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Mar 02 2022
Perspectives Blog
Should NATO be Reformed, and What Role Can the US Play?
This blog is written by multiple authors of different perspectives, and published on DividedWeFall.org (Mixed media bias rating).
Argument 1: Europe’s Defense Against Russia is, and Should Remain, NATO’s Core MissionBy Steven Pifer – Research Fellow, Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
In 1991, some 50 years
Divided We Fall (author)
Dec 18 2020
News
Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings
Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.
The latest: Biden transition director Yohannes Abraham contradicted the Pentagon's official response to this story on Friday afternoon, telling reporters, "Let me be
Axios
Feb 17 2021
News
Federal agents seize more than 10M fake N95 masks
Federal authorities have seized millions of fake N95 masks over the past few weeks and are notifying healthcare workers and others about the phony protective equipment.
Homeland Security Department agents captured hundreds of thousands of fake 3M brand masks intercepted on Wednesday at a warehouse on the East Coast, the latest operation in an expansive federal investigation into the
Washington Examiner
Oct 28 2020
Opinion
Don't Freak Out About the Election
Worried about Tuesday?
Remember: The most important parts of life happen outside politics.
Love, friendship, family, raising children, building businesses, worship, charity work—that is the stuff of life! Politicians get in the way of those things. But despite the efforts of power-hungry Republicans and Democrats, life gets better.
You may not believe that. Surveys show
Reason
Jan 29 2021
News
Biden Will Launch Family Reunification Effort Next Week — After Promising To Start It On Inauguration Day
President Joe Biden plans to launch a task force aimed at reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration next week, despite initially promising to start this effort on his first day in office, a delay the White House blamed on the Senate not yet confirming a Department of Homeland Security leader.
Biden will sign an executive order creating this task force on Tuesday,
Forbes
Mar 05 2021
News
Republicans Demand Hearings on Border 'Crisis'
Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are demanding the panel conduct a hearing on what they say is a “crisis” at the southern border.
Their demand came in a Thursday letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., who chairs the committee, according to The Washington Times. The push for a hearing is being led by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the ranking Republican on the
Newsmax (News)
Jan 14 2021
News
Capitol assault: Why did police show up on both sides of ‘thin blue line’?
Police departments struggled last year to respond evenhandedly to racial-justice and pro-police protests. Now the Capitol attack has put a spotlight on sympathies within police ranks toward right-wing extremists.
In 40 years as an Appalachian cop, George Erwin Jr. came to this conclusion: Only “a thin blue line separates good from evil.”
But Mr. Erwin, the former sheriff of
Christian Science Monitor
Jun 17 2021
News
U.S. Jobless Claims Rose Last Week for First Time Since April
Applications for U.S. state unemployment insurance rose slightly for the first time since late April, likely a temporary blip for a labor market that’s otherwise improving as the economy reopens.
Initial claims in regular state programs increased by 37,000 to 412,000 in the week ended June 12, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists
Bloomberg
Feb 13 2020
News
Trump seeks to bend the executive branch as part of impeachment vendetta
President Trump is testing the rule of law one week after his acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial, seeking to bend the executive branch into an instrument for his personal and political vendetta against perceived enemies.
And Trump — simmering with rage, fixated on exacting revenge against those he feels betrayed him and insulated by a compliant Republican Party — is increasingly
Washington Post
Jan 28 2021
News
Biden signs executive action to reopen Obamacare enrollment amid COVID-19, end gag rule
President Joe Biden on Thursday took initial steps to expand health care coverage and reverse some of the policies of former President Donald Trump, including directing that people be given a new chance to sign up for government-subsidized care and lifting restrictions on abortion and family planning services.
Biden signed an executive order for the Department of Health and Human
USA TODAY