned to a new approach in negotiations: Putting front and center his vice president, JD Vance, whose reputation happens to be…...
Trump quietly offloading Iran failure on Vance ‘sensing the war’s unpopularity’: analysis
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (288+ words) A war launched by President Donald Trump to weaken Iran may instead reshape his own political legacy – and hand a high-stakes dilemma to Vice President JD Vance, according to a new analysis in The Atlantic. “Although Trump had hoped to…...
Tako? Takou? TACO-ru? Decoding the Trump TACO meme around the world.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (820+ words) SEOUL — I arrived at my health checkup on Wednesday morning with a list of questions. It turned out my doctor, who knows I’m an American journalist, had a question too: “What is the Korean translation for ‘chicken out’ — as in…...
Americans deserve answers about civilian casualties in Iran
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (415+ words) We’ve seen this pattern before. A U.S. missile strike. An initial statement emphasizing precision. Then, later, reports that civilians — including many children — were among the dead. In Afghanistan, through the early and mid-2000s, these reports came so often they formed a…...