Twenty-four hours after swearing on camera that he had never thought of leaving Brazil, the country's defeated presidential candidate was gone, and the United States had already promised him a visa. "…
For eighty years, an American military base was a promise: power that could not be touched. Now the Pentagon is quietly asking how to make its buildings disappear. "Every major military installation i…
In March, an unnamed FBI employee wrote down exactly what would happen. In January, it happened. "I am concerned that the rush deadline on the project, for no discernable (sic) reason, will lead to mi…
A statute of limitations is supposed to be a wall. This week, the Department of Justice treated it like a suggestion, and filed its charges on the last day the law allowed. "Well, they're back again. …
The war is in its eighth month, the pump is at record prices, and the president who started it just confessed, in a whisper, exactly who "we" is when "we're" making a fortune. "I don't give a damn, I'…
A coup failed once. Now the coup family is asking a court to make an election fail too. "If a conservative government in Brazil did this, everyone in the mainstream press in America would lose their m…
The voter fraud is a ghost. The armed agents at the doors are real. "They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!" — President Donald Trump, after Los Angeles County refused to run a 20,000-n…
A 48-year-old man from El Salvador was found dead in a Georgia detention warehouse with a ligature around his neck, and the agency that held him counted his death as number sixty. "When our country de…
The defense secretary wanted a piece of history in his office, and his staff delivered it in pieces. "Hegseth is no Ike. The globe won't give him Ike's attributes of humility, intellect, and judgment.…