President Trump's intelligence director is revoking the security clearances of more than three dozen former and current officials on claims they "abused the public trust" by manipulating or politicizing intelligence.
Of all Iranian diaspora leaders, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the ousted shah, has the greatest legitimacy. He has name recognition, and even those Iranians who supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution look upon the monarchy as the golden age before sanctions, war, and corruption hobbled the country. Iranians recognize that their grandparents had better living […]
President Donald Trump is known to be fond of shiny objects. On Wednesday, Aug. 6, in the Oval Office, Apple CEO Tim Cook sought to sway Trump against tariffing his company’s imports with a gold and glass plaque inscribed just for him. Impressed by the gift as Trump clearly was, a more consequential shiny object […]
The White House last week informed Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, that it’s putting the museums under review — in other words, adult supervision. The news came in a letter that amounted to a major front in the Trump administration’s war to retake the culture. As I wrote in an X post […]